Audition

[Dave Monroe]

Oops, just sent John a response, not noticing this had
been posted to the list, so, in a nutshell, yeah, the
Japanese really have that Theater of Cruelty ((c)
Antonin Artaud) thing down.  I saw a puppet production
of an Artaud play, can't recall the title, but puppet
dismemberment aplenty.  Think an avant-garde Meet the
Feebles.  But it was the sounds that really got to you
...

But don't want to spoil anyone's fun (much less
dinner), so ... then again, I knew SOMETHING was going
to happen.  I'd be really interested in what somebody
who had not even a vague idea of what they were in for
might say.  Audition plays its first half or so far
straighter than Mullholland Drive ever possibly could.
 A sweet romance movie, and then ...

I didn't realize there was more than one Ring, but
I've the full-on Japanese version on tape.  I just
went hunting for a director on the IMDB
(http://www.imdb.com) and that's what came up.  So
pardon any confusion.  And there's a sequel, what
appears to be a prequel, and a teevee series as well
...

But, in the meantime, do see ...

Hunter, Jack.  Eros in Hell: Sex, Blood and Madness
   in Japanese Cinema.  London: Creation, 1999.

http://www.creationbooks.com/titles/1871592933.html

And a coupla sites I should have consulted ...

http://www.fjmovie.com/horror/

http://dreamwater.org/yurei/encyc.html

Oh, er, uh, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon.  Okay ...

--- John Bailey <johnbonbailey at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Regarding Audition...your reaction to the film is
> pretty much in accord with those of everyone else
> I've spoken to. It's the physical response, the 
> turning-away which I found really fascinating. I
> looked away too.... 

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