Why Perfect Blue is Terrifying
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The scene where Mima’s character is “gang raped” is so hard to watch.
For real even tho it was acting I almost started crying
Sauce?
@@DarkOminigiri its on youtube, czcams.com/video/MWMb8-3lnhI/video.html
I know right!!!!!
I agree!
Perfect blue was way before it's time and its deserves more credit
Omar Dugee I agree
Where can I watch this?
@@leahbelardo7696 czcams.com/video/AjY2hIupbBQ/video.html
I would dare say it is way before our time right now.
Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis has a similar feel to this Perfect Blue. I question if Black Swan may have been inspired by Perfect Blue.
If the stalker was hot and amazing there will be sickos who would ship the both of them.
Omg truee
Literally bruh
Oof! Sadly true... 0_0
There's no way-
*looks at the killing stalking fanbase*
Ok yeah maybe
@@hellohellohihi the faq is that
my dumb ass was really saying in the beginning of the movie “omg i like rumi she makes me feel so safe when she’s on screen” LMAOO
no cause i literally felt the same way LMAOOO
Where can I watch it?
@@dirtsoop1143 I think it’s on CZcams
Alexa play Curb your enthusiasm
FOR FRIGGEN REAL my guy killed errbody
Mima: 👁👄👁
The antagonists: 👁 👄 👁
This is irrelevant but YOUR NAME AND PROFILE PIC
Spoiler!!!
It took me some time to understand it but after i did i couldn't stop laughing
Hahaha
Mima:👁️ 👄 👁️
Rumi:👁️ 👄 👁️
The guy:👁️ 👄 👁️
@@Nabil_Khori.
i would say that guy was more like:
👁️ 👁️
👄
This reminds me of how actors/actresses sometimes need therapy after playing certain characters.
Like Shelley Duvall from The Shining
@@lauryns9497 Wow I am not the only one who though of Shelley Duvall while watching this, especially hearing lately of her ongoing intense mental struggles.
@@lauryns9497 that was mainly for how she was treated on set though, mima was treated quite well and actors apologised to her for certain scenes
@@user-uy1my1oc1h Even then, having to act an intense situation such a rape scene can seriously harm and traumatize the actors involved even though "it's just acting"I. I went to study acting in college and things as intense as fight, sex, murder and rape we're ALWAYS advocating to have a fight and intimacy coordinator on set to prepare the actors as well as aftercare to make sure the actors and crew members are okay after recording. Some people will argue that that kind of preparation takes away the authenticity of the scene but really, there's no fucking reason to subject your actors to mental abuse for the sake of horror or for the sake of art.
@@user-uy1my1oc1h I guess that's why that scene made me cry and normally I don't cry while watching movies. I felt Rumi's pain while having to witness that. The industry throws young women into doing such horrifying scenes without a care about their mental well being and at worse they threaten their careers and livelihoods if they don't comply. That should no longer be normalized in the industry. The idea that suffering makes good art should be abolished entirely.
The line, "we're going back to mimas room" is fucking terrifying
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE - when i caught onto it, i was like WAIT A MINUTE
i heard that and was like ????
wait-what does that mean?
@@skzstaybtsbulletprooftoget3693 rumi is not actually taking mima back to her own house, but to "the real" mima's house (i.e. rumi's own house since she believes she is the real mima)
Man I thought it was subtitles fck up goddamn
Even if the "GangRape" was just acting, it was still painfully traumatizing to watch.
Exactly when that fake rape scene was up I was like " no plz no OH MY GAWD NO!!!"
Other than it being recorded I wouldn’t call it “fake”
I can handle gore and violence in other horror movies but that fake rape scene really had me looking away
Just watched that and I had to stop watching
agreed
Me at the beginning of the movie: aight, imma watch this.
Me at the end of the movie: w h a t
I was so confused by the movie tbh
BxD ViBeS oof same. I was like “tf is happening” THE WHOLE DAMN TIME-
@@youknowyoulloveme same wth. Then they like aight the sister wants to be me wtff😩😩
@@jyeviolegrace2143 RIGHT?? LMFAO I WAS LIKE HUH WHO DIS RAT AGAIN ☠️☠️😭
@@Bookwormxox Lmao 😂😂🙏
"Everyone is an audience and everyone is a performer"
That one moment when i thought of how scary u can describe reality with one sentence.
There’s post modernism for ya
Teachers be like: yeah I’m used to it man
Oof yes! 0_0
Lmao same
Social media life
"Perfect Blue is not a puzzle to be solved, but a story to be experienced" - this quote could be applied to all my favourite movies.
It reminds me of one of my favorite poems
Introduction To Poetry - Billy Collins
When I first watched Wong Kar Wai's movies, I was trying to find meaning in everything, which made them not as enjoyable. I did that because most Wester films are meaning-oriented, but then I realized that I was just supposed to relate to the characters on a fundamental level and I love his fils so much now.
I'm really scared to watch this film, as I have PTSD from when I've was psychologically abused by my peers in High School. They used my Autism as a scapegoat to gaslight me into thinking that my mental disorder was making me hallucinate their abuse. Whenever they would call me a "retard", beat me up, or steal my possessions, or even sexually assault me...they claimed it never happened, that my mind was making me see things that were never there, or that which was there, my mind was simply making it seem like something else. In a few instances, they even went so far as to use the staff's own mental illnesses to their advantage to set me up to get into trouble with them. And when the adults did nothing to help me, no matter how much I cried to them for help, I thought I was going completely insane.
Is it okay to feel scared of this movie? Sometimes I can't help but feel weak...
@@hawkeyenextgen7117 Media is made to make us feel. But sometimes we've already experienced those emotions in our lives and we don't want to be subjected to them again. That's okay. It's not weak.
Choosing to experience something painful for yourself solely to prove to yourself you're strong isn't necessary. It's okay to not want to relive past pains, especially when it's not limiting your goals. It's okay to be kind to yourself.
Perfect Blue can be a painful movie to watch, and there's no shame in not watching it. I did watch it and I'm not sure it was the right decision, even though it was artistically impressive. It reinvigorated memories I would have preferred stay dormant.
Be well, and surround yourself with people who are kind!
I wish I could tell that to every pretentious "film" snob.
When she kept waking up I felt so bad for her, she was totally living through hell
No god but Allah
Islam way for peace and real monotheist
Search about the truth with honest heart
Layered dreaming
@@amany247stop shoving your ideology in other peoples face. Support your religion and move on. Live and let live.
@@amany247Wrong place wrong time.
