Saturday, September 17, 2005
Friday Movie Review (late again)
I couldn't sleep at all last night. So I cycled through the movie channels and stopped on the indy channel and watched about 80% of this Japanese thing called Audition. Man, was that a mistake. It's billed as a horror movie, but I find it difficult to describe. More like a look into the depraved soul of the Japanese people. About 10 years ago I rented an anime film that turned out to be hentai, or pornographic anime. Not good natured cartoon sex, but evil minded, rape incest with multiple mechanical penises defiling every hole. Another brief glimpse. I know it's wrong to judge a whole society by a few films here and there (Is it fair to judge us on the basis of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre or The Last House on the Left? Maybe.), but could we produce anything like Audition. I pray to God we can't.
Anyway, if a movie's success is judged by how shocking it is, this movie is a huge success. The 'tag line' is "she always gets a part." If you ever see it, you'll know how macabre and funny that line is. 115 minutes, no real nudity or sex, about 90 minutes of boredom and 25 minutes of wanting to be ill. I can't recommend it, but I couldn't look away either.
Anyway, if a movie's success is judged by how shocking it is, this movie is a huge success. The 'tag line' is "she always gets a part." If you ever see it, you'll know how macabre and funny that line is. 115 minutes, no real nudity or sex, about 90 minutes of boredom and 25 minutes of wanting to be ill. I can't recommend it, but I couldn't look away either.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 8:06 AM 
