Perfect Blue

Perfect Blue - Plot

Today in class we were shown Perfect Blue (1997), an animated film directed by Satoshi Kon. The film is a hybrid genre of thriller, horror and drama. The films main protaganist is Mima Kirigoe, a young pop idol who is the girl group CHAM, Mima then decides to quit CHAM to become an actress in a strait-to-video seires in which she plays a young girl who is dillusional, Mima also changed her image and along with her change of image this upsets some of her fans, especially a fan who called himslef 'Me-Mania'.

CHAM!

Me-Mania

Mima begins to recieve strange calls and faxes in which she is called a traitor. Mima recieves a letter at her last gig telling her about a blog which is titled 'Mima's Room' and there are very personal details about Mima's life which she is confused to how anyone can know about it and she begins to wonder about who is writing her blog.

 

Mima confides in her manager Rumi about waht she found on the blog and Rumi jsut tells her to ignore it and to not keep checking it. Producers of a TV show offer Mima the starring role, but she will have to star in a rape scene, Rumi expalins to Mima that this will tarnish her reputation as a pop idol, but Mima accepts the role anyway.





Mima's Room Blog



As Mima films the scence in which her character is raped she finds this a little bit traumatic herself and then begins to find it difficult to differentiate between the life of her character and her own real life.

All the people that have helped tarnish Mima's reputation soon start to get murdered, including a photographer who took naked photo's of her. Mima finds bloddy clothes in her wardrobe and has nightmares of her stabbing people who she works with and she begins to think that she is the serial killer. Mima is seeing someone who is calling herself the real 'Mima' and see's her everywhere trying to become the pop idol that Mima once was.

At the end the audience learns that it is infact Rumi posing as the 'Real Mima' and trys to kill Mima so that she can become the pop idol Mima again, towards the end of the film we then see Rumi in a mental hospital still believing that she is the 'Real Mima'.