That elevator murder was terrifying
Right? RIGHT?! I was chill watching the movie and then that music started and stuff and I got chills
Please elaborate that scene
@@ahadadil786 I don't remember all details, but basically a man drives into a car park, gets out and hears a song. He is alone in the area and calls whoever is there, obviously he's confused and wants to know who it is. But then the music stops. So he thinks "oh yeah I guess it's fine" and goes to take the elevator when the music starts again. And it's a rather happy pop song if I I remember correctly so that makes it even weirder. So the elevator arrives and when the doors open there is a recorder on the ground playing the song. Then it cuts to an upper floor, it's a rather wide shot showing the whole wall with the elevator at the end of a hallway I think. The doors open and there is the man sitting on the ground with his eyes stabbed out. His face is covered in blood and there are only two black holes left. He slowly starts falling to the side and it's over. There is no person in sight during all of this and it's also evening/night.
There might be clips of it on CZcams
@@nembutsu1045 i know that much just wondered what happened, did the radio explode or person being psychologically twisted committed suicide etc?
@@ahadadil786I guess it's that weird stalker of the protagonist, he tried to stab her with a screwdriver once and killed the other guy with it too so maybe it was him. We don't know what happens inside the elevator so maybe the murderer entered at a different floor, killed him, left him there and sent the elevator up. Idk it's creepy nonetheless
Perfect Blue almost hurts to watch at some points, not just because of things like screwdriver body horror. At the moments when Mima is undergoing something dramatic or threatening you feel all the more anxious because it's hard to tell if she's actually in danger.
I got paranoid of her since the letter bomb scene..
what happens with the screwdriver
@@ameera.abubakr idk :(
@@ameera.abubakr Eye and abdomen stab
i think she stabbed her coworker in eye and body multiple times, but i honestly dont know if was rumi me-mania or just a dream of hers lmao
What always strikes me about the opening sequence is that at the Cham concert, you don't see moms with their pre-teen and teenage daughters, you don't see women in their 20s, you see a bunch of men that are drawn to actually look pretty scary.
Irl thee probably are some of those types of guys mixed in tbh
thats the fandom of girl groups on a nutshell. you just need to look for their fansigns, just a bunch of dudes in their 30s/40s...
it makes even more sense when you realize rumi’s name is r - u - mi (are you me)
What the fuck
but how does this play out in japanese?
bruhhhhhh
Dude sounds like an Illuminati theorist
omg are u kidding me
jfbsjdjsjwkw
"Never meet your idols, they'll only disappoint you."
Don't have idols in the first place in my opinion it's unhealthy for you and then
irelevent, they have no need to impress their fans, only to impact them.
I think it's fine to have idols and to idolize people but when it impacts your daily life then it's a problem. There's no problem in liking, for an example, a pop star but when you daily indulge your free time consuming their content then it's a problem.
@@amazingjay3957 Yup, as long as you don't use EVERY single free time obsessing over them
Yeah, if you see them as an idol and don't expect to meet an actual person in the process of meeting them
'Now everyone is an audience and everyone is a performer' - the greatest line that summed up today's reality.
Klonówa yes! 👏🏾
That's literally how it has been for hundreds of years, it's just now we can communicate without meeting face to face
the trend of hiding who you are in crafted fake names and profiles is amussing as i seek only to show myself to the internet, in all my hateful irratinal and perverted missery... along with my compesion and interests... though i have been trying to lessen my nastier outbursts online... i remain shardinhand everywere online... from youtube and twitter, to deviantart and steam... and every porn site in between... love me or hate me, i yield who i am for no-one.
@@shardinhand1243 perfect *claps*
@@Elandil5 i am what i am. regardless of if i like it or not. though change is possable, it is very hard when you have nothing to change for.
This movie was made in the 90s ...hard to believe
90s - 00s anime is so good. Neon genesis, cowboy bepop, paranoia agent, perfect blue are just a few that are masterpieces
@@jisun2695 don't forget Akira, that movie was super good tbh
@@mehgemenymhge8566 I tried watching but I remember my phone died and I forgot about it
@@jisun2695 LOL that happened to me too but I didn't forget about the film because I made a note about it
@@mehgemenymhge8566 what happened in the second part of the story tho
it was so hard to distinguish of whether Mima was actually just seeing things like she has multiple personality disorder, or the Idol Mima was just a coping mechanism for her, or someone is indeed trying to be her. I thought she was also just hallucinating that Ruri was the one trying to be her. I wonder though how Ruri pulled off looking and acting like she was Mima and that Mima was completely in trance and believed Ruri was her other personality. There have got to be some physical differences to them right? This movie was really gold.
Yea the Multiple personality disorder and coping mechanisms reality is the most likely and very true to real life , just what makes this film so good is how open ended it was left
the unsettling feeling of the rape scene. literally wanted to fight somebody. it hurts to watch that scene.
Same like I was just there shook I had a headache after it was so sad like
wait you mean to tell me one of the main characters in this film gets abused like that what? I know that the girl wants to be an actress and all but was it part of a scene she was filming in as part of her career or did it actually happen to her?
@@twentyonetortas5921 it was part of the film, and the rape scene was just a shooting for the film, but still it looks way too real and terrifying, especially if we see through Mima and Rumi's perspective!!
@@sauvikgoel591 oh jeez. I heard about how old animated films from Japan like this is good yet they also tend to be grim. thank you for answering though.
@@twentyonetortas5921 but I still think, that scene is somewhat mandatory as it's from where the things started changing, bith for Mima and Rumi...
In a way, this whole rape scene triggered them!!
The music of perfect blue is the most terrifying part honestly. Gives me chills
Shit scares the fuck out of me lol brilliant
This is legit and no one talks about it, like every scene was 10x scarier bcuz of that damn music
That Music is giving me nightmares.
The music was sooooo unsettling!!! Even tho the scenes weren’t disturbing, the music was just scaring the living shit out of me.
YES!!
This is why I love Japanese writers and manga creators. Nobody does magical realism better than them. They seem to have an acute understanding of human psyche and how to play around with it.
Uminekoooo
Probably because they're so suppressed emotionaly by their culture so art is the only way to express themselves
@@nicocee2431 My personal favourite works from Japanese Animated films are Spirited Away and Grave of the fireflies, yet to watch perfect blue.
Latin America is the king of magical realism
@@nicocee2431 wow that’s deep
Man The Rape scene was kinda sad. I mean I knew they were acting but I can feel the regret in her choice. Such a good movie. Way ahead of it's time
Was the rape scene in the movie real or scripted like wrestling?
I never saw the movie. I just saw this video.
@@orkoskang7967 It was scripted but even then you could see she regretted it.
It was done so well too. Like they even add the part where the guy apologizes to Mima when they pause during the scene and she insists it's fine, but when the scene continues, it is still extremely uncomfortable to watch. The scene also acts as a transition into the next act of the movie since that scene is what really started to deteriorate Rumi's image of Mima and led to her beginning her murder spree. The trauma of the scene also helped lead to Mima's own mental instability afterwards (along with Rumi's influence too of course).
The scene that got me the most was the fake rape scene. When it's revealed to be staged and the director stops it, one of the actors playing a rapist actually apologizes and asks Mima if she's okay. She assures that everything is fine, and then they start filming again. The dissonance is severely jarring.
@J6REMIAH dude?
It was staged ????
