S3E5.5: Audition
It'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 (31)
Well as the oldest and largest marlin would become female
Maybe he did and he's transmasc now. MtFtM if you will.
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.
This film would’ve been totally different if his mate had told him about Tapple, or he’d answered a random Line DM.
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
Release the uncensored joke pleaaaaase god I need it
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 😬
I may actually read that but only as a hate research topic. 🙏
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. 😨 Just hearing or reasing the description of those final scenes freaks me out, I can't imagine actually watching the damn thing
May I suggest, rather than fire nonce, "pyrononcer?"
Interesting to hear the sitcom comparisons, since Miike did the same thing with Happiness of Katakuris.
This gave me life while at a conference this week
Alich Hauntwell Skelly, Abighoul Skelethorn, and Deathvon
Lots of fish switch gender as they age, it's pretty cool.
Would it be appropriate to call young fish "roe?"
I love your work, Trinket. Hope your next photoshoot goes well~
I have always enjoyed the unfathomable Rizz of being a stegosaurus stan
"what's your favorite dinosaur" is a powerful first date topic tbh
the metamour joke made me get up and walk into the kitchen
I really enjoyed this talk, regarding trauma I think the horror genre in general is absolutely dreadful at representing it. A particularly heinous recent example for me was Smile, one of the most insensitive and emotionally stunted movies I've perhaps ever seen.
My partner and I had this exact conversation the other day. We watched Smile and Talk To Me less than a week apart, and we lamented what a hopeless thesis they had on trauma.
I want to know what Alice's bleeped out joke was, but not at the same time. Funny timing of this episode, my dad was just telling me about recently seeing it and not being prepared AT ALL for what he was in for. He doesn't like horror movies.
I saw the title of this episode and the Kill Bill siren went off in my mind. 😨
How do you think I felt when Alice told me to watch it for work!!
Thank you for this episode, it was truly upsetting listening (complementary)
We are 30 minutes in and I've never been called out so many times in my life
"a film about a japanese misogynist making a series of extremely poor decisions" is a perfect summary of Audition
Spooky Day of the Dead everybody
Yall are right that Finding Nemo could have a trans story. Clownfish are born male. When the female of a group of clownfish dies, the most dominant male will take their place and become female. The males are also smaller and less aggressive than the female. So Marlin could become a Marlie but something tells me Disney isn't gonna do that any time soon
Marlene!!
24 Bauer Party People is fantastic, nice to hear Trin on here