Week 14: Perfect Blue




I’ll talk a little bit about Perfect Blue, since it is one of the most important movies in Anime history in my opinion and I’ve seen it a lot of times. Plus, I presented today so I don’t know what else to talk about. Anyway, Perfect Blue has much to say about fame as an addiction for star and audience – a mutual dependency heightened these days by the internet. To know herself, Mima has to read her own diary as compiled by a psychotic fan. In essence, Perfect Blue is a traditional doppelgänger nightmare. Mima’s artificial pop self – one of three near-identical fluffy Lolitas that comprise girl-group Cham – revolts by taking on a life of its own, and all Mima can do is guiltily suffer its taunts, while trying to exorcise it in her new soap role. It’s no accident that Mima’s television character is dressed as a soft-porn version of the Cham look in her rape scene. Satoshi and screenwriter Murai Sadayuki develop a complex structure for Mima’s psychosis, interleaving layers of the real with Mima’s dreams and the appropriately named show Double Bind.

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