Perfect Blue

As the Halloween season moves steadily along, I was wondering: who else has seen this movie?

Perfect Blue is probably my fav psychological horror film ever.

I hesitate to say 'horror' with the term becoming synonymous slasher but really it is like an animated Hitchcock film.

edited 14th Oct '14 10:05:44 AM by Memers

I admit I cried at the chase scene with Mima and her semi-imaginary Evil Twin toward the end. :( Then again, I first saw it when I was 16, so I kind of got in over my head. ^_^;;

edited 26th Oct '14 11:21:34 AM by Demetrios

The "So I'm not dreaming..." sequence is all kinds of fucked. Damn.

I intend to watch it and the live-action equivalent somewhere down the line.

I have this one funny memory of it. My friend Max and I were watching it one day. During the part with the concert, he was starting to take note of all the qualities that made Mima attractive. Then I said "I call her" (as in I would date her). Then he put on an angry pout and showed me the wrong part of the peace sign, and we had a good laugh.

I've seen it a long while ago, so I don't remember much. I do remember liking it for the genre it's in, though. I also remember it being less of a Mind Screw than what I've read other people claim it is.

I watched it in middle school I think. My little sister used to imitate Mima's idol performance in the start haha.

I remember the rape-ish scene being really bizarre to watch though. Actually the nudity was unlike any other anime I had watched before it so that got to me a bit, admittedly.

I only saw it once but it was pretty good. It came on HBO and they showed Tokyo Godfathers before too. I know Encore WAM and STARZ something used to show some killer anime as well.

edited 26th Oct '14 12:18:18 PM by Vertigo_High

Yes it was. x_x I can still remember the discussion Max and I had about it. ^_^;; About what would happen if something like that were to happen in real life. The stripper would sue, the stripper's family would sue. Heck, there'd be so many lawsuits that that strip club would get bulldozed and turned into a parking lot. For carriage horses.

Just finished this. The question I'm left with is was Me-Mania real, and what his fate in the story? Because we see him in "reality" and Rumi references him to Mima's confusion. Later, he attacks Mima but his body isn't there afterward, so Mima imagined this attack, but Rumi still says that Me-Mania failed. Maybe the attack happened and Rumi killed him afterward, but she also killed Tadakuro and Me-Mania by stabbing out their eyes. guess she hid the bodies, and also the bloodied clothes from when the photographer was killed that Mima later found.

Also, if Rumi thought she was Mima this whole time then why didn't she just kill Mima immediately after Me-Mania attacked?

Also-also, I understand that this film uses "shared psychosis" but it seems odd that we just transition to Mima fully recovered and mostly fine after this film's events. Most of that traumatizing stuff was real to her, and the rape scene is what caused the stress that gave Rumi's machinations power/made Mima's hallucinations real. Plus Mima was in such a state that she apparently saw herself instead of Rumi towards the end.

Also-also-also I'm told there's an R-rated cut of this movie... considering I've watched a rape scene, a couple of scenes involving nudity, eyes gouged, and a woman falling onto glass and smearing blood across her psychotic face - I'm curious what on earth the uncensored version is like.

I had it ruined that the movie would turn into a mindf-ck so I approached it determined to not get too lost once that started and used the earlier scenes to keep track of what was actually happening - thought it was pretty neat that the plot seemed to be about two people having hallucinations that impact one another - but then the plot did a 180 and focused on Mima's manager, and I'd had no idea that Rumi was actually suffering psychosis. Thought it was entirely Mima losing her mind and thinking that it was Rumi.

I also read that apparently the Japanese version made the ending more ambiguous with Rumi's voice actor stating the final line "I'm the real thing." Shame the English dub opted not to do that. I'd have really lost my sh-t if that had happened.

Overall, not a bad movie. I love that 90's style of animation. I just don't see movies that look like this anymore.

Edited by Soble on Jan 10th 2019 at 10:42:51 AM