Michael Hanake meets the Blair Witch Project in Kim Gok's Exhausted, a vicious kick in the pants to everyone in the audience, all in the name of "style." A man meets a mute woman, and as any reasonable person would do in such a situation, makes her his prostitute. But the pimping is the least of our problems. As we get exhausted by the grainy faux-16mm camerawork, the film gets increasingly deranged. The closest thing we get to a sympathetic character is the pimp, simply because he's got too much self-respect to fuck a mute whore. Everyone else is either a gory mess, or a gory mess in disguise. Even the prostitute, which even a thug like Lars von Trier would make likeable, comes off as a delirious scary woman whose shrieks strike like blows to the jugular.
Kim Gok has seemingly abandoned the Marxist critiques of his short films, going instead for mindless brutality which culminates in an endless bloody freak-show involving, among other things, a pair of scissors going where pairs of scissors should not go. In the middle of the bloodbath, we get an extended long take of the beaten prostitute's near-dead face, but it does not elicit sympathy or pity. In fact, images of the victim only make us shy away in shock. (Indeed, the extended sequence led to continuous walk-outs during the Pusan screening.) The long take invites us to stare, but it assumes we're as sadistic as the victimizer (and the film) is. Meanwhile the sound-effects (mostly a rumbling bassline that shakes the theater) pulsates with pure wickedness. With Hanake, shock creates reflection, which asks that we be critical. Here, we only want to escape. I suppose Exhausted has some virtues; the shots of drilling machines and factories provide a mesmerizing phallic backdrop to the pimp and prostitute's pursuits. But everything else hurts too much. At least Kim Ki-duk lets us breathe. Exhausted makes Bad Guy look like Lady and the Tramp. (asiaarts.ucla.edu)
熟悉的墨西哥，牛仔帽，神枪手老了，烟也不抽，一枪不开，拿东西手抖，马在围栏里，路上都是汽车
饒了老頭吧 講沒幾句就喘成那樣....... 還要他去救你兒子???
67/100。相较于《骡子》《理查德·朱维尔的哀歌》这两部还带有一定指向性的前作来说，克林特·伊斯特伍德在本片中则完全褪掉了对社会现象的自我认知，而转成了一个耄耋之年的老人与生活达成的某种自我和解。很多可能在他年轻时的电影中变得“刺激”“惊险”的桥段被磨平了所有棱角，只剩下一种淡淡的温柔思索，让人窥见了暮年英雄心中最静谧的一面。当然这样的处理方法一方面让人舒心，另一方面还是让全片显得有些不伦不类，让那些矛盾点变得来也匆匆、去也匆匆，只能远观，不能细看。
东木老爷子依然创作力旺盛，可也想着休息咯～
怎么变成糖水片了，故事编得也太敷衍。难道老了之后就会变成这样吗，返璞归真一片祥和，电影内外的情节发展构成互文了。
90岁的时候还在自导自演西部牛仔公路片,咱就别挑剔太多了,什么剧情温吞、台词过多、冲突不够…当你看到老爷子佝偻着身躯试图跟上年轻演员的脚步和节奏时,你就明白这有多难了…至于给自己安排的女人缘我就当做小说原著就是这样的吧(虽然没看过)…Respect...
失望！无与伦比的烂，开头交代人物背景的对白是如此的干涩和生硬的。伊斯特伍德的脸已经老到做不了表情了，再加上所有配角演员糟糕的表演。等着提名金酸梅吧
一老一少两个角色似乎都不缺少什么。
人生就像东木和小男孩在墨西哥边境小镇度过的那段美丽时光总是太短暂了。
俗套的治愈系公路片，小男孩，老人和小动物，有点菊次郎感。东木好温柔哦
哭泣的观众～美人和英雄晚年都不要再露面了～
Eastwood电影看一个少一个 很舒服温柔的西部片 去墨西哥找老板儿子拉菲回来的过程 结识小镇家庭 驯马医治动物
两倍速看完是个挺可爱温柔的故事 he版老爷车 哈哈哈
“老兵永不死，只是渐凋零”
老爷子九十多岁了依然还拍着，依然是那么细腻的情感。
老头没了年轻的锐气，好在脾气仍在。macho表演满分。
老人、孩子与鸡。一场乘着夕阳之光而行进的公路电影。东木年事已高，在他的创作中已十分明显，有着一种不愿面对纷杂纠葛的慈悲与和蔼。
东木老了，故事不再刚了，可是就为了最后车上那一段关于“硬汉被夸大”的对话，我再多一分情怀分
老爷车没油了，但还在路上
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