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20/20 Filmsight - December 2006

Audition

December 3rd 2006 21:57
Asami prepares an injection in Takashi Miike's Audition
Audition is 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...

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 - 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...

Want more insightful reviews than mine? Check out Film Forum.



* this image is taken from the review on Film Forum

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Comment by JohnDoe

December 3rd 2006 23:50


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Hi Cib,

Chalk me up as one who was screwed up by this tasty horror beverage.

Audition sticks with you like glue once you have been through it. Deceptively paced and unbalancing, once the film steam rolls through its final frames you cant help but be affected.

Director Takeshi Miike (Ichi The Killer, Dead or Alive, Vistor Q) is unhinged when it come to the execution of his ideas and I love it.

This film is a lot more low key than some of his other works which usually contain scenes of frenzied violence soaked with buckets of blood. (See- Ichi The Killer)

Great review of a great film.

Comment by Cibbuano

December 4th 2006 00:42


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thanks john. I'm not sure I could take much more than this.

Or could I? Those yakuza movies are one thing: you expect them to get nasty.

But getting vicious from a waifish girl?


Comment by Stanley

December 4th 2006 04:03
ah looks freaky! isn't takashi miike the rising auteur of japanese cinema?

Comment by Cibbuano

December 4th 2006 21:16


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He did a bunch of yakuza movies that are classics, though I haven't seen them (dead or alive) and he cranked out a bunch of movies in the past couple of years.

Watch the movie, stan, then go out on a blind date, I dare you.


Comment by Trina

December 6th 2006 02:32


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Ooo great review and well written as is all your work Cibby. I can't wait to see this film I love Japanese/Korean films that really scar you and make everything creepy seem possible. Have you seen Old Boy? It's a Korean flick and it's quite... hmmm well you'll see.

Comment by Cibbuano

December 6th 2006 03:22


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Old Boy? Haven't heard of it... got a link?

If you like that creepy Asian stuff, you'll probably love this - though it affected me more than my girlfriend, due to the subject matter...

Comment by Trina

December 6th 2006 03:40


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Ahh check it out. No I don't have a link, and I can't look for one cuz I'm at work

Oh I didn't know you had a gf!

Comment by Cibbuano

December 6th 2006 04:02


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why, because I'm freakishly weird-looking?

Old Boy

it does look cool... a Korean Count Of Monte Cristo!


Comment by JohnDoe

December 6th 2006 04:48


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OldBoy is an exceptionally well made asian film. The less you know about the story the story the better.

It is actually the second part in Korean Director Wong Chan Wook Park's trilogy of revenge.

Starting with Sympathy For Mr Vengeance, then he did Old Boy and the third one is Sympathy For Lady Vengeance.


You dont have to see them in order because each is a stand alone film. OldBoy is the best of the three but the other two are also engrossing and well worth your time.

Comment by Trina

December 6th 2006 05:41


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Haha no Cibby not at all! It's becuz this is the first time time in the 7 months or so that I've been visiting your blog that I've heard you made reference to a gf.

Ooo nicely said JohnDoe.

Comment by JohnDoe

December 6th 2006 06:06


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Right back at ya Trina for having such good taste to bring OldBoy in the first place....

Comment by Cibbuano

December 6th 2006 21:28


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Looks like Old Boy comes highly recommended... I'll try to track it down at the mediocre video store near my place...

Comment by Cibbuano

February 2nd 2007 04:00


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did they roll all the way back?


Comment by Cibbuano

February 7th 2007 21:23


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don't worry about it, I don't actually act like a man, either!


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