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Monday, November 03, 2008

Perfect Blue

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There wasn't anything good on TV to watch yesterday so I thought I'd watch an anime DVD from Steve's extensive collection while I did the ironing. I thought I'd try Perfect Blue, which was done by the same guy who did Paprika and Millennium Actress, both of which were films that Steve and I had liked.


It's a psychological thriller. The synopsis on Rottentomatoes.com:

A surprisingly thoughtful analysis of the Japanese pop icon phenomenon. Mima is an ex-pop idol who was worshipped by the masses before fashion dictated otherwise. In order to salvage her career, she decides to drop music and pursue acting. A soap opera role is offered but Mima's character is less clean cut than desired. Regardless, she agrees and events take a turn for the worse. She begins to feel reality slip. She discovers (imagines?) her identical twin, a mirror image that hasn't given up singing. Internet sites appear describing every intimate detail of her life and a figure stalks her from the shadows. Her friends and associates are threatened, and killed, as Mima descends into a dangerous world of paranoid delusion. She fears for her life and must unravel fact from illusion in order to stay alive.



I talked to Steve about the movie after he came home from work. He told me about how he totally loves it; I told him that I thought it was a good movie too, but the thing that kind of spoiled it for me was that I figured out the ending :-). There were some great film sequences in there though. One of our favorites was how a certain part got you so confused and you started to doubt yourself the same way the main character was starting to doubt herself. That was well done :-).

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