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)
最近这种white privileged迷茫痛苦看多了，真是有点反胃
挺不错一部片子，被骗子给骗了，原来电影里说的，都是真的……
整体感受并不深，城市风光片谈不上，家庭伦理片更不行，不到一个半小时的观影，感觉时间都被偷走了。
自杀式的留白就更显得前面的小情小趣，就…蛤？
前面铺垫那么多，最后就这么算了？
评分有点低了，是因为节奏过慢？我倒是觉得很有意思，尤其是结局
单动式左轮在UZI面前毫无还手之力。女警和巴特勒也太耐打了，巴特勒居然没穿防弹衣都没死？
最后武士口花花，职业操守斯巴达，气球机枪打工人，肥佬黑警雷神锤，西部对决加班牛仔妹；小差馆大龙凤，再多来那么两三个赏金杀手就更完美了
安安静静中展现存在主义危机。墨西哥海岸非常美丽，搭配全副武装的巡逻士兵以及随时可能发生的枪击，很生猛写实。Tim Roth完美诠释出死鱼一样生无可恋的感觉，存在没有什么意义，存在就是荒诞。
倦怠、不明来由而难以驱散的倦怠、突如其来的变故与死亡也无法阻断的倦怠、神经质的病理的倦怠，想就这么耗费这时间这生命这世界、什么都不做。
看简介以为是中年男的中年危机片，看了之后果然是中年男的中年危机片——我最讨厌的genre。看了一半达到了我的中年白男阈值。
看不懂是因为对西方宗教的这些故事不了解，开头和结尾的雅典人书店穹顶名为《和平》的画已经说明了一切，作家用创世纪该隐同态报复法的故事暗示了女主是凶手，作家在教堂毫不掩饰的跟男主说泡了女主未成年的妹妹也是同态报复法的一个手段，也就是他在书店里解释新书的那一段话来证明了报复的正义性，即片名的天怒。说实话，最后这一幕是引起了我强烈的不适感的，别看这些人衣冠堂堂的，其实就是借着冠冕堂皇的借口来行一切毫无底线的恶（导演是不是在借机暗示宗角反思？），嗯，这又属于另一个范畴的问题了，如果在公开场合讨论这个问题我怕会被关小黑屋
黑岛结菜很美，几个月前被接吻场景骗来看，总的来说不太好看
开篇的叙事还不错，但进入中段就变得糟糕了，无意义的情节展示对人物性格的揭示毫无用处。难怪我不喜欢，原来用的加缪《局外人》的梗。《局外人》的哲学思考我认同，但人物刻画却很不合理。39分钟弃剧。
本来应该是弗兰克·格里罗和杰拉德·巴特勒的双雄戏，但格里罗确实表现的太弱了。亚历克西斯·拉奥特饰演的女警察竟也是BUG一样的存在。虽然我知道她那把银色大左轮手枪一定会派上用场，但没想到是在中弹失血那么久之后，整个人突然开挂。严格来说，巴特勒这次扮演的是“坏人”。他让警局真的“陷落”了。
what a gun shot...it's been a while not seeing intensive gunshot in some cop shop.
对平淡平常和心底的反叛的表现特别朴实到位真实无比
为了完成预设的情节反转，如此浪费时间真的是大可不必，米歇尔·弗兰克莫不如把狗血路线走到底，显然比这有趣太多。蒂姆·罗斯、夏洛特·甘斯布的优秀，是那种深陷粪坑也能绽放骄傲姿态的向阳而生。
@ Film Center, PFF 30. 很克制。最后的医院场不知道是解释还是延续，如果理解为后者会更好一点。
中二套路烂梗小聪明的大集合，而且还相当自以为是。
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