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)
妮可·基德曼是整容失败还是特效化妆？怎么感觉这张脸跟电影更贴合呢？
他用行动证明了他就是I Love Lucy中的I 也用行动证明了他不是I Love Lucy中的I
完全没有看过传记对象及剧集，没有啥触动，只觉得技术上处理得比较巧妙，剧里剧外现实、拍摄和旧影片穿插互相铺垫推进，表演自然是好的
索金是烂索金，妮可是好妮可。
不理解这部的评分怎么这么低，明明故事的后劲非常大，看到后面才有种被抽丝剥茧、柳暗花明的感觉，最后的结尾更是点睛之笔，把前面铺陈的剧中剧、事业、家庭三条线的矛盾高潮汇聚在了一个点，又巧妙地运用一个神情状态的忘词表演去意味深长地讲完了这个故事。第一次看到妮可在剧情片中奉献出这么有力量感的表演，相比之前演烂了的一堆“深情白玫瑰”角色，这次更能展现她表演上的跨度。其实看看这部再看看《斯宾塞》，剧本深度的挖掘上真是高下立见。
当一个女人失去安全感。
翻来覆去看了好一阵也几乎看不出来这是妮可，呵呵。至于剧情本身嘛，呃，老太太的裹脚布，呵呵。不过，自带字幕倒是省事了
从过于跳脱的情节编排和一众人伶牙俐齿的攻讦里，争斗、偏执、痴狂、坚守，粗看是为了这个剧，实则还是延续那个爱人与家的梦，哪怕只是在这方舞台上；最终危机化解、观众欢欣，戏照原样演了下去；现实中Lucille和她的Desi最终也没能变成the Ricardos，只剩唏嘘。
伪纪录片手法，是我最不喜欢的手法，没有之一，然后一转又变成边故事边情景剧的感觉，混乱，看得昏沉
艾伦索金怎么不管拍什么都能拍出一股勤能补拙的吃苦劲儿，完全没必要。
其实我一向讨厌索金这种台词语句通顺得一塌糊涂的丝滑感，本片的结构也不过是在《史蒂夫乔布斯》的框架上加入了前因后果以及些许戏剧互文，这些方面都没给我太多惊喜。反倒是妮可的表演很有意思，她的每场表演，给到我的感觉比其他演员都多了一层表达，不知道这是导演现场调教得好，还是演员自己的领悟，她这条人物线算是打动到我了。不过缺点还是老样子，没有什么视听的呈现，让三位女性强行和解什么的……
女性形象很饱满 但性格太偏执和强势 大概就真的会在生活中让人难以相处
意识形态与道德审判近些年成为一股强大的波涛。敢于硬钢的人必定被拍死，于是艺术作品也大多选择妥协，而这种妥协伴随着很多潜藏的个人意识与价值选择。也许，思想领域也需要一个突变与新生吧！
台词密度好大，光顾着说词，把演员在情绪和情感上更细腻的发挥都挤压没了
人前装呆萌，人后彰显独立与智慧，是露西尔一生的真实写照。在好莱坞每个拍摄本都要接受审查的年代，她依然是牢牢掌控片场的女王。
2.5。妮可基德曼的表演完全是二封影后的水准，第三幕戏剧张力很棒。但是大段的闪回完全没必要，索金太追求故事的完整性了，导致第三幕之前的整体观感很不好。
果然，不用二刷，就想对劲了。
就这无聊的剧本，索金不会指望有人一遍看不明白还看第二遍吧…
有top hat和swing time海报，又一部离婚，不由想起塔米菲的眼睛
前面摸不清它想表达啥，最后口红印才恍然大悟——哦这种女人都会被出轨，嫖娼犯存在的唯一原因就是有人孜孜不倦地去嫖娼，和女人没有半毛钱关系。什么示弱什么装大度，我可去你的吧
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