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Movie Review: Audition

Audition took me by surprise. It began as a sad sad love story. Woman passes away in a hospital bed with the husband(Aoyama) by her side just as her young child enters the room with a diorama to show her. Aoyama then starts a production company and works his ass off trying to be the best father in the world. One day teenage son tells him that he should remarry because he isnt getting any younger. He’s too chicken to hit the singles scene so his friend decides to hold an audition for a movie that is really a screening test to choose a new wife.

Along comes Asami who used to be a ballet dancer. Classy, beautiful and demure - how the heck could she be single? But she is and Aoyama falls in love with her. They meet up for dinner and drinks. Ayami slowly reveals her abused childhood. One night she lies down naked on a bed and shows him all the scars on her body. The next logical step is to make passionate love. When he wakes up, Asami is gone. He then begins the search for him but everybody connected to her is either missing or gone.

The movie then descends into a David Lynch-ian dream sequence hell. There is no way to describe what happens next. It’s just shock, horror and repulsion. From a love story, we have come full circle to a horror movie? This movie plays with the mind. It’s artistic and b-movie all at the same time.

You’ll be wondering wtf happened at the end, while you’re humming ‘deeper, deeper and deeper‘ along with the hopelessly insane(but beautiful) Asami.

3 out of 5 stars.

needle anyone?

pins not needle.

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feeding some…being….. with her own vomit. That’s about the only thing I remember from that movie.

I heard this was/is a truly sicko movie.