Perfect Blue
Just watched this ‘classic’ Anime - its been one of those films that I’ve been meaning for years to watch and seeing as I had the day off today thanks to the bank holiday I figured I had nothing better to do.
And to be honest, it wasn’t really worth it. The film isn’t exactly ‘bad’ - its just not very good. It has the same basic problems I have with a lot of Anime - the plot either is too basic or it doesn’t make any sense. In this case it actually manages to do both. The basic plot is a pretty basic, to the point where I’m sure I’ve seen it in an Inspector Morse/A touch of Frost/any other generic mystery show episode somewhere. It follows the lead character as she quits her band and then becomes an actress - where she starts to feel guilty about spending most of her time in rather ’seedy’ roles. On top of this she begins to get a stalker who it appears is starting to become violent.
And that’s it.
The rest of the film (which is fairly short) simply is more confusing than interesting. While it is a time-honored tradition in films where theres a ‘are they crazy or not?’ vibe to screw around with the audience this film goes waayy too far in its attempts. The end result is that I just stopped caring. But still it was only 80 minutes so if your looking for a fairly ok thriller you can do worse I suppose.
Anyway, I found this clip for a fake trailer for the movie on youtube. Done as a ‘romcom’ it’s actually more entertaining than the fillm: