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)
最后还是要靠权贵内斗翻盘,没看出法律正义在哪?
剧本弱剪辑也莫名其妙,每个人都是突然就醒悟了突然就放弃了,白瞎了这么好的阵容,最后的独白也太突兀了吧,写作文都不这样写了
剧情异常简单,廖启智最后一部作品,感觉像是电影版的《律政强人》,但他的戏份远远不够。方中信则无论如何给我一种“张强”的感觉(他着西装实在太型),但剧中寻回自己初心的前段非常突兀,有点莫名其妙。
最后,智叔,我想您了。
方中信还是很帅阿,冷静又沉着。
其实节奏还可以,但整体看下来,就是中规中矩的一部作品。
总结剧情:用资本打败资本
自首的太生硬了,不过可能却很真实。剧本整体比较平。
怀念智叔,多给一星吧,话说这电影编得真不靠谱……
很久之前香港很多律师题材的影视,这么多年过去好像没什么长进
中规中矩的法庭片,片尾男主独白比较令人出戏,不过也只能这样了,毕竟普通香港人拿李嘉诚等大地产商没办法啊。
还好吧,律政强人电影版。方中信怎么又年轻啦。曾江更老啦。智叔还是那么好演技。
廖启智和曾江相继离开……
该有的元素都有了,老戏骨们的水准依旧在线,但就像这些新生代演员一样,港片也不过如此了,比照刚刚看完的《龙虎武师》,实在令人唏嘘…
最后一段律师发言好评。
故事简单,漏洞多。多两星都给廖叔,这样的演技,唉,看不到了
中规中矩港片,没什么大惊喜也没什么大穿帮bug,最后翻盘削微有那么点突兀,这种官商政高层勾结串通的大型利益组织,应该是没有这么容易翻车吧,黑白通吃证人啥的都能砍翻,正经渠道不可能搞沉,只能从他们内部自爆
甘草配角真的很亮眼,鲍起静为孙求情、廖启智眼下肌肉的颤动,加了1星,剧情本身2-3星。无论贫穷富有,最重要是人走到终点时,无愧于心。
没有预期的那么烂,看的粤语版,还是比较纯正的港味的,节奏其实还可以的!这类片没必要深究,差不多就行了!
有钱人杀了人,怕影响选举,嫁祸给穷人,最终正义凌然战胜污浊贿赂的故事。演员一级,故事没级,老套剧情,粗糙拍摄,有点可惜。
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