Perfect Blue the movie, released in Japan 1998-02-28, was directed by Satoshi Kon. Some of his other notable works were Paprika(movie), Paranoia Agent(series), Millennium Actress(movie), and last but certainly not least Tokyo Godfathers(movie). More so than the others Paprika and Perfect Blue certainly go hand in hand and probably even Paranoia Agent. I have seen all of these movies and all are some of my favorites, in that they offer something new, an original take. Another characteristic of these works that I truly enjoy is the sense of almost not being able to trust the perspective of the character. In each work we will be watching and in a moments notice no longer is what were seeing true reality but a manifestation of a fantasy in the case of millennium actress, or a nightmare in the case of perfect blue, or in the case of Paprika a dream that takes on a life of its own and worlds seem to blur ever closer to one another, the boundary of real and distorted perspective ever blurred. In the sense of never truly having an idea of what's going on, always being on your toes I really have a love for anything by Satoshi Kon.
As for the art of Perfect Blue(really any of the above mentioned titles) the style i personally enjoy and find to be of fantastic quality. The art has a certain affinity for doing a kind of rounder nose, not sharp, and a more realistic face design instead of whackier character designs usually inherent in most anime titles. The eyes of the characters are able to evoke the emotion that character is feeling without these do-hickie sort of expressions >< ^^ OO XX or the upside down 'U' to express happiness. Not to say I don't enjoy those techniques but I found the more realistic portrayal of humanity in the design to be refreshing and perfect for the atmosphere and over-all design of the show. Especially for being a 1990's anime I found the art enjoyable. I have a preference for the newer kind of stuff and art styles, the digital coloring kind of thing. Berserk and older ghost in the shell, while not bad, I found to be less clean than Perfect Blue. Art never really bothers me but when its cleaner, more polished, usually found in movies rather than series, which while understandable, I find to appreciate more. I believe Satoshi Kon worked also in the art of Akira which also sort of has the more round nose, a correlation I found both interesting and relevant. I didn't find the movement of characters choppy but if I had any complaints, it would be more in the pan out shots with a lot of people on one screen. The art seemed to at some parts become a tad lack luster. At some parts people that aren't main characters may get a tad distorted also but i actually enjoy that as your eye automatically focuses on Mima or who ever. Nothing is perfect. Over-all looking good. Some scenes like when Mima is doing the rape scene really stand out in my mind. The dark shadowy scene before the director yells 'action!' with the rowdy males actors getting ready for the scene. The lighting shows their malicious grins, their shifty malevolent senpaku eyes all looking at Mima like a hot meal. As if nothing but barbarism and carnal desire lurked in their minds, if I was acting I'd have been scared sh*tless. That art sold the scene, not to mention the music.
Ah, the music. Creepy to say the least. It wasn't entirely abundant but I to be honest am more of a 5cm per second and Ano Hanna music guy. I don't like it going all the time in the back ground since only sub consciously do I hear it and then when its played to have effect I'm desensitized to it. I love it when its played at key points to serve as a catalyst to emotion, making the experience more intense, longer, and therefor better! One of the better places this was used is when Mima is being chased by EvilMima(Rumi) as the music perfectly sets the desperation Mima feels to escape from a gruesome death. Mima's J-pop songs aren't bad I suppose but then again I'll listen to anything. Sound effects like vicious stabs and things being knocked around were also well done. Movie sounded good.
Voice acting was ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC, albeit I watched the subbed version of course but again it comes down to personal preference. I have no idea how the dub is but I imagine it isn't as well done. Perhaps not bad but I more often than not find original voice actor better with the exception of Beck and Inuysha's japanese voice acting which to be honest I can't say I care for. Nothing like a good guttural scream from a person being savaged by some manner of weapon i.e. knife,screw driver.
