Perfect Blue ( ????????? , P ? fekuto Bur? ) is a 1997 Japanese psychological animation film directed by Satoshi Kon and written by Sadayuki Murai. It is based on the novel Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis ( ?????????????????>, P? fekuto Bur ?: Kanzen Hentai ) by Yoshikazu Takeuchi.
The film follows Mima Kirigoe, a member of a Japanese idol group who resigned from music to pursue an acting career. When he becomes a victim of stalking, he begins to lose his perception of reality and fiction. Like most of Kon's later works, such as
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Plot
Mima Kirigoe, lead singer of the fictional J-pop idol group "CHAM!", Decided to leave the group to become an actress, believing that idol group life is a dead end job. His first project was a crime drama series, Double Bind . Some fans are angry about his career change, including the stalker known as "Me-Mania". Shortly after leaving the CHAM !, Mima received an anonymous fax calling her a traitor. He also found a website called "Mima's Room", which featured a public diary entry that seemed to be written by him that covered his life in great detail. He brought the site to the attention of his manager, former pop star Rumi Hidaka, but advised to ignore it.
On set Double Bind , Mima managed to get the bigger part. However, the manufacturer decided to throw it as a rape victim in the strip club. Rumi warns Mima that it will damage his reputation, but Mima receives that part, wanting to be considered more serious as an actress. Mima trauma scene (as well as Rumi, who left the production control room crying). Mima is increasingly unable to distinguish reality from her work in the show business.
Some people involved in creating Double Bind , including authors and event photographers, were found killed. Mima found the evidence that made her a suspect in the murder, based on an entry on Mima's Room site, and her increasing mental instability made her doubt her innocence. Meanwhile, Me-Mania is constantly featured among the film crew of Double Bind, and her obsessive home life is revealed when she is shown receiving an email from Mima's idol persona via Mima's Room website. It is at this point that reality begins to tear down to the observer as well: in one scene, Mima is expressed by a police psychiatrist to become a double personality delusions of a woman named Yoko Takakura, just for the Camera Bugs boss to shout "Cut"; in another, Me-Mania eventually confronts and tries to rape Mima, stopping only when Mima knocks him unconscious with a hammer; this is also hinted as part of the filming of Double Bind . Rumi finds Mima backstage shortly thereafter, and Me-Mania's blood and body is not found on the now empty set.
Rumi offers to take Mima home. Upon arrival, Mima tries to call, but stops after realizing that she is actually in a room decorated to resemble her own idol apartment at the beginning of the movie. When Mima meets with Rumi, however, her manager wore a replica of CHAM Mima! costume and fully believes, in psychotic breaks, that she is Mima herself. Rumi is actually a fake writer in Space Mima, who believes that he is the "original Mima". Rumi is angry that Mima - who has suffered folie ÃÆ' deux throughout the film - has damaged the reputation of the "real Mima", and decides to save "Mima" a pure pop idol image by killing the real one, whom he believes is a swindler handsome. Mima manages to paralyze Rumi to defend herself after pursuing the city despite her injury, then rescues Rumi from his upcoming truck. Wounded and completely delirious, Rumi misrepresented the truck's headlights for the stage lights. Both sides collapsed when truckers called in an ambulance.
Mima, now an accomplished actress, appears in a mental institution to visit Rumi, who, believing the flowers Mima won for her as a devoted fan, seems now permanently in her "Mima" fantasy. When Mima leaves, she overhears the nurse staff believing she is a Mima trickster, because she has no reason to visit an institution. Mima enters her car and, looking into the rearview mirror, declares "I am the real one" and smiles.
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Voice cast
Actors in English adaptation are listed in the credits without specification for their respective roles: James Lyon, Frank Buck, David Lucas, Elliot Reynolds, Kermit Beachwood, Strong Sam, Carol Stanzione, Ty Webb, Billy Regan, From Mackenzie, George C Cole , Syd Fontana, Sven Nosgard, Bob Marx, Devon Michaels, Robert Wicks, and Mattie Rando.
Production
Initially, the film should have been a direct action directly to the video series, but after the 1995 Kobe earthquake damaged the production studio, the budget for the film was reduced to the original animated video. Katsuhiro Otomo is credited as a "Special Superintendent" to help the films be sold overseas, and as a result, the film is screened in many film festivals around the world. While traveling the world, they received quite a lot of praise, starting Kon's career as a filmmaker.