@Poppy He exists, that's what.
@@bambi3886 It was a scene in a movie she was filming.
@@Domino365 owh, i alrd knew it was a scene but what do you mean it was staged? Was it the writer? Did he insert the rape scene to "test" her ?????
How she looks: 👁️👄👁️
How her stalker looks: 👁️ 👄 👁️
Nah her stalker looks more like this
👁 👄
Nah her stalker looks like this:🐟
@@fragiledoll3681 LOL🤣
@@fragiledoll3681 wtff hahaha
A FISH???
dude this movie is literally what life as a celebrity is like. its not an exaggeration or an analogy, its actually like this. a total hell nightmare at all times.
this movie is so relatable man
you’re a celebrity?
So she goes through psychosis while being stalked and the main woman she trusted was stealing her identity too? Wtf
sigh....no. wikipedia it.
It is much more complicated, I suggest watching it
Is it just me or does the stalker look like a fish?
Amukiii I called him Quasimodo throughout the film lol
HE LOOKED MORE OF A HORSE TO ME BUT YOURE RIGHT
No he looks like a damn beetle
I thought he looked like Sid, from ice age
i thought he looked like Michael jackson 👁👄👁
Mima: 👁️👄👁️
Rumi: 👁️ 👄 👁️
Me-mania: 👁️ 👄
Delete this
@@djaz1453 No
*Yes* xd
@@djaz1453 ok puñetas
Me-mania really said: 👁️ 👃⚫
👄
While I was watching Perfect Blue, I first thought: "Yeah. I know what's going on. I can follow."
As the story progressed and things got more confusing, I lost more and more trust in my judgement and had to question if every scene was real or not. Even when the movie ended, I questioned if the ending was even real.
SAME
ME TOO!!
I got confused because it was two entirely different plots like the stalker guy and the pop star going through a change in a career, and I just thought that the stalker was only some side character
you could also notice how her room was a mirror of her psyche as her room gets dirtier and dirtier throughout the movie and by the end, she confronts Mima in her room coming to the realization of who she really is accepting her new self
I think that how when she was in Rumi's room, she had even more fish than she started with, which is a cool way of showing how rumi is trying to take the role of the 'perfect' Mima. I might also just be misremembering though.
I've notice most of us watched perfect blue before sleep
The question is... did any of us ever wake up?
crap.. yeah. why is that??
I have watched it, it's 2:40 am here, i can't sleep, what a movie!
Wow I watched it 3 days ago before sleeping what a coincidence
What the fuck ???? I watched it at 1:30 am before i go to sleep
Forget the movie, the sound track was terrifying and creepy af.
mmmmmmmmmMMmM MMM
It was... Especially the wailing in the 'You're tarnished! Filthy!' scene. Masterful, honestly.
Yea, especially at the last shot
Still can't beat giygas theme lol
Ikr screw the movie
"It's not a struggle of heroes and villains, but a conflict of attackers and victims."
literal chills. that quote is so scarily accurate.
I didn't find this movie scary, but I did feel very uncomfortable. It was so unsettling. (I'm used to this kind of movies/series) I loved it.
I was so uncomfortable 😭 I stopped watching it when that scene happened is it rlly a r@p3d?? 😭
@@danielleiri that scene was the weirdest and the hardest to watch tbh. The rest was fine tho.
Bro if you are used to this kind of movies and series , plz recommend me some movies or series
Plz plz plz 😊😊😊
My nearly 14 year old cousin watched it with me and I was 16. A website told us it was a 15+ anime and we were like. "Oh we've watched the promised never land! We can handle some anime horror!"
WHAT. THE. FU
@@serenitysubs933 I'm sorry but the Promised Neverland is not even horror in my opinion
I'm just sad the fish tank broke
Its ok lol the fish already died before it broke
@@kendallclark8101 That was Mima's imagination, the fish tank that broke had plastic fish in it, because it was in Rumi's room
@@ThisIsTaco1 What? Thy were plastic?
@@bxyhxyh in a couple of scenes you can see her fish are fake. It's later revealed that those fake fish were part of Mima's room decoration.
ThisIsTaco1 And yet she thought they were real... See how this all adds up?
Adding more to the color scheme theory:
In scenes where Mima is alone in her apartment, or when she’s living out her daily life, we can see that warm colors are being used more frequently compared to cool colors(as stated in the video). However, in scenes where she’s performing as an idol or shooting for her tv show, a lot of cool colors are seen being used, especially blue. This tells that the color blue is being used to portray a idol/actress with a seemingly perfect life or just simply the world people surround themselves in . And compared to the over saturated colors in the much darker scenes, the shade of blue is much more pleasant to the eye, showing that the public is keen of seeing a perfectly crafted world that the idols portray, like in the film.
No wonder the film is called “perfect blue”
WOAH
Sweety Lwin You ma’am/sir, have a very keen eye.
Your mind, it amazes me.
I got chills just from reading that
Ooh. Great point. Love your analysis of this
I loved this movie, a lot. I think that you’re supposed to be like “what the fuck is going on” but your brain just can’t figure out if what she’s seeing is actually in her head. The eerie nature that this movie is able to convey is actually unreal.
I just watched “Perfect Blue” for the first time without knowing anything about it. Also, “Black Swan” is one of my favorite movies.
Both films are excellent but I feel like “Perfect Blue” is much more unsettling than “Black Swan” because, rather than subjecting a viewer to watch a person descend into madness, it actively makes you feel like you’re losing your sense of reality as the story progresses. You have no aspect of realism to cling onto as you watch Mima lose her mind: everything we see has the potential to be an illusion. The setting, the events, the characters, etc. We have nothing to hold onto.
In “Black Swan” we had direct references of reality that made us aware of Nina’s hyperbolic views on the world: the ballet show is real, we know for a fact; we know that Lily is not sabotaging Nina; we know that Nina’s boss is a creep who needs to be avoided; etc. We are aware of these things, but Nina isn’t. That’s why you feel wary of her behavior.
With Mima, though… you ARE her. You have no idea what is happening, you are as lost as she is, and by the end, you don’t know what to think. You don’t know whether to be glad, or afraid, or shocked. You’re so disconnected from the events transpiring that you don’t know how to feel about it when the credits roll. It’s terrifying.
I've seen the Black Swan a while back, I don't understand why it has gotten so much attention. There are far better films that have never received much attention. It's silly to compare this film to the Black Swan.
You explained this so well!! Thank you for your input
First off. You should watch the director of black swans interview. He clearly was inspired by perfect blue but is too much of a prick to say it. He bought the rights to replicate perfect blues bathroom scene. Put in in black swan but didn’t want to admit he copied perfect blue.
@@starandeath4735 darren aronofsky literally said that the bath tub scene from requiem for a dream is directly influenced by perfect blue. He has no shame in admitting he took from the animated film.
@@LittleKittyCat Black swan is far superior to perfect blue, the ending of perfect blue is not good. The manager wanted to be like her so she emailed some random guy to try and kill her is a boring conclusion to a good film. Although I like perfect blue, black swan is far superior.
