Audition (1999 film)

I’ll not outright spoil more than what all contemporaneous media has given away about “Audition”, which is to say the uninitiated no doubt regard it as at least superficially similar to works featuring unrepentant violence such as “Saw” and “Hostel”. It’s a poor comparison, really. “Audition” seduces you into its world as its characters seduce each other before pulling its ultimate trick and revealing itself to be ruminations about gender politics, cycles of abuse, and what it means to give up part of yourself in pursuit of love, and executing all this, despite everything, seamlessly. Beautiful, thoughtful, brutal, and masterful.

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