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)
[명씨네] 这不挺好吗。即便引线埋得并不深，也隐隐猜到最后会出现那句台词(temporary job)，结局还是非常有冲击力。完全招架不住心理层面的惊悚，或许因为逐渐感受到堕落是一种本能，看到人的贪欲呈指数式膨胀，他可以那么轻易地臣服、溃退、作恶、失去人形，就憋闷得慌。陀螺的片讨厌和喜欢的好像各占一半，但不得不说整体性都很强，适合“大片”的无短板技术型。而且他的“暗黑”元素也并不是奇观式的堆砌，很多时候观看的不适是因为发现了欲望的灰色地带，不像有的导演只为展现自己的私人癖好（...）可惜的是篇幅已经做到这么长了，但对三位女演员的刻画都不够立体。
Mister, I was born for it.
陀螺美学集大成，美术设计太强了，故事层面确实可说的不多，中文片名太耽误事儿了，只能说片名也是一种“障眼法”？
真的不喜欢Cooper，导致入戏入得很困难。还是觉得气息很陈旧，不知道翻拍的点在于什么，除了纳入陀螺的影像奇观。
就这？浪费了我宝贵的两个下半小时！就这么一个故事拖拖拉拉讲了这么久，节奏太差了，前一个小时令人昏昏欲睡，当然后面也没好到哪去，白瞎了这么多我喜欢的好演员
在哈登安排不良少年出场前，实在看不出这个老板有什么不妥之处。
3.5 看的是巴黎Max Linder影院上映的黑白版。此片适合黑白，比彩色好，有些惊艳。
私人癖好导致剧作重心略偏，节奏失控，但往后就好了，整体还是喜欢的，而且马戏团的戏虽是剧作上的败笔却在视听层面做的很棒，陀螺的影像与氛围依旧充满独特魅力，可比起之前在魔幻与现实的平衡，陀螺这回似乎更偏向现实主义，没有真正的怪物而是让现实将人摧残成怪物，魔幻骗术的神秘性被完全剥夺，一个底层野心被上流精英玩弄、践踏、毁灭，自以为是却只是个无知的玩具，美国梦终是虚无，下层命运终是循环无尽的悲惨，结尾很黑，但命运悲剧大于人物悲剧，男主塑造的还是差点意思，库珀的气质本身就不太符合角色
确实很长所以我是两倍速看的，但是很能get到。如果后面真的有超能力就好啦。女性角色很平庸没什么创新。
这么豪华的阵容，成片就这……不知道陀螺是怎么了，能不能回到你拍《水形物语》时的水准啊！电影前半段铺垫的真是太长了，看了一半我甚至还睡了一觉，好在后半段渐入佳境，观感有了质的提升，结尾很不错！
《昨天》里面贾宏声承认自己没有外国血统，我觉得悲怆；这部片中他承认自己born for it，我只觉得滑稽。
太冗長了，一環扣一環但環環都說太透…畫面固然美，音樂固然扣人心弦，故事講到最後已經無聊了…
看完，凯特·布兰切特的角色设置有点工具。夫妇自杀有点震撼。
陀螺在翻牌传统黑色电影的宿命论文本上構合了更多现代主义背景下的行为心理学象征，并成功结构出一个多层嵌套的镜像心理结构：由主角—父亲—皮特—geek，由母亲—女友—作为异性镜像的布兰切特，最终在类似库斯图里卡、佐杜洛夫斯基的心理现实隐喻场景“马戏团”中得以闭合，在形式逻辑上过足了瘾。
3.5吧，可以再短一些。本意期待看到一個大路加魔術爭鬥的東西
挺难让人看进去的 但陀螺的艺术细胞还是彰显淋漓尽致 PS BC的裸戏完全没必要并且不好看 PS2 大魔王这种角色我有点看腻了。。
在团里的几个形象角色形成闭环
前半段马戏团部分有让我想起小时候游乐园里看到过的畸形秀，长大后再也没有了。
在哈登安排不良少年出场前，实在看不出这个老板有什么不妥之处。
缺的是爱还是恨
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