The rape scene is really hard to watch.
But the thing that makes it worse is that clearly none of the actors really "want" to do it.
The male actor pinning her down even says "I'm really sorry" before the scene starts.
So why did they do it I didn’t really understand
@@evan9506 because they're actors. It's their job to act a scene, no matter how messed up.
titel so was she actually being raped or was it just a scene
@@evan9506 It was just a scene.
@@titel9870 I mean they don't really have to do it. If they really didn't want to do it so badly, they wouldn't.
the fact that black swan is given so much credit and the lead even won an oscar just shows us how japanese media is so often underappreciated.
The awards Hollywood like to give themselves are meaningless.
YES
@@TheAntManChannel ikr
In the words of Bong Joon Ho, it’s not a big deal, the oscars are not an international film festival, they’re local. Lol
It’s mostly a local award show, that could have something to do with it.
Also completely meaningless.
As someone who also cannot differentiate between dreams and reality sometimes.And the way Mima questions everything is so eerily accurate.The scenes bleeding into each other is haunting for me.
Having never seen this movie, I cannot convey how much raw terror the phrase " _that_ screwdriver scene " put into my bones
"I just turned 12 when I saw the film."
YOUWHAT
I was 12 when I saw it too.
im not even born yet
I was 12 when I saw too jsjs
i was 9-10 lmao
I was 12 too and I was horrified by the rape scene
I am kinda suprised by how... Everyone is focused on that stalker... But doesn't see the closer picture of Mima's manager totally playing with her mind... By posting things from her private life online.. And sending emails to the stalker.. Actually the manager was so obsessed by the Mima-rin idol character she went as far as killing the producer photograph and sending the stalker to actually go and rape Mima and then also tried to kill her as well... She was the mastermind behind the whole thing and she basically wanted Mima's life...
everydaydreamer1 yeah I was looking through the comments trying to see if anyone would mention the manager, but maybe it was out of respect to those who hadn’t seen the movie and didn’t want to spoil the end?
This character really impact people, because the manager seem to be an excuse for the scenario, unlike the stalker.
He seem to be so real, so *disgusting*
Actually whan i saw the rape scene and Rumi was crying,i already had a glimpse of how much she wanted Mima to remain as a singer.She's taking care of Mima because she wanted to be MIma.She even made her room as identical as Mima's!She was an ex-idol but they didnt got big so she wanted Mima as what she wanted her to be.SHe was against Mima being an actress and those nude photoshoot doesnt suit on how she wanted Mima to be.Its like MIma is her reflection.
Rumi didn't want the rape, she just wanted him to kill her. What purpose would rape serve? The goal was to replace Mima.
@@allison8250 This is why I came to this video. I did not understand the ending at all. Thanks for the explanation.
my favourite part about this film was the final scene, where “mima” winks in her car mirror. the thing is, which mima is it? and that’s terrifying. this movie toys with us and makes us question whats real and whats not, thats why its scary.
Perfect blue was really ahead of it’s time. As para social relationships spread we see more of that stalker character grow and grow
People need to stop saying "ahead of it's time". Celebrities got stalkers back then, and they still do now. It means nothing changed. It didn't mean Satoshi Kon was some prophet.
@@sor3999 this was a para social relationship that was filed by the industry. A difference in cultures as American celebrities are often removed from the normal society. Whilst there the ability to meet your favorite idol after a show is not only affordable but also encouraged. In the age of digital media the modern idol is an influencer who is more accessible. As celebrities go through trainings by studios and managers for PR and crowd work influencers and Idols don’t do it to the same degree. So when they meet someone that interaction becomes more personal and a can quickly turn into an obsession. Where as most celebrity stalkers have a ideal version of a person they’ve never meet the stalkers in this movie have easier access
I saw this film for the first time tonight. What’s truly chilling is how easily the exact same story could be told in the context of today’s Internet as opposed to that of the late 90s.
I saw it for the first time then as well. Miraculously I was able to fall asleep that night.
its always the same story, just the technology advanced
Did you watch it in the movie theatre? O:
@Andrew Diaz yeah
Maybe someone will try a perfect blue remake in modern times, i think the themes will be much more effective now that instead of "hey, maybe dont do this to idols" it now means "hey, this can happen to you and theres nothing you can do to stop how others precieve you in their own head"
perfect blue is like a much more freakier version of the kpop industry
It is the Kpop industry.
"much creepier" lmao it's actually an accurate representation of kpop :))
that’s chilling 😰
K P ikr
Not just exclusively the K-Pop industry, rather the things a celebrity, especially a starting one, has to endure to reach the fame they want.
Literally was the most scariest psychological thriller
As a Bjork fan, I already knew the story. But I seriously didn’t expect her to be mentioned here! Huge surprise, and a welcome one, though the events surrounding are terrible.
"Give a man a mask and he'll show you his true face" -Oscar Wilde
That is exactly what this new era of social media and interconnection has made: a means to grant us the perfect mask to present ourselves to others and to use it so effortlessly that we often question which one is the true essence of our being and which one is the persona we made for ourselves
I've been on the internet for over a decade (not that long in comparison to some people)
And I can say with absolute confidence that social media sites (twitter) are some of the most inhumane weapons of mass destruction concocted by humanity. They've caused societal damage to such a degree that literally do not think we can recover from it
My favorite mask is the Black Death doctor's mask, what does that say about me
Very true, though I would say this kind of societal mask may have been an issue long before the Internet was made, possibly throughout human history (considering that some of the similar themes in things such as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or The Invisible Man movie series).
So basically...now we have to wear mask in real life nowadays because of Corona but would it affect the humane nature in any way?
Like will people become more secretive and vulnerable or more hazardous?
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There's a lot to speculate on that (especially considering how humanity has handled viruses and plagues over the centuries and comparing to what we have then and now).
My personal experiences seem to be general heightened anxiety due to a lot of varying information on the virus, though it's hard exactly to see how heightened it is since general society comes with some form of anxiety by its nature (I'm just speaking from my own observation though, so there may be more to it than that).
Satoshi Kon's life was cut tragically short, this man was making 10/10s on a consistent basis. Imagine what else he could have done if he had more time.
His last movie, The Dream Machine is still in development hell.
Kuro Shinko+ I honestly hope that it's going to be finished someday.
B R I A N Not all. Paprika is awful.
Paprika is not awful, is a really great movie on it's own with the themes it evoques, it's simbolism at it's pure extension, to me as a psychologist it's a great movie, though not all people would agree because not all are aware of the inner proccess we all have.
Paprika is the Mulholand Drive of anime, it is anything but awful lol
When Mima takes off her glasses and throws a short gaze at us the viewers in the end through the Rear View mirror and says "No I'm real", I got chills down my spine man. Made me question if anything is real for a second. What a masterpiece! Even though it was Rumi I was convinced that it was mima "the real one" - I myself was blending into the fabric of what was the character's reality and her fantasy, that's what makes perfect blue so bone chilling and magnificently pure as an anime/manga. It truly is a mesmerizing piece of artistic vision. That's why her trauma in the movie feels so real that you suffer as well.
