Huynh Perfect Blue

Perfect Blue was a good wake up to "reality". I've always wondered about reality, and what it is, but I get so lost in it, I take a break from thinking about it too much. The thought of reality is overwhelming and can get scary at times. Perfect Blue was very interesting, in the storyline as well as the way it was showed. The view is left in the dark most of the time, but there are extremely subtle hints in the movie. Like how Rumi was extremely sad when Mima had to do the rape scene. Of course it is something that one would be against, but it seemed that Rumi took it personally, as if she had been raped herself. In Rumi's mind she was indeed raped, because she projected herself as Mima, the pop idol, getting raped. Throughout the movie, the audience doesn't know if who they're watching is Rumi's image of Mima, or the real Mima. Throw in an insane stalker, Me-Mania, and you've got yourself a movie that is more confusing than Inception!

A picture of Me-Mania taken from foros.cristalab.com

I believe that we never saw the real Mima until the end of the movie. Rumi was being haunted by her past self the entire time in the movie. When Mima is filming the TV series, Double Bind, I believe that was Rumi the entire time as the actor, manager, and reflection of the pop idol. You can interpret this movie in many ways, which is amazing! What the director did here is amazing, and simply awesome.

Back to the idea of reality, I think something like the matrix is going on here. If you've never watched it, it seems pretty lame now, but the concept is really good (to me). This life is all fake, something like a "hyper-reality", and that our real bodies are outside in the "real" world. We're all living here in "this world" trying to make an identity for ourselves. Maybe we're all trying to find our "real" identities of ourselves, so we can accept our "true selves" in the "real" world. Is that the meaning of life "here"?