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)
本来是想当做黑帮犯罪类型的饭片来看的。但这个“英国绅士式”絮叨+舞台剧，看着有点点闷。弗朗西斯这个角色塑造的差点意思。选角吧，感觉都差点意思，没演出剧本的张力。整体一般。
让男主的气定神闲显得非常悬浮
四点五星，很棒的电影，精良制作朴实无华，哪怕不是演北野武的故事，也不失为一部上佳的片子，演员演技炸裂毫不做作，自然得丝毫不露痕迹，很多动人的小情节，数度感动，非常值得一看，推荐推荐。
剧情推动全靠各种巧合叠加
怪不得北野武这么喜欢踢踏舞，总是和我所知的北野武有些违和
精彩啊，Mark Rylance的掌控力太强了，神演技。非常精彩的室内戏和文戏，时长也把握的很克制。你大爷永远是你大爷。
剧场感太强烈了，这种剧情紧凑又张弛有度的室内戏我好爱。
这么来说，老爷子年纪大了很多惊世骇俗的言论，到底是发自内心呢，还是谐星本能呢？
一个精彩绝伦的计划一出自导自演的戏，把所有人都蒙在鼓里，一个人沉默的欣赏着也在表演着。
大泉洋和影帝的演技确实不错，感觉片子里对“搞笑”的价值观和北野武几次访谈里表达的十分一致：做最认真的事情别人却觉得好笑；搞笑并不是要努力去“如鱼得水”，而是就要成为“鱼”，不游泳就死了，而不是让人感觉“努力”，那就是有负担的搞笑了。很cool。剧团一人有点厉害了。
除了一些詭異段落剪接，其他都很好，以為再講北野武，其實再講北野武的師父，比想像中好看很多，很多細節。
BEsboke
虽然反转自然也聪明，但捱不过前半段实在太拖沓，最后想鼓掌可拍不下去手。
越美好的过去，回味起来反而越心酸。对过去的怀念，遗憾，师傅的照顾与教导，都会被时间裹挟着冲淡。
"I'm not a tailor, I'm a cutter."
佐伊达奇这么美为什么华纳Batgirl不选她!!
第一次get到马克·里朗斯出神入化的演技。除此之外，剧情啊就真的非常一般。
精巧的单场景悬疑故事，并不烧脑，却因为角色需要在各个势力间周旋而颇为有趣，算是一个不错的小品之作。
忍不住又要引用银河映像《暗花》的台词：“用得着怕什么洪先生呢？一个几十年没回过澳门的老家伙，能狠到哪里去。他要是真这么厉害，我都想见见他......" 最后几分钟匕首🗡️和剪刀✂️的对峙戏男主的一番话，和柯南伯格《暴力史》维果莫腾森的遭遇不是一毛一样嘛......敢阻碍杀手从良那就只能以暴制暴一招致命。
6.0；北野武师徒情，很真挚的感情。一大败笔是年轻的北野武也面部抽搐，这明明是他90年代车祸面瘫的后遗症啊。不过最后老年版北野武的化妆惊到我了，达到以假乱真的地步。
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