*take a bow Satoshi Kon🙌**
perfect blue describes perfectly how i feel sometimes. i’m a classical musician and my parents want me to get really famous. the first time i felt like i was losing myself was when i was shooting a documentary about one of the professional music videos i made some while back - i wanted to say what i personally thought about it and tell people the things i got through while shooting…but there was a script i had to follow and every emotion and every thought that was not written in the script..was like it never existed, never told, wrong…it was so scary, it was like i wasnt allowed to have a mind of my own but be someone that someone else wants me to be. the second time was this year…i was doing so good- good grades, good guitar skills. my parents sat me down that day and told me i was doing horrible, that i was just being delusional about doing well and being well, that i wasn’t doing enough and that they want so much more…i lost myself then, i completely lost it- everything that i had known or thought i knew broke into pieces. the perception i had of reality was gone. i began to dissociate often, not knowing what was real and what wasn’t. it was like there was no reality and that was the scariest thing ive ever gotten through. perfect blue really shows what its like to lose yourself to the character you’ve built/the character others want you to be. i hope this never happens to any of you.
hope you're feeling better now. stay well!✨
That's BS for them to say that to you. So many parents just spew shit that is so so unhelpful. Don't let their crazy high standards drag you down. Don't do it for them do it for yourself!
I hope you're in a better place now :( Are you still making music?
Perfect blue makes me feel genuinely upset for pop idols or anyone who has made it big in the spotlight :(
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Kpop idols in a nutshell..
czcams.com/video/C0J8OuxZYzg/video.html i did in english also
Not just k pop, that's just idol culture in general.
Gotta give it to the Japanese. They really have a way with horror.
Yep
r/guro
I was gonna like your comment but then I saw that you have 666 likes, and I wouldn't want to ruin that
Koreans are pretty close... kinda.
Eh, Canadian Gamer must've been a side effect of the radiation
I definitely agree : this movie isn’t a puzzle to be solved, but a story to be experienced ! With dread, with compassion and (hopefully), with perspective.
"everyone is an audience and everyone is a performer" damn this hit me hard
"Anime is for children"
Perfect Blue: hold my screwdriver-
yo 20 years ago??
@@BenDover-bk5on yessirr
@@BenDover-bk5on 22 years ago
Akira, Midori, and Belladonna of Sadness.
@@BenDover-bk5on HA!
The most terrifying thing abt this movie for me is how scarily accurate it got psychosis. I've experienced psychosis, and the blending of reality and your mind is so similar to how the movie shows it. The questioning of if you or your experiences are real and the mistaking real things for fantasy and vise versa. Absolutley terrifying shit for people who've never had it and for people who have.
this
I had a psychotic break while in the ICU back in 2016, when complications of Crohn's Disease caused me to go septic. Actually, I think it was after they treated the sepsis and sent me back home without discovering the root cause, causing me to have to return because my health continued to decline. Turns out, I had a fistula and abscess that had been missed for MONTHS. It was horrible not being able to trust my own brain. To this day, I still don't know what was real and what I hallucinated during that time. It started with hearing movie gangster voices coming out of my IV machine, making me think there was some sort of electronic malfunction, but when no one else heard it, it scared me. Then it progressed to hallucinating full Looney Tunes cartoons, apparently from memory, as the TV wasn't on a cartoon station. I became convinced at one point that the nurses and even my parents were in on a plot to drive me insane. Stuff would appear on the whiteboard that wasn't actually there, like poems. It was so weird. @_@ I have no other history of psychosis, and it's believed that it happened because of either a medication I was given or because I was so sick that my mind deteriorated along with my body. Hopefully, I never have such an experience ever again.
This movie almost cause a derealization episode for me. The movie did such a great job, I was questioning if what I was experiencing was real
@@HououMinamino damn I'm so glad you got out of it. For real. This hits close to home... keep on being strong ❤️ same goes for all the people in the comments that have experienced derealization.
I had psychosis when I was 15 and got sent to hospital. I didn't know what was real or fake, I couldn't keep track of time, I didn't know if it was day or night as I was put in a room with no windows as I had a broken a mirror in my room. The room had padding so that I didn't kill myself. I wrote my experiences and crazy ideas of what was happening to me in a journal, to the point where I genuinely believed I had super powers, telekinetic/psychic abilities. When they let me go, it was snowing and I thought I was controlling the weather. The mind is a powerful thing. I'm okay now though.
I remember a few years ago when some guy got on stage and attacked a girl group, he stabbed them. The girls were taken to the hospital, of course, and he went to prison for attempted murder. This was in Japan. 🙁
this movie is very good, and terrifying. Apart from the violence, the way they shows obsession, breakdown, mima's lost of reality, and the way her life just bend to something so horrifying, is just something hard to watch. it shows us movie like we are seeing everything and experiencing everything with her, which made it more scary.
People: Anime is for kids
Perfect Blue: yeah about that-
So funny man .
There is more of an adult, philosophical, or deep anime out there, you just need to find it.
Raiko Seria can you recommend some more? I’m mostly not into anime but psychologically thriller kind of movies
People say cartoons are kids not so much anime
@@tintedcherry I don't know about thriller, but I can suggest some psychological\philosophical. Evangelion, Paprika, Paranoia agent, Texhnolize, Ergo proxy, Lain.
Rewatching this anime movie reminded me of Korean popstars or idols. Not everybody notices it, but they are not people anymore, their products used by the company to sell music.
In every idol group you find, theres at least one of them admitting or breaking down in social media or video about how nobody sees them as persons.
And yes, creepy fans do sneak up on stage and attempt to kidnap them, before security pulls them out.
