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)
老爷车没油了，但还在路上
3星半，吉他配乐特别引人入胜，整个事件过于简单又顺利，基本说服不了观众的动机。美墨边境的混乱常态根本不值一提，少年一路上也省心，碰到的都是好人，大方的女老板、从天而降的车、以为是拦路虎却没什么用的警察。和以前的片子比，就是个流水账，不想说它是“童话”，可拍得很安然无恙又太过浅白。这西部片的配乐很符气质，虽然到处槽点也不至于很难过，看到这片，想着牛仔导演怎么还不退休。
简介有误吧。老牛仔去带孩子的原因是他还欠着农场主的人情，而农场主当初在墨国有以前妻名义投资的产业，现在农场主想以孩子要挟前妻才有了这个故事。
哪里惊悚了…平静的路程，温和的终点，和解的结局
永远的东木大爷，永远的电影人！“我不知道怎么治愈“老”，但今晚你们也许应该睡在一块儿”！老不是一种病，只是生命的一种状态，正确面对即可。
感觉这两年老爷子拍的电影全是他自己想体验或向往的生活 但这部片子老爷子的幻想太无趣了
这是一个真善美的儿童片吧？片头的pure American country music 倒是不错啊。
90多岁的老爷爷还在拍片，导演加主演...走路也很辛苦啊...
故事比较平淡，缓慢，老爷子90多还挺硬朗，女人见了都为之着迷，他也只想搂着女人跳跳舞。
廉颇老矣 英雄迟暮
东木老爷子还是那么cowboy
都91岁的老人家了，还有这么多美女喜欢，不比神仙还快乐？
90岁的Clint Eastwood，老当益壮。
我还是希望所有垃圾翻译都吃一辈子屎。 温馨公路片。不是什么惊悚西部。豆瓣简介也是吃屎人写出来的。 真是厌恶一切玩忽职守不负责任的人。
60分/东木老爷子的电影是真的看一部少一部了，毕竟以91岁的高龄作为导演兼主角，只有他能做到。
东木老先生还真是讲立场的人。片子不重要，立场才关键！
简单真挚，但确实很多漏洞，墨西哥警长一秒变好人，老板娘任劳任怨，太扁平了
老头没了年轻的锐气，好在脾气仍在。macho表演满分。
片子的气质，是晚年的老人的自我感动，脑中剩下对曾经的遗憾和意气风发的回望。
老了的东木太温柔了。观感就是淡淡的公路片，一片祥和美好，也许老了就可以更柔软的看这个世界。
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