Now for the meat and potatoes of the whole thing. I'll basically walk through the movie while elaborating on some scenes I found to be especially well done. It all starts with a power rangers/ transformers reference or so I imagine. Mostly adults are in the audience and none seem to excited with the show. I felt bad for the actors kinda awkward, and even the kids thought it was cheap lol. Then the real reason everyones gathered... CHAM! this is a pop idol group which by no coincidence Mima is a member of. While singing we notice a deformed man on security detail admiring Mima a little to much, referred to as ME-Mania.
Then some people cause a ruckus, a food fight of sorts ensues and eventually the rowdy people leave after ME-Mania exhales on some dudes face and we learn this is Mima's last show with CHAM! and that she aspires to become an actress which Rumi, Mima's manager opposes but never the less Mima makes her decision.
To start Mima seems a bit sad with her decision to leave CHAM! but she's also notably excited to have a fresh start on a new path in life. She goes about her daily life in a very cramped and small apartment, cramped but cozy.
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| "Mima's Room" |
She reads about "Mima's room" in a love letter, the person writing they're always on the site...freaky I know. Can you say foreshadowing? It doesn't help when you have people sighing heavily in your phone. Then a fax saying traitor over and over. I would have had been worrying too much about cleaning my feces off the floor after crapping myself, then worry about that scary a*s fax. But thats just me. All this is setting the voyeuristic atmosphere that Mima is being stalked by a die hard fan. This especially holds true when the music starts and camera immediately pans out of Mima's window. This is probably one of the scarier things that can happen to a person, not feeling safe or comfortable anywhere, and of all places YOUR home. She then repeats "who are you?" and the camera then cuts to her rehearsing lines on a set. I love it!! First you think she's thinking who are you? that is faxing me and stalking me. Then you think oh she's just rehearsing. Finally after the movie has been watched it foreshadows Mima will eventually lose her grasp on reality and be conflicted with the activities she takes part in that go against how she feels, what she wants to do, and who she truly is. Any who I love that cinematic technique. I find it funny that the computer wasn't what it is today in the setting of this film. Internet not being as prominent, Mima doesn't know what "Mima's room" is or what a link is even after Rumi tries describing it.
The movie then shows for the first time how uncanny it is to see the alternate reality of a set with the feel of a waiting room, but then right off camera directors and TRUE reality. The operant word being TRUE. It shows how confusing things could be acting one moment, being for all intents and purposes a different person in a different world, and then flipping a switch as soon as the director yells "cut!" and be a different person again, who you truly are. Psychology has proven you are who you act like. Just the unnaturalness of it, acting, movies, gives me anxiety when I put myself in Mima's shoes. Almost as if while the movie is going, imagine if you didn't hear a "cut" and that movie became your reality. A trippy idea that Sotoshi Kon delivered very well. Gives me insight on some of the things Heath Ledger went through on his role as the Joker. After the acting who are you truly? Gives me shivers, but... let us move on!
Anyway a letter to Mima explodes when her manger guy Tadokoro opens it up. a piece lands saying the next one will be real. Pretty lucky that piece stayed in-tact lol! On a good note Mima gets a macintosh computer! Rumi helps the untech savvy Mima set it up. I gotta say that computer is old as sh*t! hahaha nice sponsor eh? Any way they get to talking about the exploding incident and Rumi plays dumb saying "oh that?" when Mima talks about what happend the other day. Rumi just plays it down saying don't worry it was a prank. I don't know... When i lose more than a soda cans worth of blood off a prank, I draw the line and say its more like attempted murder, BUT thats just me. Back then you had to type in whole URL's! Thank God for Y2K, everything regarding the computer since has been better ;) but Mima gets to the site Mima's room and at first what she thinks is flattering soon turns into HOLY SH*T THIS PERSON WATCHES ME 24 HOURS A DAY, after she reads on about how the author of the site knows even what foot she uses to get off the train and what groceries she buys, along with voice recordings of "who are you". yea... I know right?! Then a shot of a bloody body that is in the movie Mima's acting in currently, "Double Bind". After noticing she's only in three scenes with very little dialogue, Rumi and Tadokoro wonder if her leaving CHAM was worth such little attention and screen time. Tadokoro's argument is that Mima, though having a small role now, is still doing well in the critical period that will decide whether or not she can hack it as an actress. Rumi on the other hand wants Mima to refer back to being a pop idol, much like Rumi was so long ago(I smell bias!). Tadokoro says that the pop idol scene has changed since Rumi was in it. Ultimately Rumi is looking out for Mima's best interest and Tadokoro is money grubbing. Right then the two members of CHAM! walk in a conference room and low and behold have made it into the top 100 songs.