Cherry Lasting Hmmm very interesting comment kinda reminds me of the recent lost of Kim Jong-hyun (Rest In Peace young soul)
Unfortunately we have all have been pushed to mask ourselves in an effort to meet the standards of society I am very guilty of this and often feel ashamed of faking my authenticity but I find what really helps is having at least one person you can share your 'true self' with or at least a portion of that hidden self to release some of our darker emotions that are often suppressed in fear of judgement from the rest of the world who more or less goes through the same crisis but prefers to deny it and instead ridicule and label those who do step forward and admit "Yes I am not what you want me to pretend to be"as crazy,weak or weird because deep down they lacked to courage to do so because of the need in us all to be accepted and appear normal From my experience coming out of the shadows and allowing others to accept your 'ugliness' as oppose to the alter-ego you portray yourself to be in the public's eye is a healthier alternative than choosing to repress your inner feelings which often leads to being trapped in a state of deep loneliness, depression and withdrawal,thinking that no one else in the world can understand/know the real you when in reality many of them can (we're not as different as we imagine ourselves to be ). I was shocked by how much empathy was shown to towards me when I did this,of course some persons rejected me for it,many being my friends and family who were suppose to be those 'closest' to me but I soon grew to value quality other quantity, loving myself and those who still saw value in me when I was at my lowest moments and appreciating me for it, revealing themselves to me in return But it would seem addressing this issue is made much more difficult for celebs and in general,anyone who is constantly pushed into the spotlight. It's as if they are always expected to be almost barbie or machine-like at all times displaying near perfect behaviour with hardly any room allowed to be human in order to indulge the illusionary fantasies and dreams of the masses at the expense of their own reality It's like the industries only see them as money-making robot/puppets/slaves as soon as they reach a certain level of stardom much like how our governments tend to only see the population as a source of expendable income, raising and working us like "cattle" so to speak in an effort to keep the economy afloat often suffocating citizens who show signs of thinking or acting outside the conventional norms established by our matrix It's definitely tragic that many of our celebs/entertainers that give us so much joy and memories are forced into this troubling position both by us (the fans and media) and by their seniors (the managers, record label owners etc) What saddens me as well is that they don't appear to have many people in their life if any at all that they feel they can genuinely reach out to for help
This is truly sad :'(
It's a tragedy, that these idols are treated like this!
Oh gosh, I watched it today and yes, that's the first thing I realised too!
trueeeeeeeee
Being an idol brings toxic people to be your fans and that could lead you to the downward spiral that we have in this movie.
The Bjork stalker case was already pretty well known while it was brand new, so it's very well possible that Kon may have known about it. I have memories of seeing it on the news when I was a kid.
For me the scariest thing was that mema had to go trough all of this ALONE. All that pain and questions and no one seems to care. And the one person who actually kinda cared about her turned out to be the root of her suffering. This definetly reflects mental illness the best, when you're sick it seems like no one else is. You are alone.
There needs to me more animated movies like Perfect Blue. It's phenomenal proof that adult-orientated animation can be so much more than just South Park-esque comedy.
EDIT: Wow...this is my most liked comment ever (so far)! Thanks a ton, everyone. :)
I agree. There are so many settings today that could make for some great psychological symbolism.
But no, they prefer to make crap shows.
Unfortunately there is this concept of "animation=funny time for kids or comedy time for adults" in our society, that prevents companies(also many japanese ones) from founding more serious animation projects. Animation is a fantastic media that can express much more than a live action movie, exaclty like comics and mangas can express much more than books, but it's not taken seriously enough for now, especially in western countries like US and Europe. I really hope that this general "light" view on animation will change one day.
LadyKraken yup exactly my thoughts. We people are privileged to not be like those other people and get to experience such wonderful and evocative pieces of art. Who cares what the medium (animated or live action) is as long as it is great. Personally I feel animation has more potential than real people and real settings.
Not only movies but series. Like Monster for example.
8:54 There’s another part to this scene that I love. The reason Mima doesn’t stay in his hand is because someone in the audience threw a can at her. Mima when she dodged the can, made it look as if it was part of the choreography. She is so used to people throwing stuff at her to the point she can make it look intentional.
She started off at a young age right? So it makes sense, good observation!
There's 2 can at here,the can🥫 and the literally can lol
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I don't see it 😂😂
@@iamgonnagocryagain1401 it's in the scene from the anime. It's not included in this video
Random thought, but I like how they don't just use some random generic fish for her fish tank, but neon tetras, which are very real and very distinct little fish. It's a nice touch to add a touch of realism.
when i saw the neon tetras it kinda reminded me of my own home. i have a couple in my fish tank too.
Just watched this movie last night and I was absolutely blown away. The things that were done in this movie especially towards the end was just unbelievable
I really think social media is going to be part of our downfall as a society. It’s crazy that a movie from like 20 years ago can help convey that so well.
wow I just realized that 1997 was 21 years ago '-' I wasn't even born at that year, but I feel like it was like 10 years ago (22 now)
Yes, it's so sad! :)
I think social media for common interest is fine (I.e. pages to share information on favourite books etc.) but not as a place to showcase yourself to the public and to portray yourself in a certain light
Scary how my govt professor tells me that
Paul A. M. Exactly
i swear to god when i watched the film i always thought it was a little odd how the stalker and the manager looked a little similar
yeah i noticed that too. they're the only ones with eyes that far from each other
Oh wow now I see it
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Has anyone ever noticed that not only the external factor of people who are really obsessed to us begin to impersonate ourselves to keep their ideal, but it is also important to note that personal issue of insecurity also plays huge role in Mima's character development? Come to think of her inner conflict deciding whether or not her decisions are correct, and then drowning herself in that contemplation to the point of which she didn't even believe her eyes. I think it is also a very rellevant topic nowadays since the narrative is everyone can be anyone, but people do forgot about who they truly are without having a certain personas
I haven't watched Perfect Blue yet but you discussing the concept of duality makes me want to watch it.
The thing is, it's so real. We are all performers and we are all audience to someone else's performance. And half the time, we don't know where we begin and where our avatar ends.
As someone who overthink a lot about everything, I've always wondered what was the right thing to do. To not take out my anger on my loved ones because I loved them. Or to just tell them how much they've hurt me because it's the truth.
The duality exists in our normal day to day interactions as well. I hate it when someone tells me they cannot imagine me having depression or anxiety, experiences that I'm still going through, just because I laugh a lot and smile.
I don't know what I am. I don't know if I'm faking it or if the others just don't get it.
It messes with my head and yes, it loosens my grasp on what is real and what is not. So, in short, I'm really excited to see how perfect blue portrays this fear because this fucking terrifies me.
I think we all, upto some extent, create an avatar to try to meet everybody's( and most importantly our own) expectations and not tarnish their views on us. Normally everyone has their inner vulnerable sides that they might be hesitant to show to others. But when we finally discuss them with someone close one, it is a cathartic and relieving feeling. Ofcourse it is not as easy as it is to write, sometimes it might hurt our closed ones (as you mentioned). Sometimes we get so caught up in maintaining that avatar, that we might subside our true feelings and that leads us to think "Who is the real me?"
I have no idea about your personal struggles but I think I kind of relate to what you said here.
All I mean to say at the end of all this is that there is nothing wrong in acknowledging your true feelings. You are the one who knows yourself better than anyone and so you should have the utmost say on your feelings. You are the real you and I sincerely hope you push through your struggles and problems.
"We pour hours every day into grooming and preening this make believe instance of us. Making sure the perfect version of ourself is put forward for the world to see."
What about the rest of us who just picked smug anime girls for shitposting?
hurrdurrmurrgurr that's your sense of perfect. An ironic avatar basically makes you untouchable.
That's deep man.
What if you just shitpost with an avatar of a once human who sacrificed his entire squad to become a God Demon and then proceed to brutally rape his best friend's woman in front of him while he is forced to watch?
Computer17Blue then you've done nothing wrong
holy shit dude
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If you take away someone's identify then what's left?"
