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)
舞台剧文本操办为电影化的成功典范，低成本小身材的大作为。狭小且局限的空间内，通过对白完成角色塑造，实现高效转场和运镜的教科书，每一次反转都逻辑自洽，尤其结尾的神来一笔。
ps.结尾暴击
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。
全部情節都在一間裁縫鋪裏發生，劇情一次又一次的反轉太驚艷了，老裁縫躲在暗處挑起猜疑的火苗，所有人都在他設好的局中起舞，不費一兵一卒的掌控才是真正優秀的計謀，老爺子的演技真的太絕了。。。
大体上很精彩，不用太多场面，却表现如此紧张扣人心弦的情节，厉害！不过磁带的部分，没有厘清，但还好不影响大情节。
非常优雅流畅，设计精妙，反转连连，演员张力很棒
独幕剧，非常jazz，剧本顺畅，这很学院派！
casino赚钱了么开始干扰人家法国人英国人了，还美其名曰什么照顾生意……
小成本电影 出场角色不多颇有舞台感 黑帮情仇 多方角力都在小空间里完成 完成度还挺高。
观感很像那种沉浸式话剧，看前20分钟的时候可以选个角色代入，只拿到任务是自己不死，其他一概不知只能随机应变。这样看下来还蛮有意思的。
很好的讲师徒的电影，最后的师傅照顾徒弟煽情有点过了，是北野武牛逼人生中的一段。
“有些事在哪里都一样，所以我在哪里并不重要，只要我有剪刀就行。”
是一部很平庸的励志剧，虽然我掉泪了但依然感觉到了技巧煽情有点过了，男主的老年妆有点像蜡像……
【另外，在短评里恶意剧透的“谋谋谋”是有什么问题吗？每看完一部悬疑片都要剧透？？？】
这是一个关乎追求 生活 梦想 现实的故事 那么真实 但是又那么理想 有一个好师父 真的很幸福
BEsboke
8/10.
反转地球～yoyoyo 咱就是说，这电影到底多省钱
和看梅艳芳的感觉一样，再多演绎都比不上本人一帧。比不上他拿破锣嗓子唱一句。啊，老头儿要过生日了。
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