Audition (1999)

A horror movie by director Takeshi Miike of Ichi The Killer fame.

I think it was probably this film tha got Miike international recognition as an independant director. K, onto the review-

A man's wife dies of cancer or something. His son brings her a castle or something he made himself from card to her bed, then the film cuts to 10 years later or something, where the guy is fishing with his now late teenage son. The guy considers getting remarried. He works with a television company, and his boss proposes an audition for a female lead, and also an attempt to hook his buddy up with a nice girl. The two audition tons of women before we clearly see who the chosen girl will be. She looks as sweet as pie, plays the inocent type of girl to an almost comical extent, basically feeding the guy the white lie that 'all the men I've met have been b'stards, you're not like that right? Your different right?' The information she gives about herself checks out, though what she failed to mention that her last boss no longer exists...

Takeshi Miike's intent behind this film was to show 'how terrifying people are.' There's also lines that are metaphor's for ordinary life 'it's only when you go through extreeme pain that you truely know yourself.

I actually thought it wasn't long enough, and there was probably more distrubing scenes he could have thrown in there, etc.

My rating: 7.2/10