This sentence makes me question everything I do and my existence.
Every day as a high school student and I think about this a lot.
Identity is just the carcass. If they take ur identity and u still can clarify your existence, then u can say u truly exist as yourself
An empty shell, still going around. That's why my favourite K-pop idol is and always has been Shedinja
I literally read this comment 1 second after he said it
@@Hugex97 Hmm, you mean if perhaps society or religion or parents or the media or something like that bereaves your identity, if you still have a purpose then you're really living?
I'm still getting goosebumps as I go through these comments
12:38 thank God I can finally breathe after that scary narrating
There is also the Christina Grimmie case where the stalker fan actually succeeded in his perverted murder-suicide plan. This kind of stuff is truly terrifying.
SnowPhoniex He planned it. He was obsessed.
The Dreamer wait,what? Most killers have a high IQ of 145?!? where did you hear this from?!?
psychopaths are highly intelligent people who lose their way because of various reasons like depression and social anxiety. just because they are criminals doesn't mean they are dumb.
Psychopaths don't experience depression or social anxiety. They're also not killers. Don't spread things like that.
+The Dreamer
No... Psychopaths have emotions and sometimes are even impulsive. What psychopaths don't have is innate sense of compassion and empathy. It's because parts of their brain called amygdalae are not very active and it's something you are born with. Upbringing can lessen the effects if a child is taught compassion at a young age but it's a birth defect, not something that happens to you because of some sort of event.
What you are describing is probably some sort of trauma, not psychopathy. Please don't spread misinformation.
Dude, 12 is too young to first see this movie. I'd have ended up traumatized.
I guess it depends. I was a bit older when I first saw it and rather enjoyed but after rewatching it as an adult I actually was scared, or more like spent the rest of the night all anxious
Arturo Stojanoff I'm 12 and when I just watched it... Man I am traumatized just like those other Physiological Horror.
Why do I keep accepting my brother's requests on watching together with them...
I watched it at 11 lmao
I've seen it when I was 10 v':
Arturo Stojanoff I’m 12 and watched it, I didn’t even find it that scary it was just sad.
This movie was so incredible. It was probably the grossest I've felt while watching a movie, and although I've never experienced any sort of mental instabilities, I genuinely felt like I was the subject experiencing some sort of psychotic break.
The most disturbing part of this movie was trying to figure out if Mima was in danger and who was threatening her. Whether it was some real person such as the stalker or if her mind had created someone that wasn't real.
i think it also stands to mention that the film also relates to society's objectification of women, especially in japan. the idol industry is terrifying on its own, what with the infantilization of girls (wanting female idols or even seiyuus to be younger/making them look younger) and the way they're put upon pedestals. stuff like otakus destroying their merchandise of women because they think she's done porn/gravure or is dating someone is commonplace and i think that's really fucked up.
EDIT 6/20/17: i've silenced notifications from this thread so i won't be responding to anything here anymore. you guys have fun continuing the conversation, though.
I really disagree with people when they say '' especially in Japan ''.
I mean come the hell on, the American music industry is basically softcore porn by comparison to Japan, and the child beauty pagents in America is among the creepiest things on the planet.
Not to mention the immense issue with peadophilia in Hollywood.
And as far as I am aware at least, the whole Otaku thing is more of a thing outside of Japan than in Japan.
'' Otakuism '' is not glorified and fetischized in Japan as it is by many in the West, but considered something shameful.
Then again, I take issue with the way people speak of objectification in general too.
A lot of people have an extremely narrow-minded view on it imo. And more often than not it is the same people who accuse others of objectifying people who do it themselves.
How often don't you see the same people who cry out about sexual objectification be the first people to shame and judge women based on how they look and nothing else? As well as treating them as crap and as if they weren't even human.
In the end of the day, I think that the biggest problem with objectification today is how people can't seem to mind their own business and realize that there is no such thing as a '' real woman '' ( or '' real man '' ).
Just because a woman dresses and behaves a certain way doesn't make her a '' faulty woman '' who needs to get '' fixed ''.
Which is how women who do express themselves sexually and are very sexually loaded as people are treated by the very same ones who accuse others of being misogynistic and sexually obectifying.
There are obviously people whom approve of it who also treat them like crap, but the current attitude of for a lack of a better term, '' SJW's ''. Well, it's not really any better nor different. It's just two sides of the same coin.
I think that our perception is the problem. And how we perceive things affect our behaviour.
I personally just wish that people would treat each other with dignity and respect no matter how they choose to carry themselves or express themselves sexually etc ( so long as they don't harm others ).
And I also see a lot of people who claim to be for equality make some very disturbing assumptions about people. Such as making assumptions about the sexual availability of others based on how they dress. And treating other human beings as political objects and denying others their own right to their minds and bodies, claiming to speak on their behalf.
The current discussion when it comes to video games especially is a mine field of this. And these so called '' pop culture critics '' come across as extremely disturbed and twisted people imo. The assumptions that they make about others on very superficial grounds are quite frankly extremely disturbing and sad to me, and also says more about them than anyone else.
And in the end of the day. Men have been objectified since the very beginning too. Just in different ways than women have.
What else would you call having all of your freedom taken away from you to be sent out to work yourself to an early grave? And look back at art throughout history, the naked male body used to be considered the peak of beauty. Even by other men, and was constantly depicted.
There is nothing wrong with this, what's wrong is how people choose to perceive it ( imo ).
Mc Mcluvin you make great points that I agree with, but me saying "especially in Japan" was meant as "this is a Japanese film and it is talking about Japanese society with Japanese characters". i should have said ''specifically'' instead, lol. i really hate the way Western people generalize Japan as well, it's annoying and often borderline racist and i try not to do it myself.
The Japanese Idol industry is indeed something that baffles me as how far it's distanced from reality, even worse then some of those things elsewhere. It's almost as if many force themselves to be in a near dream like state because day to day life is so bad in Japan.
interesting; i haven't thought of it that way. i wonder if studies have been done on the relation of otaku culture and the difficulty of the japanese school system? like, i feel like it can be a form of escapism for youth that have lots of pressure on them. (the incredibly high suicide rates in japan also makes me think this...)
That's exactly what that is.
Now this. This is my type of horror. Not jumpscares, not ghosts... just psychological terror. Mm, love it
It is rare to find Movies animated or not in this form of Horror more so for Video games these days
jumpscares are hardly even horror
@@prismancy7182 ikr
Technically Mina's ghost is here but I get you 😉
I think hereditary is a phycological thriller type movie. So you should watch it I guess.
the whole movie was terrifying and the music enhanced it 😥 honestly timeless and ahead of its time. Black Swan copying Perfect Blue annoys me even more
Have you seen black swan? Watch the film before making stupid claims
@@gasslighterr Darren Arronofsky has admitted that Perfect Blue influenced a lot of scenes in Requiem for a Dream, as well as many themes and scenes behind Black Swan. He changed a lot of Black Swan from the originally script. In other words, there would be no Black Swan the way the final edit turned out if it wasn’t for Perfect Blue.
