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)
陀螺怎么能把两个骗子高手过招互相欺诈的故事拍得如此无聊的？又臭又长，毫无悬念，这部电影就像片中的马戏团本身，廉价且过时。
绝好的复古风格，摄影、服装俱佳。凯特布兰切特油美出了新高度。男主在追名逐利之中迷失自我，金钱、美色、贪欲，到头来都是一场空，黄粱梦后，最终只能认清自己，只是归属于那个破败的马戏团，不过到这里都能猜到结尾了，可是他为啥非得明知陷进的情况下再去做“怪人”呢？
可能是没看过老版所以主观上对整体故事有很强吸引力，所谓老酒换新瓶，看人手法不看原始配料，所以想起几年前老头也有一部《魔力月光》比这部轻松惬意多了~
这里有两部电影，第一部展示个人趣味，第二部完成情节任务。
3.5介於喜歡與平庸之間，沒看過舊版所以無從比較，單看新版各方面都顯精緻，甚至工整到有些平庸了，2個半小時雖然拍的很完整，但觀影到後半段漸漸有種不需要拍那麼長的想法，演員整體演出就跟本片光影與叙事一樣精緻，凱特布蕑琪的眼神真的很強，跟魯尼短暫同框算是圓了因為愛你CP再次同台的心願。一個騙子走火入魔到失去一切的故事，不想成為自己的父親，不想成為馬戲團的怪胎被當奇珍異獸展示，但是最
因果报应，天道轮回，作恶的人最终沦为了马戏团的最底层的怪人。叙事结构上，前半段马戏团生涯的篇幅有点多，不过倒是也很精彩。
陀螺最大的优势在于能赋予影片出色的视觉设计与氛围，最大的缺点则是精致的画面下空洞的表达内容。其不知取舍过于冗长的铺陈段落如若在最后不能累积绽放，那对于观众就是煎熬。 2.5
关于怪物的养成和轮换，一切有为法，如梦幻泡影，如露亦如电，应作如是观。
再次验证对陀螺的欣赏无能。只可惜了一票超级大牌。
20220227ke。暗黑故事，贪婪与人性之恶。属于很老套的好莱坞叙事了，就是太长了，耐着性子看完还是觉得不错的，没那么差。3.5
整体太缓了，跟这个故事最不搭的就是时长了，第一幕太长，不过这个色调是真的好好看，很有《致命魔术》那味儿…
陀螺好像很喜欢拍这类型的故事，完成度还是不错的，而在摄影跟美术上也有亮点，阵容也是强大，几位主演也演技在线，但这个故事实在有点太“复古”了，讲故事的方式跟故事内核都非常老气，这个骗局并不新鲜，人物的心理塑造也没有过于深入，节奏处理显得有点头重脚轻，主要是三四十年前的戏剧节奏跟现在观众的观影体验有点脱节了。导演也没有让这种“骗中骗”显得更“有趣”一点，结局这种轮回的宿命论也早就猜到。7.2
没看过原版，但Cooper和大魔王对手戏有点东西，所以后半段i住。前半段马戏团的剧情太长了，废戏挺多，删个半小时就好了
画面类型片，美是真心美，主黄蓝对撞的光感一绝（办公室和铁囚笼两处尤其明显 / 通过缩小光圈来切镜的复古手法 / 雪夜里冲撞在漫天鹅毛与钢筋骨架之间的逃命小黑车 / 游乐园相关场景的美术设计是极致梦幻的，远景一拉，lights sprinkled in the wild are already telling the story / delicate lonely strikes of piano key / 比起这乏味的故事，本次的观影同伴以及老板针对他的lash out反倒有意思得多得多呢
前半部挺有点林奇的诡调感，但影片也因此显得割裂，如果说前半段是主人公必不可少的前史，那么最后的回归又使得后半部分像是个插曲。两部分分别对应两个女性，都着了笔墨，可都太浅，本是两个极富魅力的角色却各自黯淡。括弧式的结局草率得有些敷衍，不过但也真是疯的令人唏嘘。（戒酒宣传片
难以置信，陀螺在水形物语之后用了这么强的卡司就拍了个这？？？
前半段实在太过冗长了，以至于煎熬了一半的时间，剧情紧凑起来突然觉得轻快了。
2个半小时。。。好长。减一星。。
但当叙事运转起来之后
恶人自有恶人磨，陀螺不拍夜戏不拍阴天戏违法是吧，库神跟小白脸毫无关系，演得不好别演了
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