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Mr. Aoyama's wife died a couple of years ago, and he's started
to think about remarrying. His friend at work decides to
cast a phoney audition, to help Aoyama find a new wife. After
many different girls, Aoyama seems to have finally found
the girl of his dreams, Asami. They start to date and
everything is going just swell, but one day when the two
of them decide to take a trip, Aoyama is about to find out
that everything isn't just as perfect as it seems.
Audition is one of the most disturbing movies of all time.
It's clear that they wanted it to resemble the Guinea Pig movies,
only with a higher class, they succeeded. I was more disturbed
by this than the infamous Guinea Pig movies since this has a
story to it and you get to root for all the persons involved.
Audition is a very slow movie, and it doesn't try to keep any
suspense at all. But it's so brilliantly disturbing that you
end up gasping for air. When I saw that there was a new Asian
horrormovie at my local DVD shop, I just couldn't help myself
getting interested, not to talk about the awesome cover. As I
began to watch it I thought that it was going to be a very
slow movie. But as the movie gets going, you sink deeper and
deeper into the plot.
Takashi Miike
is a very talented director. He treats us with
beautiful landscapes, an eerie yellow/orange glow on the whole
movie, and some truly fascinating effects. The acting is also
very good, I was especially impressed by Eihi Shiina, playing
the mysterious girl Asami. She was stunning in her part and
believe it or not, this was her debute as an actress. Ryo
Ishibashi is also a very talented actor, but as I've seen him
in a couple of movies before, I wasn't very surprised that he
gave us a great performance as I already knew he would.
This is one of
the few Japanese horrormovies to get a US DVD
release. It sure as hell deserved it though. If you've seen
the Japanese dramathriller 'The Isle' which got a limited US
cinema release, you know what to expect in Audition, as the
two movies are very much a like (even if this is a lot better).
The ending of this movie totally blows you away and I had to
shut of the TV for like 15 minutes before being able to resume
as I thought it was so disturbing... and I'm not the squeamish
type. I wasn't very disturbed by the Guinea Pig movies, but
this is by far the most disturbing movie I have ever seen.
Not so much bloody gore as disturbing gore. Only two really
bloody gore scenes in which one gets the head snapped off,
and one gets the foot dismembered a la Guinea Pig. Then we
have some disturbing needle through eye piercing, a very
realistic hand which is missing a couple of fingers, and
a chopped of tongue.
The soundtrack is very easy to your ears but it kind of
dissolves into the movie, and you end up not really thinking
about it too much, and the worst thing is, I don't know if
that's a good or a bad thing. There are some of those classy
violin strings though and some averagely creepy Japanese
piano music that resembles a lot to the music in Ringu.
A clever, well thought out, disturbing horror drama, which
deserves almost all the credit that it can get. So... why
didn't I give it five stars? Well, you see, I didn't really
understand the ending, so it didn't make much sense to me.
If you still haven’t seen this, I suggest you go rent it now
as it's available in most countries... But be warned... this
is not suited for everyone, and it is very
gruesome and disturbing.
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