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)
莎翁作品的现代化、通俗化、接地气化，斯皮尔伯格化移植。还得回过头去看一下60年前的那版。。。这版的女主颜值实在平庸了。
其实两版《西区故事》故事情节是“高度雷同”的，其他方面水平上也差别不大，为何豆瓣评分老版比新版高出许多，这未尝不是观众厚古薄今的心理偏好在起作用。而厚古薄今、厚外薄中这种打分偏见，可以说是见怪不怪了。
网飞能用大数据算法砸钱拍爆米花动作片，就也可以同样套路地拍合家欢节庆片。去年的那部虽然是拉拉情侣但家庭戏处理太糟，这一次同样pc的亚男配白女，但显然剧本上稳妥了很多。白眼虽然还是没少翻，但也可以打发时间看一下。
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没看过原版也很少看歌舞片，但似乎《西区故事》面临的是与《沙丘》同样的问题甚至更为严重，大环境变了，尽管导演极尽所能将一切硬件做到最好，然而这套陈旧的故事却落后于时代太久，作为观众始终难以带入情感，后半程被猪队友气得想捶墙。
亚裔成为男主，突破了之前的某种界限，冲着这个就值得推荐！
7/10。大导能力摆在那里，镜头的调度，场景的设计，处处能看出大导的气质。但大导也有局限性，种族对立这样的话题只能点到为止，和如今美国民间的嘈杂声音成了鲜明对比。此外，除了一个新的角色设计，也没有对当下状况的重新认知与考量——他只是在简单回忆近代美国的黄金时代，那个时代属于纽约、属于爵士、属于伯恩斯坦、属于热血、属于青春。导演对艺术追求的复古很难获得观众的共鸣，如同结尾Credit有柯达logo，写着是用35mm拍摄而成的，可是现在的观众都是看着手机屏幕长大的。
莫名其妙地很喜欢这部电影。全程尴尬又搞笑，一开始看以为是连续剧结果居然是个电影。两个主演画风的确是差太多，欧阳还长得像我表妹，但还是挺感人的。最感动是以为家里人会恨透Josh 骗他们让他们整个地方的人都看戏，但他们都更注重Josh 的感受。这个家庭太温馨了。后面的告白也很暖心。看到分这么低有点可惜。想起我跟队友相恋也是这这样。。。我心中的五分电影。
The mafia musical happy ending ver. Romeo & Juliet. The choreography of the dance shows that the actors have worked hard to practice dance BUT not the main characters FFS
美国古惑仔的歌舞片糅合了现今最受人唾弃的爱情主线，但都很失败。几乎人人在说史皮堡高超的调度，可能这是唯一的亮点，展现了黄金时代好莱坞的影子。
3/4/2022 unnecessary long 运镜灯光走位👍
前半程满分，仿佛又见lalaland，后半程一溃千里... 大失所望再减一星
男主选角差到离谱，怪不得颁奖季没有主角奖项提名。
这个剧本也太烂了吧 主角们还都是小学生吗？
不曾想能看到斯皮尔伯格拍出“玛丽苏”式毫无新意的俗套
配角们真的很牛配角们的唱跳真的很牛
故事线老套，然后群演肯定是不错的。
说实话，这是我看过最好的圣诞爱情电影，又幽默又温馨, 还发人深省。的确“社焦”网络害死人，做真实的自己才最重要。Love Christmas 💗🎄
比1961年电影版好一点。歌舞场景很漂亮，最有魅力的角色依然是Anita。这一版的Riff表演得很精彩，演员非常帅。改编增加了几个场景，故事背景设置在拆迁在即的Lincoln Square贫民窟，在警察局唱《Gee, Officer Krupke》更幽默和讽刺，男女主约会的地点The Met Cloisters太美了。但是情节和原版区别不大，男女主的故事线一如既往的烂。不喜欢莫名其妙的爱情故事，很难理解男女主所谓的爱情，这个年代已经不吃《罗密欧与朱丽叶》这一套了。
[视]中美广场舞文化差异，奥斯卡一奖六提，豆瓣6.1。波多黎各人，种族主义。女主非典型美人，迪士尼风格。国外观众看莎翁有没有国内西游记PTSD。公众场合多人性q戏份放在歌舞片里有些不适，印度化程度加深
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