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Release Date: 04 June, 2002 Retail Price: $24.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: |
Audition Reviews
GREAT FOR HARDCORE HORROR FANS
As it is said, the real horror films are international. Anyone who has seen this movie will easily tell you it has the most shocking final 15 minutes in all of horror films. The extras on this version are A++, featuring all:
*Director Interview
*Select a Scene Director Commentary
*Director Introduction
*Photo Gallery
*Bravos 100 Scariest Movie Moments Segement
*Ryu Murakama Interview
*ORIGINAL JAPANESE VERSION WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Somewhat overrated
Audition has one of the most glowing reputations of any foreign horror film. Everytime I tell someone that I am a horror fan, most of the time I get the response: "Have you seen Audition?!?!?!" Well, I can finally say yes. And I must say that I was a little disappointed with the results. It would have been much better for me to watch the film without having any preconceived notions, but as I must review the film as is, I'd have to say it was disappointing.
The film is very Hitchcockian, in the fact that Miike takes something that seems normal and boring and, by the end of the film, turns into something absolutely horrible. We are introduced to the main character as his wife dies, then, as we are propelled ahead 7 years, the widower goes to a friend and tells him he wants to remarry. The friend decides to use a fake audition so the man can find himself the perfect mate. The widower (I think his name was Aoyami...) picks a girl and starts to become pretty serious. Basically the whole film is the development of their relationship with each other, and the last half hour of the film is devoted to the underlying horror that has been building for the past hour and a half.
I won't reveal anything about the film's final 20 minutes, but I will say that it had me squirming in my seat. I can now see why Eli Roth chose to have Takashi Miike have a cameo appearance in Hostel. Overall, though, the film was pretty boring up until the end, and it all felt pretty pointless to me. Especially after hearing that Miike himself has said that the film is meant to have no social commentary. If that is so, then Miike is truly using horrific violence for no reason at all. Maybe just for the shock value, and that is no reason, in my opinion, to display horrific torture such as is displayed in the film's finale. I'm not one of these anti-blood, anti-violence people, I love good violence in film, but my problem with Audition was just that the violence was borderline offensive and, as I said earlier, appears to serve no purpose whatsoever.
The quality of the film is definitely high, and the last scene did do its job of making me extremely uncomfortable. But I can't give it a really good rating due to its slow pacing and ultimate pointlessness.
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