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)
表演很赞！但是电影实在是不好看。妮可虽然明显脸僵，但演得还是够传神，电影没有她的表演会失色更多。可惜整部电影没有给她更高光的表演时刻。巴登那个影帝提名该给小李子。
对老片子扣当时拍摄的细节，对影人是一直自我缅怀吧。
剪得太碎了，看了一个小时才明白在讲什么。预告片比正片要好看很多……不过知道了原来wandavision是在致敬这个 嗯嗯
竟然有种在看肥皂剧里面拍肥皂剧的感觉，没有表现出人物的重点个性，叙事上过于平凡了
后面可能开始精彩吧，看了35分钟真坚持不下去了。
拍喜剧的演员说我们拍的又不是万尼亚舅舅，这部拍片场比滨口龙介拍得好玩多了。
这类好莱坞往事题材似乎都是这种节奏：一件小事中女主感受到男主出轨，并在此期间不停寻求验证，但男主的各种做法都是向着女主，然而最后高潮来了，男主也承认了出轨。妮可巴登提名最佳男女演员毫无质疑，但是故事的套路化也很是焦心。个人觉得巴登最有希望得奖。
20220113 除了前1/3節奏慢了點,其他也沒什麼好挑剔的，也許是因為對白太快有些沒有完全聽明白，只抓到了那種感覺，就是嗯有才華的女人被困於各種桎梏中的事情，一遍又一遍的在時代長河裡上演，然後像泡沫消失，少數幾個成為後人光影中的故事
有点长有点话痨，最后30min才渐入佳境。剧本不够好，演员都是好演员。
非常需要耐性，如果不是妮可的话完全看不下去，好在后面渐入佳境…
i love the ending how important is the word home for lucy ps.男主和男配的提名真的水的可以
妮可的表演很棒，将女主的性格完全展示了出来，最后发现丈夫出轨到忘词那段是高光，但影片还是有点混乱
好莱坞现在只能拍意淫以前辉煌时刻的伪纪录片吗？所有对于女性的思考都非常肤浅模式化喊口号，也许这就是美国梦吧。
老板要是不犯事，这姑娘是不就一辈子呆在家了。
哈维尔·巴登浑身散发一股普信老流氓的气息，如果不是索金和妮可，真的看不下去。怀孕、年龄、形象、政治因素对事业的影响、丈夫出轨，当下女性社会生活议题大集成，索金发挥正常，妮可发挥出色，可惜传记片难免流水账。
影后妮可基德曼，就正常发挥的水平，人物经历和故事精彩程度没有同期提名的塔米菲好看。
索金写剧本的能力很强，但是作为导演还是过于“工整平庸”了…双线叙事反而起到了弄巧成拙的效果。不过传奇的表演非常出色，最后一幕听到“I‘m Home”后的恍惚是属于她的oscar moment
妮可真的别打针了，有几场戏直接额头反光。但这次表演很努力也很好，把那个年代里Lucille Ball遇到事业和生活双层不公待遇时的失落和内心的抗争通过眼睛演出来了。巴登不是演得不好，但确实和妮可对不上，所以看起来这对夫妻确实一开始就名存实亡了。
6.5 一个女人的追求和辛酸。故事了无新意。但演员都很出彩。妮可基德曼真是一个厉害的演员，能让观众共情。
虽然糙了点，还是吊打《窗里女人》。索德伯格这两年状态回升，前一部《切勿擅动》更好。
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