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)
颜狗等线上片源了/除了龙也外演员全员酱油啊......土屋这个造型真认不出
第二次看，还是没能看完，因为老婆不喜欢，我也觉得似乎没那么让人愿意花2个小时去看
金刚 女主，差点认不出来；如果生活有快/慢按键该多好！
在无限地看雪景和救人里获得内心的平静，被所救之人救赎。大量的雪景和暴风雪，好像试图要我理解女主内心所追寻的平静，但是我确实不理解那个一看就是陷阱的洞到底是谁干的。
最后收尾挺好，也是为之后续集留路
即便这片是默认所有人都看过《黑道家族》来拍的，也是非常差。想表达什么呢？
Paulie的演员挑的不错，小Sil的范儿有点过
所以永远不要嘲笑一个跌倒的人，他有可能摔碎了蛋蛋。。。用这黑色幽默来结束故事实在有点荒谬
过去的就让他过去，哪有什么前传？make me sick
6 网大版纽瓦克还真没愧对网大这个质量。
没看过《黑道家族》的我觉得索然无味。低低低配版《教父》。
故事就很有趣，悬疑感强却不会很烧脑。饼哥的演技还是保持在线发挥的水准。雪地那段殴打隔壁老王，被绿的男人苦苦哀求黑老大放过隔壁老王的戏拍得很漂亮。
7years later
劇本比較大膽地在虛虛實實中跳躍，虛實之間處理的還是比較到位。多線索並不混亂。但是整個電影乏善可陳，亮點不多。
这个适合放在《黑道家族》系列之前当做序，作为电影还是欠缺一点气势，雷利奥塔他演的那兄弟俩还不错，其它都一般般！
那个年代黑帮还是不够狠 确实需要进化 这总是窝里斗真是不咋地
直接叫Many Saints in Wakanda吧. 烂活.
摄影、色调、服装、道具都不错，演员们肯定没少看黑道家族，哈哈哈哈，模仿得有点重了。
Every Trick in the Book 2021 1080p BluRay x264 DTS
冗长的铺垫导致一直抓不到故事主线，结局也不算惊艳，浪费豪华的卡司
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