The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all. I only saw the film once, just when it came out on video, but that was exactly the impression I had of what it was doing--with one exception: I felt the torture and mutilation was meant to depict Aoyama's fear of allowing himself to love again, as all those things can be seen as metaphor for the effects of love. I read this somewhere else that that line was not supposed to be in the film. We can hear her throughout the film, we just can't see the real her. part of my brain kick in, and I left the indie theater that was playing it. Both her confession and his own act with her cause a change in his view of her from a perfect Asami to an "evil Asami". He does not recognize that women have the same feelings that men have. What does Kiri... kiri... kiri mean? When Asami comes into the audition room we cannot see the real her, we only see Aoyama's projection. This and Lady Vengeance are still my favorites to this day. It's the last comment here: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=127803. Our first watch, my wife was teetering on boredom....until the body bag twitched in the background. And it is his son who saves him in the end. All in all, it's a shame this movie is only known for the torture scenes when it is really a great film beyond just the horror genre. I have probably watched it six times, and shown it to friends and family ten times. During the questions that his best friend Yasuhisa asks, we hear the real girl's answers, but Aoyama isn't paying any attention to them, he is only attentive to his projection. The missing record producer and missing bar madam are two of the pieces he can't make fit. The film produces powerful reactions with little prompting and little incitement, considering how brief the violent scene is. The pacing is really perfect. I definitely agree Aoyama is living in the past, with his yearning for a woman never exposed to feminism. As he reads her resume, her story that her hopes were ended tragically and she now feels dead inside serves to elicit sympathy. It looks and sounds better than it ever has. Spoilers ahead: You've been warned. In the third version he finally comes to understand the meaning of their relationship -- we take a chance, and we suffer a lot, but we survive. Despite the advice of the experienced Yasuhisa, Shigeharu calls Asami to date and he falls for her. When the dream begins again, Shigehiko and Asami battle it out in Aoyama's head to see which will prevail. I don't know if this one is a movie, but his novel Piercing is also really good. Mine too. It's not quite as dark as Audition and Piercing, but it has its moments. When Aoyama begins thinking about meeting someone through the planned audition, even before the first resumes arrive, he "sees" a girl sitting in her room waiting for him; but at this point she is not yet defined enough to have features, those are put in place only after he sees Asami's photograph. So he goes back to sleep and dreams again, trying to find a resolution to his problem. But as he continues to consider this he begins to think that she may not have been so young and helpless after all when it happened. It was intersting and brutal, and many of the scenes have stuck with me. | It was the first Asian horror film I'd seen and made quite the impression. | As he remembers his own loss he makes her into a tragic heroine. Friend just said I think you will really love it. In Tokyo, Shigeharu Aoyama is a widower that grieves the loss of his wife and raises his son Shigehiko Aoyama alone. I too, thought that the film progressed in such a fragmentary state, almost disjointed and obscured. I could see a lot of people turning it off 20 minutes in because it's so mundane until it starts to get a little weird. As he considers everything she's told him there are too many parts, and some of them don't fit together into a proper whole; there are details left over, figuratively. Even just before the torture scene he is drinking, what we are to believe is a poisoned drink, showing that even that view of her is not accurate. They receive several portfolios of candidates and Shigeharu becomes obsessed by the gorgeous Asami Yamazaki. If you liked those two, you should try In the Miso Soup. I loved it. He is also led to question just what it is he is looking for in a woman. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. But he has never noticed her other than as a worker that's there to do a job. Later when he finally opens the bag and releases it we see a tortured man who has been stripped of almost all his humanity, completely enslaved to the whims of this woman no matter how sadistic and evil she may be. Even the chronology, which has been linear up till now, starts jumping around. You have to see who they really are, or you get your feet cut off. His imagination put pictures to all of the negative metaphors of his guilty conscience -- telling lies (cut off tongue), tasting pain (syringe), feeling it in his stomach (needles), a playboy that "runs around" (cut off feet), searching for beauty and youth (eyes), losing his head, and so on. Previously she had only said she'd been injured, but now she wants him to know the truth before proceeding any further and for him to decide if he can accept it. Release Calendar DVD & Blu-ray Releases Top Rated Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Showtimes & Tickets In Theaters Coming Soon Coming Soon Movie News India Movie … The scene culminates in the image of the severed tongue flapping around, which for him signifies lying. Spoiler Warning: This isn't a review of the film for those who haven't seen it yet. However, as his subconscience takes over, he begins examining everything she's told him and the details start coming apart and recombining in a more negative picture. The film doesn't EVER shows us the real Asami. At it's heart, it never stops being about their romance. I need to rewatch it. But his imagination turns these things into pieces that don't fit her story; so she must be evil and lying. His guilt is growing both from stepping out on his wife and from holding a sham audition. I am reminded of the protestor at the Rotterdam Film Fest who stood up mid film and said, "You're Evil!' In other words he is emasculated. Every image is colored by Aoyama's psyche. A succession of images of different girls attacking him sexually -- an aggressive Asami, his secretary, and even his son's young girlfriend -- all serve to expose to him his conflicting ideas of women's purity, innocence, and sexuality. He comes back to reality momentarily when he wakes up with a start, finds he's still in bed with her, and to his relief still has his foot. I've heard it described as torture porn, but that really doesn't do it justice. Each time his emotions grow we see the bag move. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Press J to jump to the feed. A lot of static shots, beautiful cinematography, quiet family drama, the subject of marriage...I found myself enjoying the film as a drama, almost forgetting which genre the film actually is. Also, so much of the film appears conspicuously dreamlike, and Asami in particular seems so inhumanly angelic, that I felt this was surely the reading the filmmakers intended. Although the weekend was his idea, once there he imagines that he is the stuttering innocent who doesn't have sex on his mind and that she is the one who initiates the sex. He had been lonely too long. to Miike. I didn't even hear about this movie when it first came out. He expresses several times that he feels like he is doing something wrong and even feels like he's committing a crime. A lonely Japanese widower whose son is planning to move out of the house soon expresses his sadness to a friend and fellow film producer, who becomes inspired to hold an audition for a non-existent film so that the widower can select a new potential bride from the resulting audition pool. As Aoyama concentrates on his son, he appears. I wasn't aware, that it is based on a book and I only watched it one time until now. Once he had killed the image of the evil Asami he was able to hear for the third time the conversation from their second date. The movie is emotionally compelling to the extreme (perhaps Kubrick's greatest success in that department over the course of his entire career), but it's also a thoughtful look at how big-picture combat maneuvers and high-level military politics impact everyone further down the chain of command, inevitably hitting the bottom the hardest. Menu. A Finger represents touching; typically physical or sexual abuse, but also may be intimacy. Removing the feet then represents preventing infidelity. I find the analysis of the dreamlike quality pervading the entire film insightful, that is in fact why it is one of my favorites. I appreciated the novels length. Saw it in SF with a roommate at this horror fest in a theater. ★ Audition movie explained reddit: Free and no ads no need to download or install. His picture of her has now been poisoned and takes a very dark turn as he begins to imagine the evil Asami torturing him and destroying every part of his life little by little. One of my favorite films but also one of the hardest to watch. But I tip my hat to it for standing out in its field. R/HORROR, known as Dreadit by our subscribers is the premier horror entertainment community on Reddit. He's not a bad man; he doesn't want to deceive anyone. Either way, unless you examine Aoyama's experiences before the horrible climax, that part is almost a non sequitur. The first half is muted colours, still shots, always level, naturalistic lighting. As you commented, it's an amazing character horror drama. It first appears when he considers calling her for a second date. He finally opens it to see what it is and is shocked by what's inside.
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