Audition
The horror film has a special use for the young female body. How often does one crescendo with some girl in a tight white T shirt β if not Jessica Biel then someone pretty similar β running endlessly, screamingly away from a scaggy male assailant with a hook/axe/chainsaw/knife? Meanwhile a man with a Steadicam aimed right at the young womanβs breasts in turn runs backwards away from her, to the nodding appreciation of the largely male audience. Audition turns the tables β a sad sack of a Japanese salaryman pretends to be a producer holding auditions for a film. In reality heβs doing try-outs for something more permanent and less well paid β … Read more