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What other comments DON'T necessarily convey, however, is how much of this film takes place in the world of dreams, and how blurred the line between reality and fantasy is. But the girl who catches his interest (Asami Yamazaki) turns out to be a much better actress than he bargained for. What other comments here have done nicely is summarize what "Audition" is "about." A man (Shigeharu Aoyama) mourning the loss of his wife looks to find the perfect woman to replace her, and he holds bogus auditions for an ostensible film role in order to find her. In fact, in structure and tone, this film reminded me of Lynch's "Mulholland Drive," and if Lynch didn't have his own unique style and brand of film-making, I might wonder if he was inspired in part by this film when he made his own. It's really more of a feverish psychological drama along the lines of a David Lynch film. Which is a shame, because "Audition" is quite a bit more than a mere horror movie. But this is the director's fault when you set out to shock your audience as much as Takashi Miike does in this film, you can't blame the audience if all they remember about your film is the shocking part. There are about 15 minutes of "Audition" that everyone remembers and talks about, and about 95 minutes of movie that you'd think didn't even exist if you listened to others' comments. I just think it's an interesting way to view this movie and also gives it more merit than being "that movie that has the shocking scenes" Maybe it has nothing to do with that hahaha. Then obviously the story of the lead woman is tragic and I feel once again leads to this power struggle between genders, the men in her life take and take and take from her. It is power that they think they have because they are men. From the start where the men are actually "Auditioning" people for them to date. My take away from this film is it wants to look at the gender dynamics and gender roles of Japan. I think that part could be slightly refined. As if they had a lot to explain and they just threw it all in that one part to try and catch the audience up a little bit. The dream sequence? It felt like sort of a dump of information.
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This was the part I took a small issue with.
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It begins to recapture the attention of the audience.
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The middle for me does sag a tiny bit but only because the gears sort of switch to a full blown romance but then the suspense starts to creep back into the movie. It moved, it built character and it set up themes from the get go. So I mostly ignored this information and just watched the film. I knew literally nothing about it apart from it had a shocking part. The "hype" or what ever you want to call it, that surrounds this film was completely lost on me.