Takashi Miike - Audition (Odishon) short movie review

I’ve come across the Japanese producer Takashi Miike for the second time and I could say that he gained me as a supporter of his style of making movies. The short reel “The Box” has given me the first opportunity of hearing of Miike. I could dispute a certain accent of pure and un-hidden violence (which is in the specific nature of Asians), but I couldn’t dispute the fact the Miike certainly CAN make better horror movies than the ones produced at Hollywood.

As I was saying, my second encounter with Miike was called “Audition” (”Odishon” in Japanese). I wouldn’t relate about the movie, because is senseless; there are dvd rentals for this. The movie, which is categorized as a horror movie, is not that scary at all. Maybe it’s because of its extreme parts (feet chopping, needles-in-the-eye sticking) that the movie was categorized this way. It’s a movie about revenge (what else might’ve been?), but about a kind of “mazy” revenge. As a matter of fact, someone is hardly paying the others’ mistakes. The woman is, as always, the deadly and also the hidden suffering element, which becomes from a frail person a monstrous one. On the one side we are able to understand her, though the masculine character is plaintive. We can see “Audition” as a more relevant “Kill Bill”.
I’m stressing once again on the obsession of the Asians of using a child’s figure as a starting point for a horror movie (see also “Ringu”) and on the eternal problem of pedophilia. However, after a time the movie is taking place on many plans and we don’t certainly know if the woman has accomplished her own plan. The provident dream of Aoyama is interrupted by the hardcore scenes, and the ending allows us to choose our own interpretation. Maybe Miike wanted to put the atrocities into a parallel and fantastic plan.

And I’m wondering: does it worth to have Eihi Shiina on top, if this involves feet chopping and needles-in-the-eye sticking?

[tags]Takashi Miike, Miike, Audition, Horror, Odishon [/tags]

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