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If you want the full sledgehammer-to-the-stomach effect of Audition, stop reading this review now. Just watch it and take the consequences. At first glance, Takashi Miike's jack in the box of a movie works like a romantic comedy: amiable widower Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) decides it's time to find a new wife, and a friend suggests holding a fake audition to find the right girl. It soon becomes clear that there is something wrong with Aoyama's choice. This is no ordinary Fatal Attraction-style thriller, however; Audition slowly and carefully builds into a wrenching exploration of both deep male fears and the stereotype of the cute, submissive Japanese woman. Audition is by no means an easy movie to watch--even hardcore horror fans may have trouble--but it will stay with you for a long, long time. --Ali Davis
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2.0 out of 5 stars
A True "Femme Fatale",
By gonn1000 (Portugal) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Audition: Unrated Director's Cut (Widescreen) (DVD)
This asian romantic comedy-gone-wrong has a couple of neat and compelling ideas yet as a whole ends up being a disappointment. "Audition" tries to play with some conventions regarding the oriental female stereotyped role (shy, loyal and submissive women), delivering a strong and unexpected twist by the end of the movie. While this concept is somewhat interesting, the plot moves at a terribly slow and tiresome pace, being nothing more than flat mumbo-jumbo for about 3/4 of the movie. This effort is forgettable and not very enticing for the most part, presenting a japanese romantic comedy (not very funny though) about a middle-aged man that makes an audition in order to choose an actress for a movie. Simultaneously, he`s also trying to find a girfriend in the process (and he manages to get one). "Audition" develops this scenario and suddently delivers a strong twist that provides some shocking and disturbing scenes, giving a new perspective into the protagonist`s recent (and apparently innocent and fragile) girlfriend. Director Takashi Miike tries to raise subjects like the effects of isolation, the possibilty of love and the old "looks can be decieving" idea, yet this cinematic experience is flawed overall and just fails to convince. Sure, "Audition"`s last 20 minutes are strong and memorable material, still that doesn`t make for the unengaging and bland previous events. An interesting failure.
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One Of the Best Movies I've Seen!...so far,
By Vecha Keason (Mobile, AL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Audition: Unrated Director's Cut (Widescreen) (DVD)
I couldn't help but draw a relationship with Ringu 0. I'm probably sound ridiculous, but i felt the same way with this movie, at the end, that i did with Ringu 0. It seemed to me he loved her to the very end like in ringu 0, and hoping this never had to happen and it was all just a dream. I watched it at night thinking it was a horror flick, but in my opinion it was more freakish love than a horror film, yes i admit the scenes of chopped of tongues and fingers was a little scary, but i believe it was a weird love story....very weird....very...very...weird.
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Audition,
By C. James "marquisdeanomie" (United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Audition: Unrated Director's Cut (Widescreen) (DVD)
The other reviews will give you a description of what the film is about (though probably too much of one), so I won't dwell on the subject. It's a film that Should be seen and not described anyway. This Is one of my all time favorite films, so I am going to be incredibly biased. This film is excellent: Takashi Miike (the director) is perfectly in his element with this kind of film. The best way, I think, to describe this film is to say that Audition is to Japan, what Silence of the Lambs or Psycho is/was to America. The lead actress, Eihi Shiina, does a frighteningly great job in her film debut. Simply put, Audition is an awesome and exceptional film :).
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