Some people walk into a store talking about "Double Bind" being a, coincidentally, boring psychological thriller, which is exactly what Perfect Blue is, minus the boring. Too bad for Mima. CHAM! does well and "Double Bind" not so much. Someone in the store says "somebody save Mima please!" and then a book previously concealing an eavesdroppers face, is shifted down to reveal...*lightning flash* ME-Mania, Mima's very own stalker. Quite a face I must say... Mima now aware of her probable stalker is now cautiously checking her surroundings, noticing people staring and then looking away, little things that before hand she would never have thought twice about. Like I always say(being a bit too weary of spiders) if you look for spiders your gonna find them, and the same can be said for anything. In a hysterical outburst brought on by fear she runs out of the sub-way. After hauling quite a bit of a*s she calms down takes in her surroundings and walks away. Though the camera in the department store front with the t.v.'s that shows who ever walks by on a multitude of televisions was very ominous just adding to that sense of being stalked that Mima already feels. She quickly brushes by her fans, waiting for a picture or a "hello", understandably, on her way into an office place. Though we know Mima is scared, her fans just think she's mean, not to mention her stalker was in the fray... so good move Mima. She then reads in the elevator that the person who caused the ruckus at her last concert was hit-and-run by someone. As you see Mima's look of concern and wonder "who the heck hit him?" we see the deformed man with duck teeth smile his over admiring smile and we immidiately know who the man's unknown hit-run culprit is. The elevator doors then close with Mima inside.
The next scene is a good one and is a prelude of things to come. While CHAM! celebrates getting 83rd on top 100 Mima asks whats going on. Rumi then tells her and we see everyone in CHAM! saying congrats and Mima is in the three person circle and I'm thinking WTF? Oh maybe its one of the songs Mima was in before she left the trio. Right? Mima says something and one of the members give her a reassuring tap on the shoulder...BOOM! Mima was just imagining it! This is just a first taste of how untrustworthy Mima's perspective is. Soon we won't now right from left, up or down :) but we'll at least have each other! and so we move foward! CHAM! is doing ok and Mima's next role has more dialogue and screen time. Happy times right!? We shall see. Next scene shes running around and boom! we find out that too was just a scene in the movie Mima's currently in. Like I said, a prelude of things to come....AND OH DO THEY COME!
There's some talking about what direction the movie Mima's in should take, where the director says he has a drastic idea that will change Mima's image if her agency allows it. A dirty smirk from him and then we find Rumi and Tadokoro arguing if Mima should do the scene. The scene in question is a RAPE scene. oh yes, we've seen them and they are for me some of the most uncomfortable scenes in a movie to watch. The forced carnal knowledge of a women. Very brutal, and in Perfect Blue it is no different. Except we get a different perspective. We get to see what happens when one is filmed. I imagine I'd be doing what the character in Perfect Blue does, which is apologize about what you are about to do beforehand. Even though its acting, in those seconds when the scene is going you really do have to become a savage and to the actress(I suppose maybe actor but I've never seen it) it must seem real enough, you get the feeling of being utterly powerless... Horrifying. And understandably this scene leaves Rumi in tears and even Tadokoro seems ashamed of what he's allowed face palming and feeling disgusted. Mima must have had no idea of what a rape scene truly entailed, thinking "I'm not really being raped" even laughing it off nervously to hide her disagreement. in fact I'd be so bold as to say no one had a real grasp on what was to come and how things after this point would spiral. After this point is when I start to loosen up my tie, crack open a cold bottle of Dr. Pepper, sit myself down in a comfy chair, open up my mind to over load setting and say What The F*ck is going on!? So bare with me. If you start to smell blood as this very lengthy review goes on, don't worry, its just coming out of my eye balls, YOUR fine.
