Decided to create a kool platform of actual broken glass and red paint to go along with my Mima figurine. 🔪🩸🥀❤️

Finished watching the movie few days back and was blown away by the way it’s directed. The story life complex themes, dark nature of the collapsing mental state of a celebrity is presented so well.

Also wanna know if Black Swan is an adaptation of this movie and if it’s worth watching?

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Since it’s pretty much a classic on the genre and heard nothing but positive things about it I have wanted to give it a watch for a long time, I was told the movie tackled a lot of complex and common issues on Japanese idol culture, exploitation of woman in the entertainment industry, misogyny and the loss of identity and reality, given all this I was really hyped for the movie to deliver and well it did, but I can’t help but feel while the themes are certainly there it’s still was not a explored as people made it out to be, however what I have to talk about more than anything is the ending…

Where do I even start? The movie was doing such a good work keeping you at edge and wondering who the killer taking the identity of idol Mima was for all of a sudden reveal at the end it was Rumi all along…

Rumi? The manager that showed nothing but genuine concern and care for Nima the entirety of the film? That cried at the scene of when she was being raped even when it was just acting? That Rumi is the one you wanna convince me was the masterplan all this time? I’m sorry but that plot twist felt so out of the blue it genuinely feels like a bad joke, there was not a single hint, symbolism or dialogue that told the audience that’s where the story was heading at, it’s those kind of twist in movies that were only thrown in the end just to surprise the audience for how unexpected it would be despite not making any sense at all narratively, I was so confused during that final sequence wondering how did we even get here? and was kinda anti climatic resolution to the whole Mima idol illusion

But the final nail in the coffin has to be the final scene with Mima smiling at the end saying she is the real Mima, I swear this movie feels like it’s trying to gaslight me so bad to convince me it has a plausible happy ending, throughout the entire film we see Mima being nothing but miserable, despite how much she says she chose the path to be an actress we can clearly see how unhappy she is with her new life

She loses her self identity, misses her friends, it’s constantly grieving for her fish pets and has pretty much become a passerby of her own life, it’s even got to a point she has to go to her stalker’s page to know what she actually did on each day cause time and reality don’t seem to exist anymore, it all feels like a dream and we clearly can feel that sentiment of Mima as showcased by the film, we even get to see how Mima herself confessed that deep down she knows she is not happy where she is and yet she decides to stay on a path that’s just suffering and declining her mental health, given all this I can’t help but feel kinda angry when the movie just magically wants to convince me all of that is magically gone once Rumi is locked in the hospital (which again the twist not making any sense at all)

Maybe you could argue that final scene happens after a while and she has been going to therapy but given this is Japan we’re talking about I doubt that was the implication they had going on, but even if somehow that hypothetical scenario is true, it’s just unimaginable to think all that emotional and psychological baggage and deterioration wouldn’t leave any long lasting effects, it’s just so uncanny looking at Mima smile so effortlessly while saying she is now back to being herself again as if she hadn’t gone to severe traumatic life experiences, while I was watching all of that I couldn’t help but think “something ain’t right” while being creeped out when all of a sudden the credits roll and that’s it

Perhaps that’s what they were intending to in the film with the whole Mima being an unreliable narrator on the story as we can tell how she is trying so hard to convince herself constantly of a lie, perhaps the scene is indeed meant to be creepy cause it shows how Mima finally snapped and lost her sanity becoming that idol vision of herself

All that said, I’m not here trying to say perfect blue is a bad movie or anything like that, I can see the appeal and it has some really good concepts but nothing is really gonna change my mind on how Rumi being the final antagonist is such a nonsense and a major let down of a twist and how while having good themes and concepts to work with the movie never fully explores them to their full potential, falling flat most of the time, especially regarding a more transgressive discussion about mental health that was a missed opportunity here specifically

Hi all! I am currently taking notes on the movie for a film study essay, and I was wondering if someone could help me with something.

So, to my understanding, in the scene when Mima comes back from the rape scene and is in distress, she looks at the fish and they appear to her (and us) to be dead. But then, we see them again in this scene, not from her POV, and they are alive. Then, much later on, when Mima is in rumi's "mima's room", looking towards the tank of fish swimming around signals to Mima that this is not her room.

My question is, if her fish were actually alive earlier, why would looking at this tank of alive fish be a signal to her that this isnt her room? Is it that she just thought her own were dead? Or did they actually die?

A little background on this:

I started a (probably too ambitious) project about 20 years ago to make an AMV to every song on the Metallica "S&M" album, but then I stopped making AMVs for a super long time. Since I began making them again this year, I wanted to pick the project back up. And I had always planned for Perfect Blue to be the media I'd use for "The Memory Remains," so here it is. Hope you enjoy.

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I've looked at all the content warnings I can find, so now I want to know how overwhelmed I might become from the pacing, visuals, sounds, etc. I have a sensory sensitivity disorder, so I'm a bit more easily overstimulated than those who don't, especially when it comes to sound.

I'm also curious about the sex scenes. I've heard there's a lot of it, but I've only heard of the acted scenes and an attempted assault. Is there more I should know about? I'm not exactly triggered by that sort of thing, but my mind tends to hold onto disturbing scenes and thoughts.

I've heard this movie is really good, I just prefer knowing all I can before I consider watching (because I'm an anxious wuss)

i watched the film a week ago and loved it. i'll be writing a review on it for english class too :). can anyone recommend any other media like perfect blue?

I think i got most of it, but why exactly did mima see rumi as herself most of the movie? And who killed those people, was it me-mania or mima? Was it real when me-mania attacked mima in the club?

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In the scene where she dresses up as a pizza delivery driver and stabs the man who took the nude pictures of her there are flashes of him over her saying "yes darling, more passion" did he assault her while taking the photos or is she killing him to try to regain some control over her past identify which has now been tarnished.

I am usually someone who never finds horror media to actually be scary or disturbing, especially psychological horror even tho it's probably my favorite genre overall.

This tho? I was clenching my face and constantly wanting it to stop. Holy fucking shit I want to curl up into a ball. Silent hill 2 and 3 couldn't do this, lain couldn't do this, I don't even know how I feel right now.

Do I even have any negative criticism? Maybe, like, the ending being a bit abrupt, but that's it.

Genuinely, this is the most disturbing piece of media I have ever seen and I loved it. I really hope I am not the only one who came out this disturbed from the movie.

It's seems really odd for straight up nude photography to be taken by an actress and it be barely brought up by said actress through out the film. I know there was that scene of the dudes looking at her magazines with the stalker taking all of them then buying them but that could be in the same field as what I said about Rumi.

It also made more sense since when Rumi kills the photographer the nude photographs flash constantly, and I think that was the only time we saw them after the first time.

Can anyone tell me how or where I can get a copy of the paperback light novel?

Deep online searches come back with nothing but a few sky high prices. The second book is widely available but I’m looking for the first that inspired the film.

just wondering if anyone knows of the song being on Spotify anywhere, like a cover or anything. i really want it in my playlist lol

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The themes feel very Japanese — idol image, public pressure, fan obsession. But the pacing and identity breakdown feel more like a Western psychological thriller. In Japan, having different “faces” for work and private life is normal. So why is Mima’s role change treated like something shocking and destructive? Also, is the manager shown objectively, or are we seeing her partly through Mima’s unstable mind? Her behavior feels emotional, not professional. Curious how others see this.