"This wire can cut through flesh and bone easily"

Brian, there's another thread in the DVD forum about "Audition" started by Don:

<a href="http://chud.nexcess.net/board/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=13&t=001151&p=" target="_blank">http://chud.nexcess.net/board/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=13&t=001151&p=</a>

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Anyway, I think that what we see are dream versions of what he truly knows/suspects about Asami's history. While drugged, we also hear information that was not shared to us earlier (like the restaurant scene). It seems to imply that Aoyama hears what he WANTS to hear, and NOT the real truth.

Then when he wakes up back in a hotel with Asami (this is when his son returns from school), that was just wishful thinking that everything was just a nightmare. It emphasizes the point that Aoyama wants to reject Asami's past and sinister present state of mental health. In fact, despite having his left foot cut off and multiple pins stuck on his person, he still longs and cares for Asami. In some way, it's a role reversal of typical abuse when a man does it to a woman. Here we have a typical submissive Japanese female abusing (an understatement) Aoyama, yet through it all, Aoyama does not care and continues to love her (this is why he hears her speak and see her lips move despite the fact that she's dead).

Voltes, I like to think the exact opposite. I see the movie as about the guilt Aoyama feels for having taking advantage of Asami, and he has to demonize her because he is wrestling with his inner guilt for saying (as Bruce Campbell might put it) "pillow talk."

That to me is more morrifying, the guilt we live with when we know we've said white lies to get what we want.

Andre, wow, that's definitely opposite with my interpretations. I will be watching this film again in your perspective.

I would have thought the entire ending was a dream if not for my fave scene in the movie with the jumping bag.

Crap...I totally took it that the whole torture was reality and even her talking despite the broken neck. Now I'm confused. Have to ask ladykoel what she thought...

Interrupting this thread t osay-

Hey Voltes!!!! Welcome back you crazy man!!!! PM/Email me!!!!! I love exclamation points!!!!!

2002

Damn. My excitement doomed my reading comprehension. I miss that dude.

Indeed Scott. Indeed.

Voltes is in Vegas which makes him Uber-Cool as is.

Fuck I need to find some movie friends everyone I showed Auditon too thought I was out of my mind for liking it as much as I do.

What do they know? NOTHING! Obviuosly