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)
一部很汉子，很爷们的电影，挺不错！这帮刀客受命于衙门，身份为帮闲，类似没有编制的”临时工“，他们生活非常艰难，为了养家，也做了一件打家劫舍的坏事，杀人妻儿，夺人钱财，男主被出卖，流放边疆，10年后得以释放，回家后遭受仇人的报复，最后，包括男主在内的主要人物全都死光了，这就是身为刀客的命运吧，人们常说的：人在江湖飘啊，哪有不挨刀啊...剧情相对简单，风格朴实不夸张，不做作，又恰到好处地加入了些许儿女柔情，竟也令人动容！（里面那个杀手“千人斩“，他挺有意思，不分正邪，将所有人杀光，只留下男主，就是为了和男主决斗，完成10年前的约定...）
导演在看了《倭寇的踪迹》《双旗镇刀客》《绣春刀》《水浒传之豹子头林冲》等等有的没的片单后自信爆棚感觉我能行，结果拍出来不但习作水准还毫无新意。
塞外漠北 黄沙孤烟 薄命刀客 其名David
有名字的角色都是黑人，仅有的个白人就是路人甲，充满BLM和LGBTQ等所谓政治正确的烂片，烂到无懈可击
风格武指还行，剧情及逻辑有点突兀，这十来年好的武侠片很少。
虽然不是名导，虽然没有明星，毫不犹豫地给五星，很努力的一部电影
本打算拍一个武者的哲人电影，故事却很拧巴……
命运都是幻想，一切早已发生。这是一部有格调的武侠。兵者不祥之器，君子持之，却不善算计人心。侠客早已失真，统统死得干净利落，却也返璞归真。
不按套路出牌，剧中人物的行为有点迷，不过打斗场面够看，有点侠客行的感觉！
还蛮有故事的，面孔都很深。里面居然说了句“你妈的，又捅这。”哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈，还算蛮有意思的
朴实剧情配上简单的对白，隐藏的是考究的打斗和摄影，值得一看！
故事情节借鉴了很多其他影视作品，肉眼可见的拼凑感，武侠片真的已经挺小众了
额头刻刀致敬21 savage: issa knife，换白人来演就很俗套，黑人西部还挺新鲜的，唯一的亮点
人物上，林大卫扮演者跟宋洋好像呀！俊 酷！ 千人斩有点儿《绣春刀》里周一围的意思，不过外貌 演技都稍稍略逊一些。
影片还算完整。动作有瑕疵。剧本拉胯，对白有尴尬，衔接（剪辑）有问题，武侠味较欠缺。但我看完了。
名字取得太大而且莫名其妙倒是真的。
身体不舒服，不想多写了。
“你妈的，又捅这里”【哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈全场最佳】
剧本太烂了 但动作和氛围很棒 比某些大牌武侠片还带感
黑人西部复仇电影，没啥意思。倒数5秒数到3就开枪，是活下来的真理。
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