perfect blue analysis~

Mike 2021-12-31 08:02:55

The length is longer, serious spoilers, only my humble opinion. Perfect blue is also called Wei Ma's Department House. The reason why I went to see it is because director Jin Min’s other work "Red Pepper" is also a cross between reality and illusion. PB is more complicated than Red Pepper, and the boundary between reality and dream is more blurred, making people confused. Is it reality or illusion? Although I heard that the film is obscure, this kind of film, which is also true and false, is always full of fatal attraction, which makes many people, including me, addicted to it. The first is the plot-because it is not clear which is Wei Ma's dream and which is reality, so I will sort it out by my own understanding. About Wei Ma Wei Ma was originally the idol singer of the three-person girl group Charm. In order to develop better, she flew solo and became an actor. At first, Wei Ma could only play a small role. There was only one line in the play. At the request of her male agent, the screenwriter agreed to modify the script to add Wei Ma's part, but the added part was actually a part of QB, although not Ma was reluctant. The so-called "dedicated to art" can only perform according to the script. On the other hand, the new song of Charm without Wei Ma has been on the charts and flourished, and it has dealt a big blow to Wei Ma, who has not made much progress in the entertainment industry. After that, the agent arranged a photo shoot plan for her, and the photographer was indeed notorious. Although Wei Ma was very reluctant, she felt that she had chosen the path she wanted to go on firmly, so she could only endure the humiliation and took off her clothes. Fame". Although this has brought more attention, Wei Ma has been under more pressure invisibly, so that she has nightmares every day, and she is worried all day long. Her occasional hallucinations distracted her during the performance, but the lifelike images also allowed her to play incisively and vividly in the play, which was greatly appreciated by the crew; only she knew that she was between reality and illusion. Not true or false. It was not until Wei Ma found out that her female agent Liu Mei was pretending to be Wei Ma and wanted to kill her, she discovered that many of the hallucinations were real, and her agent Liu Mei was sent in because of a split personality. Hospital treatment. Wei Ma is unique in her acting career, but in the last scene, when she smiled weirdly at the mirror in the car, she seemed to add suspense to the ending... Is this Wei Ma the real and the original Wei Ma? Before talking about the main line of the heroine Wei Ma, now let’s talk about some important people around Wei Ma. A fanatical fan of the horse face. The man with the strange horse face didn't tell the audience his real name from beginning to end. The first time I appeared on the stage, I was like a hero-applied to prevent the rogue from hitting the scene during Wei Ma’s curtain call, and after that, when Wei Ma sang the last song, I kept my eyes on the scene. Staring at Wei Ma, revealing his admiration for Wei Ma as an idol singer. Since then, a very subtle foreshadowing has been laid. Later, after Wei Ma turned into an actor, this horse-faced man has always appeared in the world of Wei Ma; on the set of Wei Ma, when the TV series and photo albums of Wei Ma were released, and when others criticized Wei Ma, his figure Never been absent. Let all the audience think that this horse-faced man admires and loves Wei Ma extremely, and expresses extreme dissatisfaction with Wei Ma's transformation into an actor. And the subsequent murders also made everyone more convinced that the horse-faced man killed them because they were dissatisfied with the behavior of these people. The paradox is that when Wei Ma was performing, the horse-faced man tried to QB and killed her-is this a perverted act of revenge for Wei Ma's excessive pursuit of him? This is a doubt. When the floating shadow of Wei Ma dressed as an idol singer appeared in his home to ask for help, he completely imagined himself as Wei Ma's savior. But in the end, the poor man's death in a corner with Wei Ma's male agent seemed to overturn his previous assumptions in the last scene. Isn't he the man behind the scenes, or he never really existed? This is another big doubt. It will continue to decompose afterwards. Regarding staying in the United States-Wei Ma’s female agent stayed in the United States. This middle-aged woman with a wide-hearted body and fat seems to be the person who cares most about Wei Ma’s psychological changes, and is also Wei Ma’s trusted "confidential sister". In fact, she was skeptical about Wei Ma's transformation into an actor from the very beginning. When Wei Ma's acting career was at a trough, she would sigh: It is better for Wei Ma to be an idol singer. But because Wei Ma chose the path of an actor, she has always supported her in the United States. Teach Weima to use the computer, and keep comforting her when Weima is