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)
其实电影叫做cutter也很OK，越是这样的室内情景剧，越能看出一个演员的天分到底有多强，Mark是个可塑性非常强的演员
小场景里的极限调度，剧场电影的典范，小而美的榜样，无需过多深刻的立意，不用太多炫目的打斗，所有的一切藏在一个小小的裁缝店里，一个人，一把剪刀，几个在门前门后进场出场的角色，就能盘活一部无限反转的电影。
比老派黑帮还老派的低成本高智商反转电影，高超的编剧技巧和演技给人久违的眼前一亮的感觉，完美诠释了什么叫老谋深算。
不会编故事的剪裁师不是好杀手；救命……我竟然没认出男主还演过全男版第十二夜的Olivia小姐（这谁能想到！不愧是腐国男演员
但这，不恰恰是问题吗。
表演很有张力，故事没有新意，看起来像舞台剧。
小成本单一场景却高潮迭起，老爷子眼里全是戏，个人年度前五已预定。Mark Rylance deserves this！
孙锡久的反派帅疯球了！！Real GANGSTA
不会讲故事的杀手不是好裁缝。一环套一环，有惊喜。
看完才发现boss是孙锡久，曾经那么可爱的孙锡久啊……
外加最后结局的神级演技
无论西装还是陷阱，无非是精巧地勾画设计加上精准地剪裁实施。单一场景内的环环相扣完成得不俗，但受限于视听调度和质感营造，没能带动出更大的叙事能量和情绪张力，Mark Rylance的演出可能是最大亮点所在。三星半
3.5，结局不难猜，剧情编排有点意思，但每次反转后就总是差点劲。
我看完1的时候，想如果有续集的话，暴力程度应该来到18禁，但是显然这一部的血腥暴力场面被更多的喜剧内容中和了，和妹妹一起看的，看之前还担心太过于暴力，而引起不适，但是没想到爆笑连连，我想这也是成为票房冠军的原因吧。
节奏把控如同穿针引线，精细又妥帖，在一众赶复古潮流的新片里，只有这部真的抓住了复古的精髓——优雅
好久没见这种good old twist了！主线虽然不难猜，但是处理的挺有趣，长度也适中。Jonny Flynn能对得上Mark Rylance的戏，观影体验不错。四五星徘徊。（话说这个片一直7.9-8分震荡啊）
相反冲突中的情绪张力十足，
3.5 就是非常正统的警匪片，该有的都有，也够娱乐。只是反派实在太帅了，搞得最后希望马东锡下手轻一点…对不起，我的立场不对…我承认…
剧本杀电影，没啥意思。很厌恶《暴力史》式的结尾，裁缝形式和影片内容结合得不好。Immigrants, we get the job done.
很精致的电影。但我更希望老头不是outfit, 他只是根据剧情发展他所掌握的信息，在中间当狼，然后和前台全身而退。
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