@@Emma88178 it still does not mean perfect blue is the superior film, if anything black swan is the progressed version to the animated tedious ending that is perfect blue. Meaning, darren aronofsky took the best from perfect blue and incorporated it into his film, leaving the poor parts behind.
Me, who hasn't watched Perfect Blue yet: 👁👄👁
ugh i need to😫😫🤨
@@jaelynlorin7336 ughh iwant to
@@rohannabendiola9897 watch it!! it's on youtube! :)
@@ella-gy2kw i dont have any money to buy it
I wanted to watch it for the longest time but I'm so scared to 😭
So I went ahead and watched perfect blue before this video, thinking it's gonna be a normal horror and holy shit my hands are shaking right now.
cringed tbh
The movie was just insane, especially during the chase scene with rumi, I was so tense during it.
how did it go
Literally same. This was genuinely the most disturbing piece of media I have ever seen
Why is everyone so freaked out by this movie? It was really interesting and kept me hooked but it wasn't that scary tbh.
SPOILER:
ok so when I watched the movie I didn't really focus much on the stalker but Rumi. It was because I thought it was kind of weird why she kept butting into Mima's life and why she cared so much. I knew that it was her job as the manager but I kept thinking about it. Why did she prevent Mima from becoming a actress? Why did she cry so much when Mima's "perfect idol picture" was ruined by the rape scene. Of course it pieces all together at the end when it reveals her disorder but in movies like these you have to keep questioning about the tiniest details because they can lead you to the final answer
I didn't really interpret it like that. I thought she just had a motherly care for Mima so I was really shocked when at the end, it turned out that she was the culprit for Mima's psychosis to progress.
it’s so weird how they made they manager look like a good guy on the surface. At first i thought she cried because the rape scene was traumatizing, but now it’s because her perfect, innocent, idol is gone? wow
I was thinking the same thing. When Rumi was crying during Mima's rape scene I thought it was because she cared about Mima's career but when I thought about it more I figured out that she wasn't crying because she cared about Mima's career, she was crying because the rape scene would ruin her career because she saw herself as Mima.
@@chelsea2080 It does fit the pattern though as why Rumi look like she doesn’t care at first but then when Mima got rapped. She started to cry and I was like “Oh, she care about Mima.” This made me want to rewatch the movie again...
@Heejin's Nose but what does the scene where after she gets raped she gets into the car and her other agent goes to drive her and she asks, “where is rumi” and he looks nervous saying, “she’s busy” is that 8mportant?
Every single minute of your analysis was interesting, thank you so much for this
this was such a good video! as some one who has always been interested in darker stories, you did a excellent job describing the story without giving it away. thank you
Another reason why Perfect Blue is terrifying is because it is a bit of a real scenerio. Mima is dealing with EVERY celebrity's wrost nightmare, a crazy obsessed fan who is not mentally well. look at examples like Rebecca Schaeffer, Jodie Foster, Theresa Saldana, or Christina Grimmie.
Don't forget Latin Pop star Selena who got killed by a super fan
Right. In the scene where Mima agrees to the rape scene, the producer even references Jodie Foster's oscar winning role in The Accused. Foster was referenced because her obsessed stalker, John Hinkley, was so desperate to get her attention, he tried to assassinate then US president, Ronald Regan.
Wow, what the fuck!? I never heard of that.
Granted, I'm Mexican and we're taught very little about world politics in school, but that shit seems really big.
How come I never hear it mentioned?
Yes, Foster was attending college at Yale, Hinkley enrolled in a class there so he could stalk her. But every time he would try to get together with her, she refused. So he tried to kill the US president at the time, to try to impress her. But yeah, I never found out why he tried to kill Regan until I was in college and saw the Family Guy episode "The Road to the Multiverse" where they reference him.
Hinkley was just released last year after serving 35 years in a mental hospital.
And Dimebag Darrell as well
Damn, the story of an actual lunatic fan is terrifying... when it comes to being a fan of anybody, we should be aware that they will never be the same person off camera as they are on camera, no matter how genuine they are. Setting up expectations of them and thinking their inclined to be the image you fantasized is just setting yourself up for disappointment.
Depends on who they are. I've personally spoken to my favorite band and have seen them for years to the point they got to know me as a person, and I got to know them. If you treat your favorite musician as just a person and just talk to them, you can get to know them
@@littenfire3563 I think even then, you're lucky that you're friends with them. For the most part, celebrities and fans have a parasocial relationship. Even if you treat them like every day people, that doesn't mean they'll be inclined to befriend you.
What your saying here is probably something similar to a crush isn't it? This crush will leave once the image that crush was formed on gets shattered. Like when your school crush falls down in an embarrassing way and you suddenly lose interest. Simple as that. When your crush or in this context, idol, change. That image shatters, and it's up to you, or the idol's fan to get that shattered image, and piece it back together. How that image once again repairs itself will depend on you, will it be fixed cheaply using gum and duct tape? Or will you take care of it as you turn this new information into molten glass and mold that image into something new, and something you can accept. And for acceptance, that depends, on you.
And of course, there is also obsession like this stalker guy mentioned here, he created a world with the idol image as a foundation. And when that foundation started to crumble, he did his best to fix it.
@@sapphic.flower Not for me tho every time i see a local artist i'm not fanatic like hey that is famous artist i'm just gonna be like ohhh
This is why people need to break the fourth wall constantly, so the psychopathic schizos cant jerk off to you to the point of becoming infatuated
I love the idea that you're pulling up these wonderfull presentations which are actually some kind of presentation in school only that it concerns super highly attractive topics and i love to join them. Well done, stay that way!
The ending of your video analysis really gave me goosebumps as you not only perfectly described the terrifying meaning behind not only the movie but social media, while also incorporating Perfect Blue's haunting soundtrack. Well done!!
One thing I noticed that might sound stupid is that they had these strange shots of the outside of her apartment just showing her lit window. It’s almost like someone was watching her and we are seeing from their perspective. It’s probably just me that sees that but when I thought of that I got really creeped out...
I think that was the director purpose ! When you view mima it’s from someone else perspective not her own. It was suppose to
Show how truly objectified we r
That was definitely on purpose and it’s a popular move-but I love that touch. I believe they used shots like that in The Bodyguard, too, which is a similar movie.
No I was noticing that too. Idk why, but those shots were soo creepy to me. And I don't live in an apartment!
basically korean kpop fans
honestly allot of them are just straight up terrifying
Test Subject 13 frr
Especially after one of them licked the toilet seat that a kpop idol used, and sold the kpop idol's urine/pee online. Disgusting.
@Rie Ta yes I can
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Calling them idols didn’t age well
Perfect Blue has to be one of my most favorite movies i find the film “beautiful” and so interesting
Good god, man. This is definitely my existential crisis for today. Insightful video, great work!