depressed. The impression I have always given to everyone is that they are very amiable and trustworthy friends. But in the end, he suddenly became a crazy person in the United States. Wearing Wei Ma's headgear, I imagined myself as an idol singer Wei Ma, and the hideous expression when he tried to cut the real Wei Ma was chilling. In the end, when facing the truck, he thought it was a searchlight for himself on stage. It turned out to be a patient with schizophrenia. The shock to everyone is actually reasonable. Because there is a small foreshadowing in the whole movie, I will explain it in detail later. Those other people are basically passers-by... I won't do a detailed analysis. Continue the previous analysis. After talking about the characters, let's talk about the development of the plot. The plot of the whole movie is composed of three parts-Wei Ma's real life, Wei Ma's hallucinations and the plot of the TV series in which Wei Ma starred. Because the illusion of Wei Ma comes from the real life of Wei Ma The role played by Wei Ma’s TV series Suo is very similar to her situation in life. Therefore, whether it is Wei Ma or the audience, it is difficult to find the difference between them. There is a slight difference in the TV series. The characters appearing are all unique characters in the play, but afterwards, after being confused by acting and hallucinations, the originally ambiguous relationship becomes even more muddled. First, let's talk about the real life of Wei Ma. Wei Ma transformed into an actor, and the stories she went to perform were real. At this time, she had not encountered strange things. The key to the real problem is the website in the letter-Wei Ma’s Department Store, which records Wei Ma’s daily itinerary and psychological activities, and the incident in which the male agent was sent to Wei Ma’s threatening letter to injure his arm. , Let us and Wei Ma think that there is a perverted psychology of an avid fan that is dissatisfied with Wei Ma’s transformation. So everyone began to wonder who this perverted fan was, so the horse-faced man became the suspect at everyone's request. When Wei Ma was performing in a TV series, his figure appeared on the set from time to time; when Wei Ma was out of the photo, he angrily bought all the photos; in the Charm performance, he looked at Wei with joy. Ma's Fuying was on the same stage with them; she used a computer to communicate with "Wei Ma" at home-and finally died in a dark corner with her male agent. Except for the section where he chases and kills Wei Ma, neither he nor Wei Ma have direct contact or communication. The only contact may also be the illusion of no numbness. So it is very likely that his existence is an illusion. I have seen a lot of film reviews, and many people think that he is the person Wei Ma imagined. This is not unreasonable. Then we will discuss the situation according to the situation, situation one: suppose he exists. Then he was probably the murderer who killed the three victims. First of all, he yearned for Wei Ma as an idol singer, but was very dissatisfied with her post-transformation state-he bought Wei Ma angrily. The photo can be seen. In the film, he claims to be the guardian of Wei Ma. For the screenwriters who maliciously modify the script, the photographers with bad intentions, and the male agent who wants to make Wei Ma become red, he will take his place. No hemp eradication is reasonable. Later, he may find that Wei Ma still hasn't changed the status quo, so he hates Wei Ma. He believes that the actor's Wei Ma is the culprit for hurting idol singer Wei Ma, so there will be scenes where he intends to QJ and kill Wei Ma. But the question arises: After the photographer was killed, Wei Ma found the photographer's bloody clothes in his closet. If Ma Lian men killed him, how did he put the clothes in Wei Ma's closet? He has never been in contact with Wei Ma before. Besides, as a fan who admires Wei Ma, why should he plant Wei Ma? This can It is very important evidence. In addition, in the end, why did he die with the male agent? Could it be that he committed suicide after killing the male agent? Or did the male agent fight him desperately and lose both? It is very puzzling here. The above points seem to be somewhat insufficient in persuasive views of his real existence. Situation 2: Assume that he is fictitious. Then the fictitious thing must be supported by the entity. Who made up him? There are nothing more than two people who are related to him in the play-Wei Ma and Liu Mei. The reason why I say it has something to do with staying in the United States is because he mentioned Ma Lian Nan when he was going to kill Wei Ma at the end—that is, Ma Lian Nan himself revealed the name when he intended to kill Wei Ma. If Ma Lian Nan was fictionalized by Liu U.S., then the things Ma Lian Nan did represent what Liu U.S. wanted to do, and the person who killed those three people was also likely to stay in the U.S. To stay in the U.S., you must leave the blood clothes in Wei Ma. The room is also