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)
整体观感其实一般般，但这他娘才是西部片，前段时间出的那部全黑人的垃圾片也好意思舔着大脸说自己是西部片？我连片名都懒得记....
优秀的西部片太少了！节奏虽缓慢，导演见功底。情节虽简单，反转够给力。演技过硬，剧本扎实！
正统西部片。粗粝，简单，暴力，快速。不磨磨叽叽，谈不拢就开干。就是高潮战斗戏有点短，刚感觉开始爽干了，就灭完了。
窝囊老农是个狠角色，剧情略显拖沓，几个罪犯还是不够狠啊。
就是不知不觉看完了，一个半小时，说明逻辑没问题，节奏紧凑。挺喜欢主人公的性格，隐忍克制，但是就像好汉歌一样，该出手时就出手。
Billy the old man no country to rest
3星，故事简单，缓慢沉闷，但质感不错，有西部片的浓味。
绕了一圈还是回到原点
还可以，比利小子被放走的设定真是让西部片爱好者眼睛发亮
1.主角不就是严肃版不话痨狂傲不羁的唱着歌谣的巴斯特2.亨利.麦卡蒂就是比利小子的原名3.西部片味道正，配乐好。
隐世高手系列-----伸冤人 疾速追杀 小人物 极线杀手
他相信了曾经那个少年
整体的节奏和风格，我比较喜欢，人物的外形塑造也不错，结局并不意外
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这电影前半部分多不错，干净利落，败笔全在最后的反转啊。①老亨利前面杀人那么的干脆利落，怎么会被一个受伤的翻拍追着给击伤了？枪战之后，居然放松了警惕，跟人设不符啊。②最后才发现那人胳膊上有标志。说明，老亨利以前就知道黑社会的人身上总有一些什么奇怪的标志的。那么，作为江湖老手，刚把这个人救回来的时候，难道不应该对其全身进行检查吗？如此警惕性高的人，居然被忽悠了。。③前面杀人的片段确实看得很爽，也把老亨利的人设给立住了，但后面的死实在的窝囊透顶了。。④既然老亨利都已经放弃江湖恩怨十几年了，打算安享晚年了，从他不让儿子学习射击就可以看出来，不想参合进江湖恩怨之中，那是铁了心的，为何开始还会去救那个人呢？？？⑤老亨利如此厉害的人设，养了这么一个白痴一样的儿子？
如果一个人看起来就是厉害的角色，怎么躲藏，如果看起来就像是憋着什么，也不合适。
还可以，比利小子被放走的设定真是让西部片爱好者眼睛发亮
拍得太英雄主义了就不现实主义，太现实主义了又没多大传奇意味，难难难
我都看了个啥？讲故事的话，我没听太懂，这个比利到底有多牛逼？动作、枪战的话，《英雄本色》小马哥甩你们好几条街，而且就你们这拍法，只能证明当时人们可能都脑残+体残。悬疑？有你们这磨叽的劲儿，医生和警察不早就请到了？家里养伤那位，一醒来就扑到你家公子，怎么会是好鸟儿？最后，我竟然无法找到合适的标签来给这个电影进行定位。....
西部片就是美国人的武侠片。一个金盆洗手的江湖高手，却不料再次卷入江湖仇杀当中。这样的剧情是不是就熟悉多了。从西部片横向比较其实比较普通，胜在干净利落味道纯正。
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