Audition

Takashi Miike's 1999 film, famous for its shock value, though that's not really the point
nice skewerings of male complacency at points; almost Kitano-esque deliberate naivete of everything going right at the start
even there, though directoral flourishes indicate more
not using 360 rule throws things a little off-balance, as does not fixing the camera for the talking bits
mixture of style for the shots, some ping-pong, some two shots, a bit of panning
use of a pretty deep persepctive throughout, with large, looming faces in the foreground
settles into being pretty noir-ish; all narrative from male protagonists P.O.V., his santity questioned, all about him investigating a woman
strong expressionist lighting (some shadow, not black necessarilly), canted angles, bizarre and Lynch-esque grotesques the man meets on his journey
film becomes the man's own psychodrama, in impressive not-continous-narrative stretch of montage that seem to be a kind of surrealist memory
the gore isn't a particularly interesting part of the film really, the psycho stuff is more interesting, the intersections of realities becoming touching, on occassion
however nice it is to critique the male complaceny, this film does in the end portray a women as a sexually-defined psychotic, violent and guilty
if it is a fantasy, that doesn't really stop that we do see the women in this film entirely from the male perspective
an interesting and at times formally exciting view of how men see woman, if not always the most subtly executed