<DIV>Just out of interest, aside from the UK, where has Audition been shown on television?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jim.<BR><BR><B><I>Mark Nornes <amnornes@umich.edu></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>On Jan 10, 2006, at 8:43 AM, Aaron Gerow wrote:<BR><BR>> I don't know if it "proves" his violence is not gratuitous, but I do <BR>> have an old article that makes a case for his thematic importance:<BR>><BR><BR>OK, so what I was obliquely trying to suggest is that standard <BR>definitions of "gratuitous" won't work so well for Miike. Thanks to the <BR>irony and self-conscious, "light" approach to everything he does, the <BR>very "gratuitousness" of the violence is in its own way "thematic." I'd <BR>be very impressed if you could get Audition on television without <BR>censorship, though. Go for it.<BR><BR>Markus<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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