The psychological thriller in 1997 "Perfect Blue" is ranked as one of the worst animated films ever and remains one of the greatest works To his director, the late Satoshi towardsAlso. If you've never seen "Perfect Blue", it's now the perfect time, because it is reworked in 4K and is currently playing in cinemas (Distributed by gkids).

"Perfect Blue" follows pop singer Mima Kirigo (Junko Ivao), who turns to act in a new thriller TV series, "Double Tied". As she begins this career shift, Mima is trying to balance the expectations of her fans and agents with her own doubts about what kind of woman she wants to be. All this makes Mima suffering a crisis with an identity ... and from there it only becomes creeping.

Stunning and obsessed Mima-Fan likes His Mima, the innocent pop singer, back and revives the new Mima to "replace" her. People close to Mima's new career, as a screenwriter of her Big Brake crime or paradise photographer, are beginning to appear dead. Mima also learns that someone is posting as her on the Internet website, Mima's room, someone who knows things that only Mima should know.

"Perfect Blue" wasn't the first anime movie I've ever loved, but gave me such a high, finally dove to the media. I spent the last five years learning to love anime and "perfect blue" first showed me why I should try. AS /Film Bj Colangelo said, "Perfect Blue" is a movie type that shows you how good an animation can be.

The first time you see "Perfect Blue", it aims to leave you confused; Like Mima, you lose a trace of what is real and what not. Even when you question and fit the pieces together, it is still frightening To see it all like playing out. I refer to every stab or violence burst, which is increasingly terrifying and more beautiful in the new remey. While "perfect blue" rivals The best gyloHis most frightening part is how he weaves that violence along with social comment.

"Perfect Blue" is specifically for Japan's entertainment industry, so Mima begins as A. Pop idolA kind of celebrity, and specific to Japan. However, the film's comment on the exploitation of women in that industry is universal. Mima's great step to understand "seriously" as an actress is to act in a rape stage; The attack is not RealBut in the animated world, there is a small limit or visual difference between the scenes recorded and the reality in the universe. Mima's attack will sink in your place, trying to look aside as "real".

It's not just managing the talent that exploits stars. The film opens to a concert where Mima and her singing band Jam! play. Before we meet Mima, we hear fans in the crowd of gossip about her. Once a yam! She took the stage, the movie cross sections between Mima's performance and her ordinary life, from groceries to buy to return to her apartment. There are two Mima, the "real" and the puppet pop idol that she acts as for the public. Contemporary glory removes every line of separation between the public and the private, opening both spectacular and judgment.

Mima needs to learn how to use a computer during "Perfect Blue", a sign of how new internet is when the movie is made ... but it dates only highlights the conscience of the film. The Internet is a scary place. It can swallow your brain, capture you in fixations and negative thinking patterns if you keep a screen as the main company. It can offer a rest from loneliness, but it really doesn't solve it. On the internet, people can know you without knowing them, because every conversation is easier to have when it is a one -way street.

The "parasocial relationship" is often used to describe intensively accidentally internet and Stalker's fixation for Mima absolutely qualifies. He is obsessed with the version of her he created, the one he hears in his head, speaking back to him and will not tolerate his idol to change. If she does, he will annoy him and punish that "betrayal".

The obsession and the random existed in front of the internet, yes, but the presence of the Internet on celebrity gave us an epicing behind their public appearances. It is too easy your loveube to a work of art or celebrity to turn into a feeling of ownership or is due to giving that waste. It is especially easy for this to happen to musicians like Mima, because no form of art is more intimate to share than music. While filling your headphones, you let someone talk to you. The good song can give you the words to understand the feelings you already had, blurry lines and the singer.

Most of us will never know fame as Mima does, but changing who is to suit what people expect from you? You don't have to be a pop -starvisor to understand that. Opening the public now means putting yourself on the biggest phase of all, the internet, and if you allow it, the online voice of the legion will define who you are.

Mima spends the whole movie trying to find the answer to one question, the first line her character in "Double Bind" says, "Who are you?" The discovery of it almost kills and drives her crazy - she is cheated all over the movie with a picture of her pop -idol, still dressed in feminine but sexualized doll clothing. At the end of "Perfect Blue", she has her answer for who she is. Do you?

The processed edition of "Perfect Blue" is currently being played in cinemas.