very simple, because I often go in and out of Wei Ma's house. But these things can be done by herself. To make up such a person for no reason feels superfluous, and there is a doubt here. Wei Ma had already appeared at the same time as Ma Lian Nan in the initial farewell performance. If Ma Lian Nan is a fictional piece by Wei Ma, then she is probably pinning her desire to be an idol singer on this person. , Believes that some people have been opposed to her acting career, so that she remains vigilant when her acting career develops. Ma Liannan intends to QJ her and kill her. It is also very likely that she hopes that someone will come and let the current actor Wei An disappear. Only Wei Ma knew the name that Ma Lian Nan claimed to be, but he also mentioned it when he stayed in the United States to kill Wei Ma. How did Liumei know his name? It seems that no matter how you analyze it, there are always contradictions. I personally think that he may actually be a symbolic meaning. When almost everyone disagrees with one thing but is cold-eyed, you always expect such a person to object to it, and the horse-faced man is just the one who is given this kind of hope. His appearance is a symbol of Wei Ma's inner contradiction, a symbol of dissatisfaction with unspoken rules, and contempt for those who use unspoken rules to profit. As for why he is portrayed as such a person with extremely ugly appearance, this may be because the director has other intentions. Although he is a mystery, it is still not the main mystery. After that, there will be a discussion on two people who have complicated psychology in the United States and Wei Ma. Now let’s look at the personality of Liumei and Weima. Because the number of appearances in the United States is very limited, so let's start with her. Liu's appearance in the United States looks like a split personality-two eyes are particularly separated. But at the beginning, she stayed in the United States as the female agent of Wei Ma, but she was a thoughtful image of the individual, and she could be clearly felt in the play. Suspicion of Wei Ma's change to the path of acting. Every time Wei Ma’s male agent is desperately trying to gain popularity for Wei Ma’s acting career, she always says, “It’s better to be an idol singer.” And there is a small reminder in the play, yes When she and her male agent talked about the transformation of Wei Ma, the male agent reminded her that there was no way out to be an idol singer, and also pointed to the fact that Liu Mei had also been an idol singer. Then staying in the United States was speechless. Although I have only taken it lightly like a chat, it is a connection point. Why would I think of myself as Wei Ma and make crazy moves after studying in the United States is connected with Wei Ma's transformation into an actor-at least not so abruptly NS. Because the split of personality must have incentives besides congenital, just like Nina in "Black Swan" split personality because she is too pursuing perfection and splitting herself into an imaginary enemy. Because my idol singer career in the United States ended up as Wei Ma’s agent without any illness, I saw his own shadow in Wei Ma’s body, and therefore cared about Wei Ma. This explanation may be reasonable. After that, Wei Ma turned into an actor but did not achieve much success. It made Liu Mei believe that Wei Ma was better when he was an idol singer. But Wei Ma has become an actor and she has no intention of changing. Therefore, she will have the idea of ​​"Since you can't do it by yourself, then let me do it" when she stays in the United States, so she will get Wei Ma's headgear. When I looked in the mirror, I thought I was not numb. As for those floating shadows of Wei Ma wearing idol singer costumes, I personally don't think they are studying in the United States. Because first, the floating shadow can only be seen by Wei Ma, and it is illusory, and it has been floating in the air; second, although Liu Mei imagines herself as Wei Ma, she is still in that body, the mediocre looking beauty stays forever. It will not become a figure that is not numb. After staying in the United States, she was no longer satisfied with being another Wei Ma, but completely regarded herself as the real Wei Ma, and she believed that the real Wei Ma was the idol singer Wei Ma, rather than the present one acting in a suspense drama and filming. Wei Ma with an explicit portrait. And this Wei Ma is the main cause of the disappearance of the idol singer Wei Ma, so there is only one way to make the original idol singer Wei Ma reappear-to eliminate the current actor Wei Ma. So there was the scene in the back where she was chasing Weihe in the street with her headgear, and then when she saw her original face in the mirror, she found that her original cute face had become the face of an ugly middle-aged woman. , Greatly stimulated. But when she put on the mask again, she entered the role of idol singer Wei Ma, using truck lights as stage lights, and enjoying the most glorious moments of