But alas I've gotten ahead of myself. leading to the scene Mima sees her alternative inner Mima that says how Mima feels. OtherMima says I refuse to do the scene and she disappears as the train Mima's on, enters a tunnel. Right before the rape scene Mima wants to quit, it can be seen on her face but she continues on with it. As the strip club music starts Mima becomes a dancer seductively throwing her hips like Princess Peach in Brawl. Then the rape with the dirty music in the background creates a tension most palpable . During a "cut" while staff re-arrange the scene, with Mima's raper on top of her he says sorry and she says don't worry and the scene begins again with her screaming until tears roll down her eyes and everything mentioned above happens.
After the scene we see Mima unwinding in the what I can only imagine to be a make-up room. Tadokoro seems as though he is going to tell Mima she can quit but decides against it, or at the least say sorry. He then drives her home after a meal on him, and we the stalker ME-Mania as they drive by. Once home Mima, after holding in all her emotion up to this point seeks solace in her fish but upon going to feed them finds them floating.... belly up. This is the straw that breaks the llama's back. In one big flood of emotion she screams out her pain saying of course she didn't want to do it, but she couldn't let down those who were trying to get her to where she is. Then OtherMima rears her ugly head basically saying she knows what's best for Mima. Mima throws a pillow and OtherMima is gone and two of her fish swim joyously. No, I don't know if her fish being dead is a complete hallucination or if some really did die and some survive, I'll leave that up to you, I personally believe in the latter.
ME-Mania is blogging on "Mima's Room" again, much like I am without the stalking part, I am purely the teller of a tale ;) Mima is doing reviews on her movie she's in, in which she will become a key character. So she says it was a hurdle, the rape scene that is, that she had to jump to be a top tier actress. So she stays on the bright side. But her way of dressing is becoming notably more revealing and....sexy? I guess is the closest word to what I'm thinking, and she is definitely receiving a subtle image change that ME-Mania is none too happy about. Back on "Mima's Room" Mima is reading some of the stuff saying she didn't write that, to which OtherMima appears on the computer and says the true Mima did, her. Then music plays....
This music that plays at that moment sends shivers down my spine! Now I hate to get off tangent but... that music is some of the scariest and unnerving I've ever heard! Before even starting this beast review I for what ever reason recalled something about Durarara. If you don't want to read my ramblings by all means move on. Anyway on Durarara, I watched the whole series a week or two ago(late to the party I know) I heard that music when the red avatar joins the chat party writing scary stuff about cutting people. The setokai or what ever person, the possessed sword thing. I remember thinking I know I've heard this some where....and it was from Perfect Blue! all these years later it was in Durarara and boy is it OMINOUS! i just now after looking for the last three hours for this song i can finally put it here... I'm exhausted... after OMINOUS i looked for the song...jeeze. well I like it so I'm happy and total actual looking maybe an hour lol well I'm dedicated or crazy either way here :) baachiya mima perfect for perfect blue!ha!
After patronizing and condescending Mima, OtherMima makes her debut in real life(from Mima's perspective) as OtherMima steps out of the computer. OtherMima says a few more hurtful things and skips off in a very innocent fashion on some lightposts, she had hops! Then the director of Double Bind can be sween pulling into his parking place where a sign with double bind written on it, accompanied by some blood can be seen, covering his last name for his parking spot. He hears some Mima songs but due to echoes can't tell where from as he waits for the elevator in a parking garage. When the elevator arrives a boom box is sitting on the floor bump'n Mima music. When the elevator opens again...