Kon and Murai did not think that the original novel would be a good movie and asked if they could change the contents. This change is approved as long as they keep some original concepts of the novel. Live action movie Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete was later created (released in 2002) which is much closer to the novel. This version was directed by Toshiki Sat? from the scenario by Shinji Imaoka and Masahiro Kobayashi.
Theme and analysis
Susan Napier uses the theory of feminist film to analyze the film, stating that, "Perfect Blue" announces its preoccupation with perception, identity, voyeurism and performance - especially in relation to women - right from the opening sequence. believed, with visuals set just to not become reality, especially as the height of the psychodrama toward climax. "Napier also saw themes related to pop idols and their performances as a result of their staring looks and problems. Mima's madness comes from her own subjectivity and an attack on her identity. The bond in Alfred Hitchcock's work was broken by the murder of his male controller. Otaku describes the film as "a critique of contemporary Japanese consumer society."
Like many other works by director Satoshi Kon, Perfect Blue creates a deliberate ambiguity in the theme and character. One example is the end line, "I'm the real thing", which Mima talks into her car's rearview mirror, looking at the viewer in the fourth-apparent wall break. In the original Japanese version of the film, this sentence is spoken by the Mima character but from the voice actress Rica Matsumoto, who voiced Rumi. It was abandoned from the English ranks, where the line was uttered by Ruby Marlowe.
Release
The film was released in cinemas in the UK by Manga Entertainment in 1999 and the United States by Manga Entertainment on VHS in the same year on both R-rated versions and the original version of uncut cut. It was later released in 2000 in a silent DVD release. The film was also released at UMD by Anchor Bay Entertainment on December 6, 2005. It featured movies in the big screen, leaving movies stored in black bars on a 16: 9 PSP screen. This release also contains no special features and only English audio tracks. The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD in Region B by Anime Limited in 2013.
In the US, Perfect Blue airs on cable network Encore and is featured by Sci Fi Channel on December 10, 2007 as part of its Ani-Monday block. In Australia, Perfect Blue aired on SBS Television Network on April 12, 2008 and earlier in mid 2007 at the same timeslot.
Recorded animation film distribution company, GKIDS, acquired the right of North America. GKIDS is planning a June theatrical release in its original Japanese and dubbed English versions.
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Reception
The film was well received critically at the festival circuit, winning awards at the 1997 Fantasia Festival at Montrà © Å © and the Fantasporto Film Festival in Portugal.
The critical response in the United States on its theatrical release is also positive. The film holds a 73% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus stating, "Perfect Blue overstylized, but the core of the mystery is always exciting, as are the visual theatrics." However, some critics are more diverse and link the film with common anime stereotypes about sex and violence are haphazard. Kon responds to this criticism by stating that he is "proud to be an animator" and Perfect Blue "is more interesting as an animation."
Time includes movies on Top 5 Anime movie list, and Terry Gilliam, among them Kon is a fan of putting him into the Top 50 animated films list. Perfect Blue was ranked # 25 in the Total Film animated film of all time. It also lists the movies Entertainment Weekly ' seen from 1991-2011.
Tim Henderson of Anime News Network, described the film as "a dark and sophisticated psychological thriller" with an "over-obsessive effect channeled through early Internet culture" and generated "a reminder of how many celebrity fandoms have evolved in just a decade."
Legacy
Madonna inserted the clips from the film into a remix of his song "What It Feels Like for a Girl" as a video interval during her Drowned World Tour in 2001.
In 2010 Darren Aronofsky acknowledged the similarity between Perfect Blue and his movie Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan . The re-published blog post mentions the movie Aronofsky Requiem for a Dream as the list of movies Kon had seen that year. In addition, Kon writes about his encounter with Aronofsky in 2001.
Availability of Novels
Seven Seas Entertainment has licensed the rights of English-language publications to the original Perfect Blue story for release in Q4 2017, and Q1 2018, respectively.
See also
- Frost , a TV series whose pilot episode has comparable plot and theme
Note
References
- Reference book
- Clements, Jonathan; McCarthy, Helen (2012). Anime Encyclopedia, Revision & amp; Expanded Edition: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 . Press the Stone Bridge. 867pp. ISBN: 9781611725155.
External links
- Official Manga Entertainment website at Wayback Machine (archived March 9, 2012)
- Official Geneon Entertainment website (in Japanese)
- Official Madhouse Animation website (in Japanese)
- Official Rex Entertainment website at Wayback Machine (archived February 25, 1999) (in Japanese)
- Blue Perfect (anime) in the Anime News Network encyclopedia
- Perfect Blue on IMDb
- Perfect Blue at Rotten Tomatoes
- Perfect Blue Color in Mojo Box Office
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