death. Moment... But reality was pulled back again-Wei An rescued her and sent her to the hospital for treatment. In the hospital, she saw that herself in the mirror was still unanaesthetized, which showed that she was a split personality and the mirror was a symbol. Mirrors can give people hallucinations, but at the same time they reflect the true self, just like Liu Mei dressed up as she was not numb, and when she was interrogated, she looked like a girl’s slender body, reflected in the mirror. But it is a fat and oily woman with aggressive and hideous appearance, and the mirror that Wei Ma saw during her escape is not necessarily a real mirror, but it means that Wei Ma saw her true self, while Liu Mei saw it. She is also the real herself-it's just that she doesn't want to accept this appearance of herself. And I think the diary in Wei Ma's department should be written by Liu in the United States. Because first of all, Wei Ma does not know how to use a computer, so it is more difficult to write these things, but she also teaches Wei Ma how to use a computer in the American Association. Moreover, she and Wei Ma often communicate with each other, going in and out of her home, and Wei Ma trusts her so that he will tell Liu Mei her thoughts, so Liu Mei's understanding of Wei Ma's whereabouts and psychological activities is reasonable. The mental activity of Wei An is not so simple. Now is the psychological analysis of Wei Ma. In fact, the main line of Wei Ma is still very clear, and her whole psychological process and life state are completely presented in front of the audience, so she will not be as suspicious as the previous characters. But the more such a character, the more doubtful it is. In fact, I just see, Wei Ma is not really a split personality. At the beginning, she behaved normally during the transition-because she was about to leave the charm, she would be unwilling to give up; she was very nervous when she was filming a TV series for the first time. ; Doing what I don’t want to do for my career is very contradictory; I find that my life after transformation is not as good as I was an idol singer before. I am very frustrated; I am afraid of finding someone to follow me... Everything is a normal person. Normal mental activity. The reason she was hallucinating was because of the weird things happening around her. It’s as if your life was very ordinary, suddenly someone you don’t know appears to follow you, and some people related to you are in trouble, then of course you will doubt if others are targeting yourself, but here Under this kind of extreme mental stress, you will definitely lose your mind from time to time or treat your dreams as reality. Many people think that Wei Ma is a split personality because she has another clone. In fact, this is at best a shadow of her true psychology, but the movie presents her in front of the audience. And that shadow is actually Wei Ma’s true psychology-being an actor is not good at all, in fact I just want to sing and be a little idol singer. And this shadow always jumped happily in front of Wei Ma to ridicule Wei Ma. In fact, in Wei Ma's heart, she laughed at her current life for not being controlled by her. Because this shadow will only appear every time when Wei's psychology begins to waver. In fact, everyone is a contradiction, just hiding in the heart and not showing it. Especially when faced with opposition from many people around, this sense of contradiction becomes even stronger. Perhaps Wei Ma hopes that she can be this shadow, able to do what she wants freely without being bound by others, and not bound by real life. However, she tried very hard to escape from the real herself, otherwise she would not have such a big fear when her real shadow appeared, or even chase it all over the street; and when she saw the website "Wen Ma’s Department Store" wrote She was actually not really scared at first, she was just worried about being followed. What really shocked her was when she discovered that others had seen her true thoughts and made them public. That's why the anxiety caused by this caused her to fall into the mystery of dreams and reality. And there are several other shots that I think are showing her escape from the real herself: First, when she went home after filming the QJ scene and found that all the fish she raised were dead, she immediately fell on the bed in pain and said, " There is no other way." Such words. In fact, under normal circumstances, people will think that it may be a problem with water quality or the end of the fish’s life, but Wei Ma immediately regarded it as a kind of revenge for her behavior. In fact, her true thoughts are-- Even God would punish me like this, so it was totally wrong for me to change to being an actor. But she didn't want to admit her own thoughts, so she could only use reality as a reason to block her true thoughts back. Secondly, her psychological monologue when she was locked in a room by herself before the explicit photo. If she really wanted to shoot such a photo in her heart, she