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)
没之前那么阴暗了，不过我喜欢Wednesday
91高龄的东木，年纪在那了，表演的状态很勉强，说说台词就够完成任务的样子。
我不知道怎么治愈老 但今晚你们也许应该睡一块儿 东木90岁还在拍片出片 我们哪有闲工夫泡妞
五星献给Marta，附带一星给大公鸡和保甲长。
真的很垃圾。。披着哥特外衣的普通动漫电影。。。剧情莫名其妙
不太好看，像是融了无数部电影，小黄人+超能陆战队+精灵旅社，反正和动画1还有两部真人的比起来差远了
只能说，91岁的东木不应该以这部片子作为结尾，光荣的一声应该有华丽的谢幕，这也不是完美的世界，仿佛低配版本的，一直觉得老爷子是美国传统精神的象征。再来一部，像科比一样谢幕吧。
不知道老爷子设定男主是多少岁，但看着他用龙钟的姿态钻进驾驶座，蹒跚地踮步做出拳击的架势，僵硬地拥着风韵美女，就不由得觉得真的人要服老才可以啊。
哈哈 这才是真Doctor Dolittle的的奇幻冒险
跟第一集问题一样，细节还成，但主线还是太不爱登士家庭了，
一直期待着劲爆场面，但通篇最暴力的竟然是一只鸡，哈哈。老头岁数大，不易，不知道怀抱大妞的时候，还有感觉吗。
后面有些无聊了 // Christmas movie marathon
7/10
想比第一部，这一部也还蛮有趣的。虽然故事情节和剧情安排通俗老套，但是闲暇之余看看还是蛮轻松欢快的！哈哈哈哈
带点哥特风的公路电影？！自我认同，家族认同的老把戏，整体乏善可陈。勉强可看。
91岁！🐮b的冬木老爷子！电影节奏其实有点像老爷子的行进脚步，缓慢且坚定，出其不意的时候可以给人一拳，停下来跳舞的时候充满了对爱与美的留恋。年青人选择踏进美利坚开始新生活，他则留在了如同幻梦一般的桃花源，finding new home是牛仔最好的归宿。曾几何时，我以为这才是真正的美国。
Wednesday明明那么聪明，竟然还被骗了…坏蛋boss也一下就被人猜到了，剧情一般，很多情节含糊不清一下就被跳过了…
就是不愿服老啊，他还知道，就是要做无谓的反抗。
公路+温情的题材是东木所擅长的，但整个故事过于不疾不徐，而且明显感到老爷子的力不从心，观众始终为其捏一把汗，更别提要把眼前这个孱弱的身体和昔日的牛仔形象联想到一起，千钧一发之际还是公鸡拯救了他们，确实有点想哭泣了。
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