It was great up until the last episodes. One of the dramas that shows the best a female main character that is not only strong, but ambitious and perfectionist at what she does. At first, you may hate her a bit for how pitty she acts, but she's way stronger, smarter and better than the first impression. She's great at her job, but as much as she is a genious as an anchor, her life and humanity/emotional intelligence are a mess. There is no "women are pure and innocent" here. No "Omg he kissed me!". There are also sexual harassment/rape subject being discussed, so I recoment not to watch If you are triggered by it.

They criticize the sexism, specially with "ageism" (status of a women being entirely based on how young and pretty she looks), the unfairness, the justice system, the corruption of the richests, the jealousy, the hatred and many other bad emotions. Basically they rewrite the term "don't judge a book by the cover" as a drama, and they remember us that ALL characters are ment to be like humans, and nobody is perfect. Nobody is a Saint, nor a complete sinner. But everything we do may affect our lives and the people around us.

The end just ruined it to me. They turned something great into a smaller and pitty situation when it could have been way bigger. I do understand their intentions, but they lost many better plot conclusions.

I do recomend watching, tho. Just... do not care about who the killer is or the reasons. The characters, acting, and side plots are worth it.

(PS: I would say Hye-ran seems a bit like "Korean version of Annalise". I felt like watching episodes from How To Get Away With Murder because of her personallity and actions in some scenes. Obviously, not totally the same, but their vibes and main strenghts/weaknesses are somehow similar)

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Most people will not understand how great this movie actually is, and will not even try to understand what it is about.

 If you just want another simple murder and blood movie, don't even try to watch this. Watch the movie looking deeper. "Audition" is not a movie for you to enjoy horror, but for you to bleed while watching. If you want to reflect and suffer a little bit, it will be your perfect slice of sadism.

 The movie is about sexism and how Japanese society force women into submissive positions. Finding a pretty, young looking wife, pick her on a fake audition, lying to women, making they show their weakness. Get the one who would never be "the top one", but with good enough prospects and background. Praise a woman for being "submissive and obedient", the "perfect wife". Use your position of power.

 A woman who has gone through struggles of a really hard life, full of abuses and men tortouring her, enjoying themselves, meets a guy who wants full control and plays with women and find himself in love with a girl closer to his son's age. Better saying, he actually falls for how troubled her life is, and how she lost her desire to be alive, not for her qualities. "Is that all you want to ask her?".

 Some things are just not real, but showing how Japanese 90's society abused women, and how abusive men do know what they are doing is wrong, but their only feeling of guilty end up being the fear that, one day, the abused ones would turn out to be as sadistic as they were to them.  Every word in the movie is perfectly used to build a bigger scene. Pay attention to each.

 The story telling works very well with the positive x negative feeling. It changes abruptly many times from dream to reality, good to bad, violence and sweetness, from dominant to submissive, and from submissive to dominant. The positive feeling in this movie, however, is very ambiguous. How can people take the desire to be alive out of someone be any better than killing them? How can one lie be any better than another? The positivety, I'd say, is the same false hope the main character gives to someone so hurt and depressed, by a relationship build up on a fake.

 I love, however, how the main character was made as a great and loved single dad to his son, but that did not stop him from being a sexist. If you take out the female protagonist, you actually can see a very realistic world, not always being black or white. He's not the worst person, he's both good and bad, and he can make you feel empathy, and so does she.

 There are very graphic scenes. If you're weak to torture and blood, I'd recommend you not to watch.

 As I said before, the movie is not for everyone. Just watch it If you are really going to imerse yourself on the psychological part, not just watch because of the "horror" tag.

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