“Audition” is a Japanese horror film by director, Takahi Miike. It's one of the films I chose to watch from the list of suggested films of the blogspot.
The film is about a man, who had recently lost his wife and is influenced, by his son, to seek out a new wife by holding auditions for a new wife, under the guise of it being a for a film.
The film explores mainly the subject of objectification, most towards women that go through the titular audition, as well as the consequences. This a very controversial subject matter, especially with current events happening. The main character, Shigeharu Aoyama, doesn’t actually show signs of knowing that he is objectifying these women through the auditions, as he mainly sees this as being able to get a new wife.
The film has two ways of being viewed: The first part being that the first half of the film can be seen as a man wanting to find wife again after the loss of his first, and the later half being a torture based horror film.
The torture and horror part for the film comes from one of the women who goes through the audition process, gets accepted, and then finds out the reason for the audition. She then paralyzes him, and then subjects him to physical abuse and harm for what he had done. This is an incredibly gruesome story, yet interesting, from a storytelling process. The subject of objectification is turned upside down when she touchers him for objectifying all the women in the audition, as punishment for not only Aoyama, but also objectification that is happening in today’s sex and body obsessed culture
Overall, “Audition” is a gruesome, and psychological thriller about the horrors and consequences of objectification. This creates a story that can be seen as a dark reminder of the dangers of treating individuals as anything but.
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