Just what I expected

I'll tell you why so serious

Highly Overrated But Still Good

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

"Perfect Blue" is a very, very dark anime...so don't let your kids watch it thinking it's like "Pokemon" or "Inuyasha"! It's also a confusing mind-bending sort of film...one that certainly is unique.When the anime begins, Mima is in an up and coming pre-packaged Japanese girl bands. However, her agent convinces her to leave this life and pursue a career in films. But this way to success is very dark and soul-crushing and soon they have her in a film featuring a rape, lots of violence and nudity. All the while, Mima struggles with herself. She hates what she's doing but in the world of female pop stars and starlets, she feels a sense of obligation and won't publicly question the folks looking after her career. Now at this point, the film gets weird...really, really weird. Mima seems to be losing her mind and some murders occur...and soon the viewer is confused and they might be seeing the world through the eyes of a lunatic...or a killer! What's it all mean? See the film and TRY to unravel it all...but don't be surprised if you still are questioning what it all means.This is a very clever film and its plot is deep and very strange...and I liked that. But be forewarned...the film shows some very sexually explicit and violent scenes...even by Japanese standards (the film features pubic hair...something very taboo in Japanese culture). Well done and worth seeing...but just don't let the kids see it or anyone who have been sexually abused as a few of the scenes just might be too intense.

I had love for Miyazaki's movies because of his imagination, screenplay and story. Fortunately ran into this and started watching it as another anime movie but it was a rarity. If akira is one type, then its just another side. Both are extremes. It may bot have all the regular/imaginative ingredients of an animated movie but sure can twist your mind and it is a must watch for people who loved thrillers and non- linear screenplay movies like memento, Amores Perros, Mullholand Dr. Must watch. Its just not a anime movie; much more than that. Glad I watched it. You will feel for the main character who (although it was animated) very well. Go for the original Japanese audio movie with English subs rather than English dubbed. You will have THAT feel.

Mima: "Excuse me who are you".The story is about a retired 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, analysing the pop icon phenomenon, fame and its psychological impact on the performer.It always shocks me how some people can dare to over look things, solid masterpieces out there but people still over look them and go see other films that are just stick in the mood basic films. I just adore the feeling of not knowing anything at the first then be amazed after wards and a film that get's you thinking as well, not like movies today that always play it save by doing the simple three act structure that I normally skip if I had the chance. Perfect Blue can be best described has a movie that you don't just put your feet up, sit back and have a delightful time, no in this you got to use your brain and try your best to piece it together to get the movie. Perfect Blue is Anime that got under my skin and drove the main character and me insane.A quick fun fact here but Black Swan is actually a remake of this movie, yes to those who didn't know that well you do now. If I have to compare what's the better movie I got to say that overall Black Swan is a great movie, but I liked Perfect Blue a lot more so Perfect Blue all the way.The animation in this never looked so well done, so beautiful but also scary and so haunting to look at. At times I thought I was watching a Hayao Miyazaki movie or a Stanley Kubrick film at one point, just be the switch of the atmosphere like it's peacefulness and then a utterly insane feeling to the movie.For problems: Without spoiling anything the ending to me didn't end on a good note in my opinion. It isn't terrible it's just that it left me there going "Nah".Overall Perfect Blue is an dark and twisted Anime movie with beautiful but haunting animation that sells the movie off has a deep thinking movie that you shouldn't get lost on track if you really want to understand the film. The film is a slow cult following that I will totally recommend to people who love Anime and analyzing films.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156887/ This was an very deep anime movie, I think I begin to understand why it's called Perfect Blue, Perfect Blue might mean that the sea is deep and it is a parabel, metaphor for the film's message is deep, so assume that the color blue is deep, and when something is completely and deeply so it must be blue and perfect. In short, the movie is about the psycho logical aspects of schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress because she is a burned-out artist but choose to change your occupation to an actress, but then trying to broaden their fanbase by changing their image. She does this by sailing on the sea as a fashion model. This will of course not help, but she thinks she can change, believe that everything will be all right if she changes careers to something that may not be as hard for her. The film's director is not a master, because you did not really understand what was what in the film, they could have improved it so that you understand or that they had any character who could understand what was going on during the movie. Sometimes she dreamed, but then got it all the way out there, sometimes she dreamed or dreamed, she did not and then did not know the time horizon of the film. The ocean is deep ocean is deep .... The movie was boring because it stagnated in some places and it was not a success, the other negative I found with this film was that the film did not have a better description or illustration of the stalker in the film. Then you do not know even if it was a stalker or it was hallucinations from her. I'm not going to seek out theories on what people think, the movie gets 5 out of 10, good try to depict how a famous person affected by stalkers and how one becomes mentally unstable when you think you are exposed to stalkers. The film could have easily been an 8 out of 10 of the movie been easier to understand, and if the movie had a closure instead of an open ending where you need to figure out possible explanations for the ending. possibilities for what it could have been. Then I tried the film illustrate the psychological too complex, so it was not at all successful. The music was barely sufficient to make it scary. The animation looked realistic and well done for its time and budget they spent on the film. It was unique to attempt an advanced and complicated story about a famous pop singer who becomes mentally unstable. I still recommend it because you maybe will like it if you are into open endings and complex narration. The psychology aspect is very interesting though so that was the reason I wanted to watch this