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)
值得一看！江湖已远，但你大爷永远是你大爷！不要轻视你身边的每一个大爷。
一般，就最后干了一仗，发现是农夫与蛇的故事。一代代就这样教育，就这样苦哈哈，惨兮兮的，谁都得防着。说一堆有啥用？还不是又穷又没文化。
丘岭风光，沉着冷静的农民亨利，看起来，好。
好久没看过这么硬核的正统味道的西部片了，点赞
稳赢的局，后面非要中两枪加剧情，最后的死也是老套路了。
黑警柯里与萨姆匪徒一起合伙打劫银行，萨姆欲杀柯里灭口时，柯里抢走了钱袋……
吃惯了添加剂的新人类，突然间吃朴素的食物可能不习惯，所以他们要掀桌子……
典型的史诗级西部大片。人物很少，没有女人，只有硬汉群像，马，枪，人。剧情很少，虚拟了逃匿在西部农场的老比利小子，和他的儿子，救了一个人，引来一群人，解决完这群人后被反啮。对话很少，几处比较集中的对话，那不是拖沓，是时代的印记，穿插了邦尼的反思、少年的成长、往日的辉煌，值得咂摸。枪战很少，结尾的枪战无疑很出色，突出了历史上比利小子的拔枪速度、步履轻盈、心思缜密。过瘾。
信仰亦然躺平在元宇宙的黑海里。
3.5摄影不错，几处空镜头，增加了人物的气质和氛围。
稳赢的局，后面非要中两枪加剧情，最后的死也是老套路了。
6.5 当前：6.9 2021/10/21
不论节奏、剧情、人物都非常经典的西部片，能想到老亨利不是一般人，但谁又能想到老亨利居然就是比利小子呢
我居然……被這種……如此俗套的故事……感動了……
简简单单讲一个故事，很有美式西部片的味道，挺喜欢的
场景还可以。没什么情节起伏，就两场枪战。儿子的叛逆成长。跳着看了看。
有点装。坏人都得死，曾经的坏人也得死，看来老美也讲政治正确。
吃惯了添加剂的新人类，突然间吃朴素的食物可能不习惯，所以他们要掀桌子……
还可以吧，很多东西没交代背景，就那么说如何如何，有点单薄
我不相信救赎，但看着你抚育你这样的孩子让我觉得生命有意义。大概就是这么个意思吧。剧情不复杂，脉络清晰，不拖泥带水。唯一的不足是缺乏张力来弥补稍显单一的剧情。
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