Miiki almost effortlessly seems to combine ambiances and elements that you always considered impossible to combine.
"Audition" is a truly strange and unique film. Aoyama's life subsequently turns into a psychological nightmare, yet the film's main strongpoint is how Miiki never fully reveals whether this girl is a lethal psychopath out for vengeance against the entire male race or that all the horror exclusively spawns from the protagonist's guilt and paranoid mindset. She's a beautiful young girl, but extremely introvert and mysterious. Aoyama immediately falls for the beautiful ex-ballet dancer Asami and carefully begins dating her. A befriended movie-director wants to help Aoyama with meeting new women and arranges auditions for a non-existent movie. After seven years of living as a widower and devoting everything to raising his son, Aoyama wishes to remarry. At least, theoretically speaking it can! This unforgettable and undeniable Japanese cult monument unfolds as a stylish and slow better make VERY slow moving romance drama, yet gradually but surely turns into a stomach-churning and nerve-tangling paranoia thriller with one of the most astonishingly engrossing climaxes ever captured on film.
But you needn't worry about this any longer, as Takashi Miike's "Audition" can perfectly satisfy both extremes. Personally you wouldn't mind a fair portion of violence and chills, but you suspect and worry that the other half prefers a slow and story-driven film with the emphasis on character development. You only just started a relationship and you are about to watch your first movie together.
Everybody faces this situation in his/her life sooner or later.
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