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)
在3和4之间。
保罗·施拉德数十年如一日地在扩展【出租车司机】的气质。马丁·斯科塞斯毕竟更会拍史诗一些，整体上还可以冷峻而不失叙事功能和环境描写。而不管是前作【第一归正会】还是本作，都沉溺在某种主角个人的气质里，用一生去与过去和解。不管这部整体上的可观看性上要好的多。PTSD还能找到新角度还蛮值得夸奖的。电影另外的有点还是因为选角，奥斯卡·伊萨卡早在【至暴之年】就证明了自己擅长这样沉静二复杂的角色。中年、西装、油头、不缺武力值的脑力派，每一个特质都很适合奥斯卡·伊萨克。
选了打德州扑克的作为切入点着实让人迷茫。关塔那摩ptsd，主线隐藏蛮深，最后复仇的结局让人懵逼。不过看完好一会儿，才感到，后劲很大。
赌场为障眼法，重要的是对两座监狱截然不同的描绘方式，创伤由此展示切口。片尾反在空间隔阂中，用指尖的相连扣了题，精彩。奥斯卡·伊萨克分外迷人。
救赎——一个稳定的母题，施拉德的每一部主角都是同一个男人的影子
玩玩牌，做做噩梦，写写回忆录，后半辈子就这样过吧。影像一如既往地冷漠疏离，只是这次疏得有点远。
是不是有点类似
要不是因为Issac 不至于看这片 太催眠了
整个事件就是环环相扣的系统性悲剧，看得令人无力。本来其实拍得很好，前半段的视听效果什么的都非常厉害，即trippy也让人好几次想起出租车司机。但是后劲无力，编入俗了，从某一个配乐很好的桥段开始慢慢走上了下坡路。男主角基本上独角戏吧，演得虽然看得出用力但是很优秀，男二不太行（又或许演太好？），完全没有什么存在感。想给四星但是扣一扣，因为女性角色都是工具人。
不过中间确实看困了
人生如牌局，男主的冷静与隐忍是为了做个社会化的“好人”，但没有正确释放的权欲和攻击欲最终都要找到一个宣泄的出口。导演的童年生活对心理影响应该挺大的。
还有这种类型的电影
又是一部故作玄虚的电影，没有什么精彩刺激的“算牌”对决，各种政治化的比喻让人无聊
7.5 导演拯救剧本。并非如通常般着重展现赌牌、监狱、报仇这样充满“男子气概”重头戏，转而聚焦情感的流动表达。
确实不是我喜欢的类型，还挺斯科塞斯的。最后高潮没推起来，男主以为自己被救赎了那里跟小孩一样表演出问题了
出租車司機變成了玩牌高手，失足少女變成了暴躁少年。主角對於救贖的認知和執行真是很上世紀的浪漫了。愛情線讓我滿頭問號。奧斯卡，好辣好辣。
why！！！！！！went through so many trouble for 伐木内
8.2/10 锋芒尽收，新旧表里被高度统一在数字摄影的迷离平面上，直至最后一个镜头定格在男性符号的隔断破除。今年最好的奥系电影（也当然与奥斯卡无缘）
不愧是奥斯卡爹地，穿老干部全套也还是如此性感。画面和故事都很极简，文本乏善可陈，说是算牌人但是算牌场景居然比平淡的对话还乏味。最后算是完成自我救赎了吗？只要内心重获平静，无论身在何处。
完全是因为男主来的……故事简单，明了，没有掩饰，却非常震撼人心。它讲述的是那么遥远的事情，但是男主的表演，让这个故事可信，
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