Audition.
Castrated Otherness, or slasher’s ability to transform sexual difference is what Audition all about. Asami, a female- monster with the history of abuse, lives in an empty apartment, containing a sack and a phone. For four days after the audition, she sits perfectly still next to the phone waiting for it to ring. When it finally does, she answers pretending that she never expected Aoyama to call. After several dates, she agrees to accompany him to a seaside hotel, where a smitten Aoyama intends to propose marriage. At the hotel, Asami reveals that she was abused as a child and shows burn scars on her body. After making love, Asami demands that Aoyama pledge his love to her and no one else. Asami is threat to normal, not only because her strange resume, behavior or her apartment. Her isolation, that she forces and past are merely terrifying combo. She projects her repression in the world, by picking men who are unable to keep the promise that she wants them to make. She is going to the audition assuming that she is knowing what is going to happen (even if Aoyama was planning serious relationships).
Humiliated and abused in childhood she uses power, dominance and manipulation to relieve herself, because she cannot be any different with people, which throws viewer back to their normality.
When she poisons him, injects him with a paralytic agent and starts torturing him. She tells him that just like everyone else in her life, he has failed to love only her. She cannot tolerate his feelings for anyone else, even his own son. She inserts needles into his eyes, giggling as she does so. She then cuts off his left foot with piano wire. After flashback Shigehiko kicks her downstairs, breaking her neck. Aoyama tells his son to call the police and stares at the dying Asami, who repeats what she said on one of their dates about her excitement on seeing him again.
Audition is truly shocking horror film that was made even more disturbing by its haunting beauty. The directors noted the character of Asami, stating that an audience generally sees: "female characters in a horror film as the helpless victim. This film leads you in one direction, skillfully hinting at a darker story line for the otherwise meek and slight Asami until the final 15 minutes where we are introduced to a merciless monster. A perfect personification of the irrational rage of a woman scorned". Asami is a sadistic female, monster that exists beyond normal and that’s why it is so hard to understand her motivation and actions.
