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S3E5.5: Audition
🕑 Added 2023-11-02 10:03:32 +0000 UTCIt's time for the KILL JAMES BOND HALLOWEEN SPECIAL OOOooooOOOO(ghost noise). Two years ago, Devon picked Van Helsing. Last year, Abi picked Jennifer's Body. This year it falls to Alice to pick our non-struck spooktacular, and she's lovingly curated Audition, a film about a japanese misogynist making a series of extremely poor decisions.
Joining us this week is none other than Trinket, from the podcast 24 Bauer Party People!
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Comments
Mildly invested
Well as the oldest and largest marlin would become female
Wolfman Jack
See, after all this? I kinda want to recommend William Lustig's "Maniac", from 1980, just to see their analysis... But it is a hell of a watch, even today.
Andrew Hanson
This film wouldβve been totally different if his mate had told him about Tapple, or heβd answered a random Line DM.
Keti
not only did dating services exist, but, seeing as he wanted a perfect submissive wife, he couldve skipped the whole weinstein scheme and gone for an omiai. but i suppose that a nakodo would actually find a suitable partner lol
I recently read In The Miso Soup, which is a book written by the same author who wrote the novel Audition is adapted from. I watched Audition last night and there was some interesting overlap in themes and social commentary between Audition and Miso Soup. It's cool that Trinket mentioned dating services bc that and the sex trade at large play a major role in Miso Soup so obviously the author (Ryu Murakami) had a lot of thoughts to share about transactional relationships and the creepy power imbalances they create. It's an interesting book but I can only lightly recommend it bc it's verrrrrrry uncool and gross about women in a way that does not feel constructive towards any larger statement or purpose. Read at your own risk π¬
thejackalope231
some of the movie description sounded familiar, and like a movie I'd enjoy watching, so I was wondering why I hadn't. Then we got further into the episode and I remembered. π¨ Just hearing or reasing the description of those final scenes freaks me out, I can't imagine actually watching the damn thing
