Comments on: Perfect Blue Excuse me who are you?

By: land of the banned

land of the banned — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:50:37 +0000

gotta say this is one of my favorite works by kon. Never have read the manga however after seeing how brilliant the movie was i will have to pick it up!.
i love how half the scenes can be interpreted by the viewer such as the rape scene did it really happen or was it only filmed.
This movie is great as it allows the viewer to have to distinguish fact from fiction in a way similar to Mima.
10 /10

Dizzy
Land of the Banned

By: SetFree

SetFree — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:58:19 +0000

On Voyerism, they sell binoculars with built in cameras now, I”ve got one thats pretty neat.
The notion, and practice of transformation comes into play when talking about situational identities. What happens when one enters into a situation previously thought impossible, or where the events and players are no longer bound to a certain set of rules, physical psychological etc, and where one must alter the level and manner of ones interaction to fit into living “fictional” realities? People start not only changing circumstantially, but also may begin to express their “situational personas” as new physical and spiritual forms. They may even trancend dimensional limitations, and even species barriers. It all depends on what type of play it is I suppose.

By: Talmadge

Talmadge — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:26:30 +0000

That is to say, the line between fiction and reality were blurred when we started to conceptualize information 50,000 years ago. Now we have started to (if not unconsciously) realize fiction and reality have always been kissing cousins. And this realization is currently being expressed as the post-modern breakdown of identity as we move BEYOND language… *wink*wink*

Ps. For those of you keeping score, my new book has changed identity and will not be called “Yer Gonna DIE Someday, the complete Prophecy of R. Talmadge Lacy”, but rather it will be titled, “the BIG BOOK of the §E7EN §TÅR™ Corporation.” Coming out this spring.

By: Talmadge

Talmadge — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:15:48 +0000

This resonates heavily with something I wrote for the basic pamphlet of the §E7EN §TÅR™ Corporation, and I quote:

_Life-Actor_ a Person who is not tied to any one Life-Identity. Someone who recognizes “the World is a stage and we are merely players” and takes that fact to it’s logical conclusion. FACT. You “ACT” differently around your mother than your boss; Your girlfriend than your sister; Your friends than enemies; At school than at home. All these personalities (live in one person) are controlled and regulated by the part of your psyche that names itself “I” and synthesized into a single Life-Identity. Thus the ILLUSION of unity is created. Life-Actors go beyond the constructs and constrictions of “I” to willfully CREATE alternate Life-plays & Life-Identities.>>

By: KT

KT — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:01:30 +0000

If you guys liked Perfect Blue, I think you might really enjoy the TV series Satoshi Kon did, ‘Paranoia Agent’. From the themes that come up on this site again and again, I think it might be worth a look for you, as it takes ideas from Perfect Blue but goes even further with it into the culture of voyeurism, escapism and the spectacle. It’s a really interesting piece of work.