Synopsis for Audition (Written by deusdiabolus on imdb): A lonely Japanese widower whose son is planning to move out of the house soon expresses his sadness to a friend and fellow film producer, who becomes inspired to hold an audition for a non-existent film so that the widower can select a new potential bride from the resulting audition pool. The widower ultimately becomes enamored with and fascinated by one particular young woman...but first impressions can often be horribly wrong.
Audition is one of the most fucked up films I have seen in my entire life, and I have seen my share of those. It features some of the most disturbing scenes I have ever seen, and after I have finished it I declare that I have now a special fears of wires. The storytelling is confusing at time, you don't know where you stand up, what's reality and what is dream, but all that doesn't matter, because it all a nightmare, a twilight zone you'd wish you haven't stepped a foot inside. It a powerful horror which spend long time building up the drama of the grieved widower who is seeking companionship after years of mourning the lost of his beloved wife, but in the scheme he and his friend come up with to find a new wife, the hunter becomes the hunted in a sharp turn of events.
If you ask me it might be the film that paved the way for torture porn, but whatever films followed it they sure lack the originality and shock that this film has. Be aware this film will scar you with some of the most hard to watch images you would see in film, and I am likely will make sure never to watch it again, but that doesn't take of how much I was impressed by it, it was well written, acted and directed film, and I will give it
4/5.
