Asami prepares an injection in Takashi Miike’s Audition. Audition for a Japanese movie by fames J-horror director Takashi Miike.
I’m going to end the review here. I still feel dirty after watching this last night.
Sigh…
Yet, something compels me to go on – it’s a really exciting film to watch for one with great angles and atmospheric set pieces, fitting music and enough creep to give you shivers. Miike did a fabulous job with this one, and it’s garnered a huge cult following.
I think the most fitting compliment I can pay to Audition is there are a lot of movies where girls are hunted by rapists and serial killers, and women have cowered in theatres in response. Monsters and ghosts are scary on one level, but the real-life possibility of being kidnapped, thrown in a pit and forced to put on skin lotion is terrifying enough for some women to avoid black vans altogether.
Well, Audition flips the tables over. It made me want to never date a girl I didn’t know again.
Even if I did know her, I’d ask for references, and if even one of them didn’t pan out. well, I’m not taking those chances.
You’re probably rolling your eyes and going ‘Oh, Cibby, put away your silk panties and act like a man for once!’, but you don’t know. You know nothing!
Look, let me leave it at this don’t ever date quiet, fragile looking Japanese girls with really black hair. I know that sounds racist, but if you watch Audition and see what’s in that damn bag, you’ll tear up your ticket to Japan immediately.
Oh, and if your friend has a really eerie premonition about a girl that you’re seeing, and asks you to promise not to call her, DON’T call her.
Fine. Watch the trailer, you sick freak.
I say: A great movie that shifts from romance to terror in an effortless heartbeat. I think our own Horrorphile, Bryn, has some good things to say about this movie, though it’s not as gory as most horror flicks.
See it for: Crazy, surrealistic montages where information comes at you like the drip of an IV. Weird Japanese conversations where they talk about stuff that sounds incredibly banal in English. Audition flips the powerful male on his back, and pulls off his insectlike limbs, one-by-one.
Get angry about: The damn subtitles! This is a movie where Miike has layered black and white throughout, and he often centers the shot on a white object. The subtitles are blurry and white, which makes them totally illegible. Man, I’d get medieval on those subtitlers if they were around…
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