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I honestly have no idea where to even start with the movie Perfect Blue. It was enjoyable to me, but then again I like thrillers, suspense movies and Alfred Hitchcock movies. Mima is an ‘innocent’ pop singer in a three woman group called Cham! When she announces her plans to become an actress and stop singing, stuff hits the fan. She becomes stalked by Me-Mania, starts to lose touch with herself, people get murdered, and she almost gets killed. For most of the movie, I thought Mima was crazy, like Nina in Black Swan. I wasn’t able to distinguish if Mima was doing something or someone else who thought they were Mima was doing it. I thought she was killing all these people. The moment I knew for sure that it was not her killing everyone, is the moment that the Mima jumping around in the dress turns into Rumi in the street.
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Through most of the film I feel like Mima isn’t even sure of who she is as a person; this does not surprise me at all. As a female celebrity she has all kinds of people dictating who she should be, how she should act, and what she should do. She changed from a innocent pop singer to a rape victim that had pornographic pictures taken of herself. Her fans basically feel like she doesn’t have the right to stop singing and move on to acting. Rumi thinks Mima is ruining her(Mima’s) reputation and ultimately tries to kill her for it. Her office manager, Tadokoro, is pushy and wants Mima to become an actress. Me-Mania/Uchida is just a crazy stalker that is more than a little upset that she is pursuing a career in acting now instead of singing.
I’ll tie this post up with a little spin on the webpage about her that is written by someone claiming to be her. This is extremely frustrating. I had someone from another country use my pictures and name, my facebook pictures and information, and make a facebook. They spoke some sort of Arabic language, and only had guys added. This is irrelevant, but the point I’m trying to make is that you feel very invaded when someone does something like that. As soon as this aspect was mentioned in class I was thinking ‘oh wow, that happened to me !’
I have to agree with you that the movie was really confusing. We didn't know if it was really Mima who was killing people, if it was someone else, or if Mima was just imagining the whole thing. I think it's really weird but also interesting to see how Mima is treated by her agents, fans, and the media throughout the movie. After watching this, it makes me feel bad for celebrities to have their lives so thoroughly examined by the media and the general public. I think everyone has the right to a private life to be kept to themselves. But DUUDE it really sucks that that happened to you! That's just horrible. But they didn't outright contact or say anything to you right?
ReplyDeleteThis movie is just crazy! I didn't know that Rumi was killing all of these people until I saw the pop-idol Mima turn into Rumi in the street as well! I knew that Rumi wasn't normal due to the fact that she took Mima's career change to heart. Crazy thing is, yes this does probably happen to modern day actresses and actors. They are controlled by people like us, because we're the ones who make them celebrities haha. That sucks about the Facebook thing... It seems you have some pretty bad luck with the internet. That brings up another idea that was brought up in class, about hyper-reality. Just like what was said in class, anyone can become you!
ReplyDeleteAahahah, its extremely creepy when someone tries to take your identity as their own! AnhTri, I should just stay away from the internet, huh? And Hillary, nope! I even messaged them and reported them to facebook, but as I know well enough already, trying to get someone to take something off the internet is near impossible.
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