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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  • Grady 2022-03-24 09:02:18

    20th Anniversary Reprint. Jin Min is too powerful, not to mention how many Hollywood directors have been inspired by this film; Wei Ma in the middle and late stages went into a state of hysteria and kept waking up from layers of dreams, I just want to abandon all logic and analysis Fall with her into the abyss of destruction. Although the ending is a little abrupt and doesn't explain all the doubts, the film is already creating confusion and digging out the deepest fears in people's hearts. There should be a lot of stories to tell about being an idol in Japan, and I hope to see more

  • Orion 2021-12-31 08:02:55

    Rape scenes are understandable. Taking nude photos is definitely a failure (although it is the key to staying in the United States and going crazy). In this way, the positioning of Wei Ma's actor will be problematic. What is the strength? Or a tertiary movie star?

Perfect Blue quotes

  • Mima Kirigoe: No... no! This is not my room!

  • Kid in the audience: [when they leave the Powertrons live show] Not as well as on TV.

    Kid: No, that's not the same.