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Perfect Blue
The color of illusion is Perfect Blue.
MyAnimeList Rating
| Year | 1998 |
|---|---|
| Status | released |
| Duration | 81 mins |
| Studio | MADHOUSE |
Synopsis
A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past.
Rating Entries
Thoughtfull psychological thriller that leaves you disoriented and maybe even disturbed
Perfect Blue is a psychological thriller about a singer in a pop trio, Mima, who turns to acting because of the lack of successes that she feels she is achieving in music. Ironically, after she leaves her former singing partners become far more successful as a duo than they have ever been working with her. As Mima turns towards acting, she discovers that a stalker has been making posts about her on his fan-page detailing Mima’s day-to day experience as she transitions to acting. These things began to manifest themselves in Mima’s mind and embody a separate personality that haunts her throughout this film. I am not usually drawn to anime but this film really poked at my curiosity. Mostly because of the stories I have heard about the esteemed director, Darren Aronofsky, buying the rights to this film for $60k in order to, not only replicate a seen from this film in his critically-acclaimed masterpiece, Requiem for a Dream, but also to allegedly replicate aspects of Perfect Blue in his Oscar-winning movie, Black Swan.
Editor's Review
Encouraged by her manager, Rumi, the lead singer of the successful J-Pop group, “CHAM!”, and teen idol, Mima Kirigoe, decides to quit her bubblegum trio to pursue an acting career in the television soap, “Double Bind”. However, her bold choice doesn’t sit well with the young band’s male admirers, especially the unknown die-hard fan who starts posting insidious threats and disturbingly intimate information about Mima’s life on her blog–entries Mima swears aren’t hers. Now, all those who talked Mima into embracing her “bad girl” persona end up brutally murdered, and a menacing doppelgänger harasses her. Is this strange and dangerous situation merely a palpable delusion, or is Mima, indeed, being stalked by a violent killer?