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)
平平淡淡，没有太多惊喜，失望也在预料之中——剧中人物的人生和剧情皆是如此。配乐值得一星，本本值得一星，最近喜欢这种没有太大起伏的温温情情片，所以再给两星。冲着本阿弗莱克看的，看到片尾字幕才知导演是乔治克鲁尼，他演这个图啥我能猜一猜，可他导这个图啥我就不知道了
应该是乔治克鲁尼的开山之作吧 ！jr自幼年就随母亲来到姥爷家蹭住 ，还有查理舅舅，直到jr上了耶鲁大学，依然全都住在姥爷家 ，有点让人无法接受 ！ 美国普通家庭温馨的一面 ，表现的不错 ，唯一缺憾是故事的梗不硬 ！
说不上来，其实有一个trick，但完全没有起到让人感到反转的作用。。。
结局也是理想化的 不过生活需要些理想化 另 大雄真的老了 岁月啊
淡淡的，蛮有味道的温情电影， 总比人造爆款好太多！ Ben Affleck 可塑性好强！
问题，乔治克鲁尼和安吉丽娜朱莉谁更没有导演才能？
里面一些玩闹的剪辑还挺有意思的哈哈哈哈
挺温暖的，每个人的世界中都能有一个引领着你的星星在注视着你并带给你闪亮的温柔与勇气。（这部片子里老帅老帅的大本“平实、迷人”）
情节，表演，选景，拍摄，道具都没有吸引力，消磨时间也有点费劲
冲着赵震雄来看的，实在太差。整个故事都太假，稚嫩的崔宇植也完全撑不起角色，实在忍不了快进看完
赵震雄这人经常演反派，偶尔来个这种正邪难辨的，就很容易让人迷糊，所以反转就顺势而来了，整体上来说是一部爽片。
赵震雄霸气侧漏，实力派一个稳字。题材比较新，内容有点飘
男主和舅舅没啥化学反应，整体就是不知道重点你要讲什么。
剧情很紧但剧本太差，故事很薄，节奏又太赶。就好像起早赶集，到头来却发现什么也没买到。赵震雄+崔宇植这种组合倒是有些看点，毕竟都是中青实力派，演技爆表（崔宇植牛仔裤与正装都不要太性感）。其他的「黑警」、卧底、反转、黑吃黑等元素，韩影中早已数见不鲜，毫无新意了。作为商业电影，及格分而已。
流水线的套路片，套路太老 又不想挖内心戏。
男人都需要这种榜样和模范去教他成为一个真正的男人。
游走在边缘的灰警的故事。
温暖又有质感的回忆录电影，成长是永恒不变的主题。
没有像很多短评写的那样不堪，倒是觉得很写实，很温馨，是生活该有的样子，是这个阶层的人的人间烟火
侧重点的分量不足，配角的功能也未尽其用，如父如子的回忆录变成了流水账的自传电影。George Clooney的导演水平实在不及他的演员天分。 * 演而优则导的鸡肋片成灾，比美国自传回忆录的泛滥更严重。
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