3 women 3 dramas

Cassandra 2022-04-23 07:02:41

Wei Ma's agent, staying in the United States: A. Not Ma: B. The role played by Mima Yoko Takakura: C

At first, A saw the shadow of himself as an idol singer in B's body, but he couldn't accept B's transformation. Created a website to monitor B 24/7 with B's ardent fans. Stop B by intimidating B into killing two of the crew by rabid fans. After failing to stop B, the personality begins to split. Finally decided to trick the rabid fans into killing B and replace him himself. Unexpectedly, the fanatical fans were counter-killed, and his own efforts ended in failure.

B began to transform into an actor, but after being criticized by people, phantoms began to appear. The filming of TV dramas was too deep into the drama, and he gradually couldn't distinguish between filming and reality. He believed that the idol singer phantom was the original self. Killed a fanatical fan in self-defense, and then split into C, deceiving himself by treating everything as a filming. In the end, I saw through A and found my true self.

C's story is basically understandable. He wanted to be the same model as his sister, but was raped. After splitting his personality, he killed his sister, skinned her, and replaced her. Then make up the other person who killed the sister, and at the same time connect the fictitious person to the people who raped him, and eventually kill those people as well.

The interweaving of the three main lines reminds me of "Inland Empire", but the difference is that David Lynch is an expressionist pictorialist, and his shooting methods are more adventurous and crazy than this film's director Jin Min. "Inland Empire" has no script and was shot by Lynch as an art film. In the permutation and combination of scenes that incorporate a large number of fragmented inspirations and thoughts, you can weave countless plausible plots. In fact, we can only roughly analyze that the stories of three women are intertwined. As for the specific timeline and the clarity of reality and illusion, it is impossible to talk about. This is also the regret that I failed to analyze the specific realistic logic of those three stories.

However, Jin Min's work has given us several directions that we can reason about (such as whether A or C smiled at the end), because no matter from which direction, we can justify the splicing of the plot's realistic logic. It's comforting, but also the style of mainstream brain-burning movies.

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  • Hadley 2022-03-20 09:02:01

    This is a work that does not involve Hiraizawa Shin (hereinafter referred to as my uncle), but my uncle is full of it. Uncle Jin Min was a selfish little fan back then, and he painted the uncle everywhere! As for the work, let’s be honest, how many neon gold ideas Hollywood copied and didn’t pay for it? In the matter of literary and artistic work, geniuses are creating, and mediocrities are copying. It's a pity no one will ever be...

  • Otto 2021-12-31 08:02:55

    Who said Jin is not bullish? Who is anxious with me?

Perfect Blue quotes

  • Tadokoro: [reviewing the script for Mima's next episode] Mima's character, Yoko Takakura, completely changes personalities when she's raped by the customers at a local strip show.

    Rumi: A RAPE scene? You have got to be out of your mind!

    Tadokoro: It's pivotal, Rumi. She's the key figure in the second half.

    Rumi: PIVOTAL? Mima is a pop idol!

  • Eri Ochiai: Illusions can't come to life.