Its a f*cking mess to put it LIGHTLY! lets just say that director won't get the chance to look himself in the mirror again to do soul searching. Then the siren and close up of a spinning red light, which one would think, oh an emergency ambulance or cop car in correlation to the murder which took place. Nope, a child's toy car siren, coulda fooled me, and they did. Some people joke about being the perpetrator in a crowd, then the real murderer takes a seat in front of them... small world. In a car ride Tadokoro tells Mima not to worry about the murder, and to smile. As she smiles OtherMima drives by and disappears in a white fog. As Mima runs after the car , traffic builds up and gets contankerous until Mima is forced to get back in the car and arrive at her photo shoot. Little does Mima know this is to be a nude photo shoot, very risque'. OtherMima taunts her and is then seen dancing with CHAM! as ME-Mania watches in delight, and films the show. I'm not sure if Mima and ME-Mania are now seeing the same delusion but lets not look to deeply into it :) yet... but I will say I like the look of ME-Mania's one twinkling little angel eye, like a child's on christmas morning. The contrast between the eye and his facial features is profound to say the least. Maybe a heads up to the fact that though he is a deviant, stalking, he has pure intentions in mind as he idolizes Mima and innocently adores and wants to protect her. Maybe he isn't so bad? Let's see.
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| "Bastards!" |
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| Mima with her CHAM! friends |
Then Rumi stops by to console Mima. Mima wonders if the Mima writing on "Mima's Room" is more Mima then...well Mima is, who feels she's buried her true self deep in her heart and that this personality is manifesting itself in the real world as OtherMima. Rumi says illusions can't exist in the real world and offers a good ol' hand to the shoulder as a consolation. THEN MIMA IS BACK ON THE SET AS AN ACTOR IN THE MIDDLE OF A SCENE! That hand belongs to Mima's fellow actress. Mima says "Rumi?" and everyone on set is like what the heck? Mima apologizes for screwing up and Eri Ochiai, Mima's fellow actress, says the scene will become a nightmare which is coincidentally exactly what the scene is for Mima. Then a "take two!" can be heard and once again*drum roll* Mima wakes up in her bed. Have the last 10 min.'s of the movie been a dream inside a dream, inside a nightmare? I DON'T KNOW!! Or was one of the dream sequences real and a day or two has passed? was some real and some fake? I'm not exactly sure but this is what I meant by finding it hard to trust a protagonista(yes -ista) that can no longer distinguish reality from fantasy! damn you for being untrustworthy Mima!
But theres hope! maybe the next scene will clear some stuff up. it is the EXACT same few seconds as the previous Rumi visiting Mima arc but then the dialogue changes. Mima says the same thing but Rumi is like I was here yesterday, and Mima asks if yesterday really happened or was it all a dream/fantasy again? Hey at least Mima doesn't know what's going on either, so we aren't alone. In the next few scenes we see how far Mima has truly fallen. She breaks a cup in her hand cutting herself up and only acknowledges that the blood is real. Then while reading "Mima's Room" she reads she wen't shopping and figures since that is what it said she must have. Mima is living from what the Mima in "Mima's Room" does. We are given the perfect example of what a fragile psyche looks like and how much it takes to CRACK.
Then we see the movie Mima's acted in again, as Murano, the pornographer which took the nude pictures of Mima, watches it in his home. The events occurring in the movie are sequential with the events occurring in Mima's very own life in regards to personality disorders, people not knowing who they are, illusions taking control of people and murder. What a coincidence huh!? and then the fact Murano's watching it too, just as he's about to be murdered by*cough*... Lets back up. So as Murano watches it a door bell rings. He looks at the door with his perverted looking messed up pupils and greets the pizza man who he says is weird.
