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)
夕阳晚照，老爷子的心境吧。不过，这种美国老头把墨西哥孩子带回美利坚与家人重逢的戏码好像有点多，比如说连姆尼森的神枪手。
虽然明显垂垂老矣，但那种对电影和风格的坚持，还是让人愿意看下去。老头子真的太厉害。
老牛仔的告别诗
看了三分之一……墨西哥小演员实在是太一般，伊斯特伍德要配合他，本来91岁高龄都有点演不动了……两人几乎是尬演……台词生硬。故事线ok，但各方面都不足，甚至略显业余。伊导是91岁的老头了😭可怕他摔倒了…
其实他还健康的偶尔拍拍东西，我们就该感恩了不是吗，这就足够了。
情节偏简单，小男主演技也青涩，老爷子精神矍铄
“I can’t cure old” 但是电影可以 老爷子硬硬朗朗的
啊？从什么时候开始，在东木的电影里，“男子汉”气概这三个字，是用嘴说出来的啊？？ 全程萎靡颓废
92岁时你会在做什么？克林特伊斯特伍德还在制作拍摄并主演着自己的电影。
东木老爷子依然创作力旺盛，可也想着休息咯～
东木老爷子还这么敬业，虽然剧情上有些跳跃吧，后面女主虽然是墨西哥的，但是作为寡妇那么多年，也太主动了点吧。。。
剧情、音乐其实真的可以的。实在是…小男孩演技尴尬，前半段节奏不够紧凑。可以说因为还小，但东木这次也太宽容了。
老头没了年轻的锐气，好在脾气仍在。macho表演满分。
09.23.21 Respect, Eastwood in his 90s, make me think of the the former Cap America. Whole life macho, serene eternity is all that cry for.
美墨边境风景美如画，非常温柔的公路片，老爷子美美的黄昏恋了一把。哪怕是替身骑上马的瞬间也让我心潮澎湃了一把永远的cowboy任谁都要夸句macho！🐔演技奇佳可以参演鲁尔福的《金鸡》
片名应该是猛男落泪？一生牛仔。还是比不了以前的老爷车和完美的世界啊。
猛男鸡反转那段处理的有点过于魔幻。老牛仔的戏有两点独特魅力，一个是慢一拍的反应，戏剧节奏拿的很稳，二是丰厚的经历，应对时处变不惊的态度
不得不说，剧本上实在是太糙了 ，各种剧情转折和人物动机都说不过去 ，但是作为东木的影迷，还能说什么呢，有一部看一部
非常温和的温情电影、看了很平静、老爷子老当益壮
完全不行，像支离破碎的幻灯片，又像幼稚的国产电影。
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
