Perfect Blue (1997)
| director: | Satoshi Kon |
| release-year: | 1997 |
| genres: | anime, psychological, thriller |
| countries: | Japan |
| languages: | Japanese |
Serial Experiments: Lain meets Fight Club. A little boring in the first half, a little sloppy in the second.
A bubbly young J-Pop idol quits her up-and-coming teeny-bopper trio to take a background role in a Law & Order TV drama.
Her little fan base, led by a guy who is drawn to look extra creepy at all times, makes a blog on the nascent internet pretending to be her. Her internet doppelganger shares many of her innermost thoughts and knows everywhere she has been, but also deeply regrets leaving the pop group.
She begins to question whether she is herself, or her blog. She starts hallucinating a pop star variant of herself, and loses track of reality.
Everyone around her begins to die. She wonders if she should be worried about her safety, or others should be worried about her.
But, as is true for so many performers, the problem was just poor management. With a good wig, you, too, can look thin and beautiful and fly.