as he goes to pick something up, a screw driver or something of that nature is driven into his eyeball to which for a split second his brain doesn't even register. While I'm surprised he didn't die I wished he would have, hell he wouldn't have suffered as much. He then screams and blood spews every which way as he is eviscerated by Mima. stabbed multiple times to the stomach, penis, a stab in the back as Mima stabs him through a glass door. And then as he fumbles for the phone is stabbed in the hand and then everywhere repeatedly. There are no words that I can write which would properly provide you with the same emotion as you would, watching this all too real portrayal of savagery. The sheer brutality alone as Murano, a seemingly perverted guy getting what he deserves, screams for mercy as he is stabbed to death, makes for one of the most disturbing scenes i've ever seen of anything. He was just trying to get by like everyone else, he didn't deserve that! As scenes of stabbing and Mima nude are flashed, sleaze and violence intertwine to create a sinister hybrid of nakedness, something supposed to be beautiful, seen in a deviant, perverse light, and stabbing a terrifying act being flashed in between scenes intended to sexually stimulate or arouse and then while feeling arousal, murder is shown almost as if to condition us to see violence as something that arouses us like nudity and sex does, which is something natural, then associate it with something taboo, like murder, until desensitized to see murder as natural as oh say sexual feelings. The same idea behind why rape is seen as something so evil, that sex which is something which should be beautiful is hand in hand with the negative act of over taking a person without their consent. At least thats my interpretation of what the director was going for or perhaps i read into it too much, lol, which is enirely possible. It could have been as simple as Mima seeing flash backs of what this man made her do, but in either case I found it to be a deeply disturbing scene and often results in my hair falling out, lol which is exactly what I want in A psychological thriller! Again, on key scenes I found especially important I thought I might elaborate on them.Anyway after all this... Mima wakes up again *sigh* in her bed... Thank God she didn't really kill anyone right?! well the phone rings and we learn after Mima talks to Tadokoro that Murano WAS murdered. Well maybe Mima dreamt what she heard on the news? as she checks her closet bloody clothes fall out and the night before seems all too real. It doesn't help reporters barge into her room asking about a love triangle and at work on the set people spread rumors and glare, and she wonders if she really was hit by that truck driven by ME-Mania. Then to top it off in her scene she's acting in, she just murdered someone with a weapon that looks like the one she did Murano in with and upon "action!" hallucinates seeing Murano instead of an actor and she then, yes, wakes up again! in her bed. feels sorta like endless eight in Haruhi. lol
But its not her bed! she's on set and is actually playing herself in double bind! so fiction became reality!? or what? you may ask your self, was this whole thing of Mima being a pop idol/ aspiring actress in this crazy movie a frame story for the whole drama actually being REAL and the other crap FAKE? Well not even that is true. We then see what everyone else sees and Mima is just acting as someone else in the drama that is, by coincidence, playing out in much the same way Mima's real life is. But she seems aloof as everyone cheers, like Mima didn't know she was acting and that that drama was reality, convoluted I know. The room spins and she falls back into Rumi, I'm surprised she didn't wake up in her bed again! Well strap in.... SH*T is about to hit the fan! the next few minutes are finally reality.... for the most part, so all that madness for the moment is over and the story is follow-able again.
Mima runs into Eri Ochiai and some small chat then they part ways. Then Mima thinks its her again but its ME-Mania! after he woops on her the truth is revealed. Like we thought it was him who was murdering people. he was taking orders from the REAL Mima, who ever that could be. This is also the first time we hear him talk, very young and childish and scary sounding. He tries to rape Mima who beats him in the head with a hammer she saw laying around as she was straddled. This probably killed ME-Mania as he staggers off Mima and collapses. This her first murder is like that scene where the staff guy told her to pant heavily, and oh is she exhaling, just like the scene and then... she is in a scene with lights and cameras and applause. Rumi finds Mima waiting outside a door looking like shes seen a ghost. When Mima goes to find a body there is none and Rumi wonders if Mima is dreaming...its possible! Then Rumi driving, with Mima in the back seat, says I'll take you too "Mima's Room" and BAM! Mima is in her room. While Rumi is in the other room, Mima calls Tadokoro and we hear a phone ring. why doesn't Tadokoro pick up? He has gotten his eyes stabbed in and is freaking dead at the studio place! He topples over and lands next to...ME-Mania!? so then.... mima really did kill him. but who moved the body? Mima? and she killed Tadokoro? then the music bachiiya mima comes on and were like oh boy...If it wasn't Mima who did this... Who else would do this!? Who gave ME-Mania his orders, whose the RealMima? Well at least Mima is safe in her own house with Rumi in the next roo-........
