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)
廉颇老矣 英雄迟暮
当放下对社会的观点和认知表达，老年人的浪漫和情怀成了我们眼中老套的故事。
东木老爷子还是那么cowboy
东木老爷子的这部，节奏和剧情发展上都有些随意有些散，想那拍那。多少有点让我想起他自己早些年那部凯文科斯特纳的《完美的世界》。不过，都这岁数了还能要求他什么呢，开心就好。拍一部少一部了。
一老一少，一段road trip，路上遇见的人都帮他们，女人爱主角，问题都能迎刃而解。不行，即便这是东木的，也不行。
东木暮年，让人唏嘘。希望老爷子能好好享受生活。
想起了不相关的Thomas Cromwell, “Most gracious Prince, I cry for mercy, mercy, mercy."
惊悚片一定不是，西部片也不是。如果你喜欢看Clint Eastwood的片子，看了后虽然觉得没那么好，也还是不太想骂街，谁知道为啥
温情 平淡 童话 美好
有点儿老年版完美的世界的意思 老年的更平和更温暖 也更自恋 经得起诱惑 把的住情感 既有牛仔的骄傲 也有迟暮的姿态 虽然整体上是拉夸了点 但东木还是很迷人的 那种老牛仔的气息
这部影片无论是从剪辑还是选角都是垃圾，几乎没有看点，叙事碎片，不连贯的观感就像是片儿汤，但毕竟是东木老爷子的电影，虽然已经能看出力不从心的感觉了，不过还是有些台词值得回味。
7.5/10，东木创造的温情时刻实在太动人了，相对于《骡子》而言甚至放弃了危机情形的设置。偶尔出现的“拦路者”不但被剧情轻松化解，而且成为了情感构建的“催化剂”，因此“哭泣的男人”比单纯的“strong”更具有力量。
影片最后东木关于硬汉的解说也许是对自己的总结吧。
东木依旧讲了一个我愿意看下去的故事，一个重复自己的故事，但这次，讲的不好。
一部很温馨的现代西部公路片，东木晚年拍给自己的电影吧，挺好的，住老爷子长命百百岁吧
老爷子依旧审视着，却无力辨析或施加什么，看看挺好。愿他平安。
其实他还健康的偶尔拍拍东西，我们就该感恩了不是吗，这就足够了。
东木老爷爷精神可嘉，不过衷心希望这部不会是您的息影之作啊。
平平无奇，单纯有的只剩点情怀，西部片还是混碟市吧
东木爷爷以90高龄再次自导自演，令人敬佩！影片充满了慈爱，所有戾气都已被岁月埋藏。
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