A Comparison of Two Films: Ring and Audition

A Comparison of Two Films: Ring and Audition

The two horror films in question are Ring and Audition. They have many

similarities, such as the message, the plots, the protagonists and the

themes. These similarities portray and tell us about the concerns of

modern Japanese culture.

The message of Ring is don’t treat others badly just because they are

different. Dr Ikuma killed Sadako and made Shizoku a circus freak just

because they were different. The message of Audition is never judge a

book by its cover. Aoyama saw Asami as polite, beautiful, classy and

obedient, because of her looks and what he read about her. So, in

modern Japanese society people treat others differently because of

their differences from others. This is a concern because it portrays

Japanese society as “blind”, because Japanese society doesn’t seem to

look within a person.

The plot of Ring is a mysterious video kills whoever views it, unless

that viewer can solve its mystery. The plot of Audition is that lonely

Aoyama wants to get married again after his wife died, and has an

audition and gets drawn to a young woman called Asami, who does not

appear to be who Aoyama thinks she is. Both films have mysteries which

end in twists, which are common in horror films. In Ring, the

stock-situation is one of gothic horror, without any blood and gore

but mysterious deaths. The colour for this type of horror film is

black, as it is dark and mysterious. By contrast, the stock situation

in Audition is full of blood and gore. It is more like the modern

horror films. The colour for this type of horror film is red, because

it is full of blood and gore. Both films teach us about vengeance in

modern Japanese culture, which is inevitable. They tell us that there

are some people that like to kill others that are innocent.

The main protagonists of Ring are Asakawa and Sadako, heroine and

villainess. The main protagonists of Audition are Aoyama and Asami,