Talk:Audition (1999 film)

message: Did I miss something or is this not a 1999 film?--Ajshm 18:15, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Hard Candy is said to take inspiration from Audition. I haven't seen HC - is it true?--Shtove 01:15, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems a bit of a stretch.  Aside from each featuring scene in which a woman subdues and tortures a man, they don't seem very similar to me at all.  If there were a quote from the screenwriter or director indicating an influence, I might believe it, but even then I don't see how it would be particularly relevent or useful to this article aside from trivia.--Vlad the Impaler (talk) 17:15, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hard Candy 

message: Does Aoyama really reveal to the girl that the auditions were fake? I don't remember that happening. Shinji nishizono 20:58, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: *I always interpreted it as her taking revenge because he had loved people other than her and therefore lied to her (i.e. because he loved his son and his late wife)
* I don't recall it being said either, the only explanation given to Asami that I remember was that the production had fallen through. --Darquefaerie 12:50, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Plot Query

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thread_title:  YouTube links 

message: Why is there a remake section with nothing in it?  Re-add it when you got something.  Jonmwang 06:59, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remake 

message: What is the name of the drug the girl injected into the guy that paralyzed him but made it so he could still feel pain? 71.3.218.205 (talk) 01:13, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Injection

message: It's not totally clear whether any of the torture etc. really happens but the plot summary assumes waking up in the hotel was the only part that wasn't real. I definitely think her waiting by the phone with the sack and every event after he sleeps with her in the hotel is a dream. If anything that's the more plausible scenario as several impossible/surreal things happen in the psycho-Asami scenarios. I'm not sure the value of writing the other interpretation instead of writing what the audience actually sees e.g. "Shigeharu appears to wake up in the hotel room..." and allowing readers to have their own interpretation 98.239.189.230 (talk) 03:34, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed.  Although I've always been puzzled by the last third of the film, I just recently re-watched in a university course on horror films.  The professor suggested that all the apartment scenes and everything after Aoyama wakes up to find Asami missing is actually a nightmare with him projecting his misogyny/womanizing onto Asami, making her a monster, which would then make the next to last scene of him waking up back in the hotel room with Asami not a dream, but his actual waking life before he falls back asleep to the nightmare.  Obviously this is someone else's interpretation and I wouldn't want to make it the wikipedia version, but I think it just illustrates that the reality and non-reality parts of this film shouldn't be declared too rigid.--Vlad the Impaler (talk) 05:16, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: How cool would it be if we were both from Dana Och's class?98.239.189.230 (talk) 18:34, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

text: Ah, to give credit where credit is due, the interpretation of the "psycho-Asami" episodes as purely dream was articulated in Robert Hyland's article "A Politics of Excess: Violence and violation in Miike Takashi’s Audition," from the anthology Horror to the Extreme: Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema--Vlad the Impaler (talk) 17:20, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Plot Summary issue