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This room is dedicated to the anime movie Perfect Blue, which can best be described as a “psycho-erotic thriller”. This is NOT a Disney-style movie for the kids, unless you’re the kind that likes little children to look at scenes of violence, sex and realistically rendered cartoon nudity. (You can even see the pubic hairs!)
If so, get out of here, you pervert!
For those of you willing to open your minds to the possibility of a serious cartoon, well, once again,
Mima
was a pop idol, worshipped by the masses until fashion dictated otherwise. In
order to salvage her career, she is advised to drop music and pursue acting. A
soap opera role is offered but Mima’s character is less clean cut than desired.
Regardless, she agrees and events take a turn for the worse.
She
begins to feel reality slip, that her life is not her own. She discovers
(imagines) her identical twin, a mirror image that hasn’t given up singing.
Internet sites appear describing every intimate detail of her life and a figure
stalks her from the shadows.
Her
friends and associates are threatened (and killed) as Mima descends into a
dangerous world of paranoid delusion. She fears for her life and must unravel
fact from illusion in order to stay alive.
Perfect
Blue represents a major change from traditional anime subject
matter, analyzing the pop icon phenomenon, fame and its psychological impact on
the performer.
I grabbed this from a review on the main site, http://www.perfectblue.com Go there if you want to know all the basic information, like review, production notes and even an interview with the director. This is purely a fan site, and is not in conjunction with the creators of Perfect Blue in any way.