Perfect Blue

Mima is a young woman who is part of a three member musical group known as "Cham". They are an upcoming group that is just about to get on the top charts. But, for some reason Mima's advisors urge her to switch from singer to actor.

Without much difficulty, she gets a part in a big movie. Some people like the switch, others don't. Her life goes on and she, like any other normal person surfs the internet. Mima finds a website about herself that seems to be created by a fan of hers, but the information on it seems to almost be her deepest inner thoughts displayed on a webpage. She finds this striking, and at first dismisses it because she is tired and just wants to go to sleep.

But when she finds her own thoughts posted on the internet night after night, she begins to get very suspicious. What she finds on the web appears to be her true self talking, but at this point in the movie she has stifled her true feelings, and sacrificed them in order to be successful.

Mima thinks that a stalker may getting the information for the site, and her fears are confirmed when a grotesque looking man attacks her. From that point on almost all the events in the movie are open to debate whether they are real. A virtual second dimension opens up for Mima and she can't tell the difference between what's real and what's not anymore. The movie tries to make it like that for the viewer as well by shuffling things up and making discrepancies between what certain characters said or did.

Perfect Blue is a masterpiece. Many people compare it to the thrillers by Hitchcock. The movie hinges upon flawless plot execution, and Perfect Blue delivers. It puts the viewer through an intellectual roller coaster and then some.

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