wouldn't have so much entanglement, because she was unwilling to do it in her real thoughts, she would desperately imply that she had decided to become an actor and made sacrifices. It should be. It can be seen that she wants to hide her inner anxiety. In fact, the whole drama is an analysis of Wei Ma's inner heart, because it does not describe the psychology of people other than Wei Ma; if you remove the clips of Wei Ma's inner activities, you will find that her life is still very plain and ordinary. Because she has two different concepts in her heart that are contending, some dark and terrifying images appear. In fact, it is not that terrible in reality. For example, the man who played QJ Wei Ma in the play said to her "Really I’m sorry.” After Wei Ma debuted and became an actor, those fans were still paying attention to her movements, although the praises and criticisms were mixed; there was a concern Her inner thought agent encouraged her... But Wei Ma's inner heart negatively thought that because she had filmed a QJ scene and took an explicit portrait, she lost her original perfect idol image. People around her would definitely laugh at her. Others She must be regarded as a bitch. Someone must have expressed dissatisfaction with her and intended to retaliate against her or even kill her. Therefore, under strong psychological pressure, she gradually began to split her heart-an innocent Wei Ma who only wanted to be an idol singer and a single-minded one. The unscrupulous Wei Ma involved in the show business circle, and when she hinted that the Wei Ma who intended to step into the show business world was the one that she wanted to be, the innocent Wei Ma who was originally her turned into a villain—— An enemy that hindered her career breakthrough. Therefore, I think that the horse-faced man who later intended to rape her may be just a conjecture of her, because she desperately needs an external factor to shirk her behavior. In fact, the TV series she acted in were not confused between reality and dreams, but because they were scattered in different segments of the movie, they looked messy. In fact, they were only used to confuse the audiovisual and make the whole drama more clouded and foggy. . The TV series is actually a suspenseful film about the character of Wei Ma's character changed after experiencing QJ and mistakenly regarded himself as her sister to kill others. It was just because it was so similar to what Wei Ma experienced, which made Wei Ma think this. It is a psychological portrayal of herself, as if every time she feels that she has really done something and the people she sees, it ends up being an actor and plot in a TV series. All these psychological changes can only be seen by Wei Ma and the audience. Other people can’t see any abnormality in Wei Ma. It’s as if you are struggling and feeling painful, but what other people see you is actually normal. You too. In addition, there is a ubiquitous detail in the play-glass and mirrors. Every time Wei Ma starts to have a fantasy, she will always be stunned when she sees the reflection of herself, as if reminding Wei Ma, who is in self-illusion, to see herself clearly, not to be confused by what she sees, and not to lose herself. . It was every time Wei Ma had to be swallowed by the black hole she had set up, the mirror pulled her back to reality fiercely-Wei Ma was actually that Wei Ma. Therefore, in the final part of the movie, she sat back in the car, looked at the mirror and smiled and said, "I’m real." This sentence may not be because of her other personality, but that she is now herself. She has been able to face her true self directly, so it is unclear whether she is the innocent Weima or the slightly evil Weima. This kind of open ending may always have N different results. The question of whether Wei Ma really returns to normal is the same as the question of whether Leonardo is really crazy or pretending to be crazy in "The Confined Island". There is never a correct answer. This is perhaps the greatest charm that suspense movies bring to us-when all the clues are clear, the truth is right in front of you, a small change makes the logical pyramid you built before suddenly collapse, and you can't help but reshape the logical structure. I admire the depth of skill of the screenwriter and director.

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  • Lillian 2022-03-23 09:02:15

    Is this movie unmarked? One of the scariest animations I've ever seen! In a completely unexpected ending, Ugly Ogata is not the villain, but the heroine's secretary is the one who is really mad!

  • Bonita 2021-12-31 08:02:55

    Highly realistic and frightening!

Perfect Blue quotes

  • Mima's Ghost: Let's end all of this. We don't need two Mimas now, do we?

    Mima Kirigoe: I am Mima!

    Mima's Ghost: [laughter] That's funny. Mima is a pop idol... and you're just a dirty old imposter

    Mima Kirigoe: You're the imposter! I'm not gonna take this anymore!

  • [Last line]

    Mima Kirigoe: No, I'm the real thing.

    [smiles]