wait those aren't Mima's fish...It's not Mima's Room its "Mima's Room".... Holy Crap!!!!!!! Mima is behind Mima but in the mirror we notice one mima is quite portly and robust, who could that be!? Rumi-Chan!!!! Ahhhhh suspense over.
Yes Mima has a red dress on, a little snug and believes she is Mima. That is scary. RumiMima now only has Mima in her way. After some ludicrous banter she takes some stabs at Mima who dodges and then gets stabbed as Mima kicks off RumiMima. Basically nimble, 100 pound Mima is hauling a*s to get away from RumiMima taking stabs at her. Now how that big women Rumi as RumiMima jumps around like she weighs nothing is beyond me but it sure adds to that sense of urgency and oh no I can't escape kind of terror. Now for me, for what ever reason, seeing a hefty person run really fast is pretty scary looking and I say this being a bit on the hefty side myself so take no offense. But when RumiMima looks all graceful and hops around and then you see a mirror of RumiMima and its just Rumi in a red dress....Holy F*cking Sh*t she looks scary as heaven! It shows her sprinting and breathing like a horse with this FACE, no emotion in the eyes! its indescribable, just imagine THAT coming after you with murderous intent and it won't stop even though Rumi shouldn't be able to keep up. You think your safe and then Rumi keeps coming, jumping off buildings, must have been horrifying for Mima! Reminds me of that Dawn of the dead scene.
Well RumiMima catches Mima after Mima's been screaming for help. Mima gets an umbrella stab and then the two talk. RumiMima says SHE is Mima and that Mima is an imposter and Mima is like I don't care what you say , I am Mima because I am Mima, you know?
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| Rumi wiping blood on her self |
haha anyway a wig gets ripped off, Rumi leans on glass, gets gut like a pig and steps out into a truck almost hit, but Mima saves her by pushing her out of the way. Rumi in the end is at a hospital and has dissociative personality disorder, many personalities. While she snaps out of it occasionally for the most part she believes she is Mima. Mima visits her and is appreciative in that, through the near death experience, she now knows who she is and accepts her self even the bad. Mima is Mima no matter what happens. She is now apparently an accomplished actress, as some nurses recognize her and make her seem a big deal, like she aspired to be, having come through so much adversity. Mima looks in her rear view mirror of her car, takes off her sun glasses and beaming with new found confidence and a new lease on life, says the closing line, "No, I'm real!", as happy music and drums start up, a most fitting end.
- I'm Done!!!! Oh man this pretty much scene by scene review has been a labor of love. I went through the movie again while doing the personnal review to preserve detail and accuracy. I thank any and all that have read through the entire thing or at least glanced at it! Thank you! It took a while but I feel a sense of accomplishment! I hope only that you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it up. thank you Satoshi Kon, for making this and many other great films that I enjoy to watch time to time and discuss even years later, May you rest in peace. I only hope other films like this can sprout from your influence on movies and the anime industry. Thanks to (ANN) for some of the info. Thank you fingers for allowing me to abuse you and type so much. thank you eyes for allowing me to strain you as i looked at a bright white computer monitor, typing late into the night. Thank you back for allowing me to hunch you. Thank you ending credits of Perfect Blue which I type to now. Might go rogue for awhile as this burnt me out. I will treat my self to a short hiatus but will be back soon ^^ until then keep watching anime and anime movies! Till then stay you! If there's anything to get from the movie, its that only you are you! ;) take it easy y'all!
-Relic
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