Notes
Live-action Narrative
Perfect Blue was originally written to be a live action film, but due to unforeseen circumstances was made into an animation instead.
Hybrid Genre
This film could fall in to the genre of Drama, Thriller and Horror. The drama being a young girl trying to find her way in becoming a serious actress after being a pop idol in the girl group CHAM!. She is scared of tarnishing her reputation and never being able to be a pop idol again. The thriller ellements of the film are the fact that she is being stalked by a fan 'Me-Mania' and somebody is writing a blog called 'Mima's Room' which seems to know intimate details about Mima's life. Mima is also suffering from a split personality disorder so throughout the film we are not sure if Mima is commiting the murders or just dreaming about them. Some of the scenes in this are very bloddy and gory and these are from the horror genre.
Editing techniques
The film is edited with lots of jump-cuts which jump from scence to scene which is designed to confuse the audience as the main character Mima is confused.
Multi-layer Narrative
The film is a film within a film, not only are we seeing Mima's life, we are watching Mima'a characters life and also Mima's nightmares and dreams. The is not shown the difference between real life/ the tv character and Mima's dream it is left for us to work out for ourselves.
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