Perfect Blue

Does the performer control the audience, or does the audience control the performer? Or do the producers control both? Just as Mima's stalker (and many idol fans in real life) can't discern reality and the performance, the film intentionally blurs the line between in-world fiction and reality. Is a murdered woman lying in a pool of blood real or a scene from someone's favorite crime drama? Is Mima being harassed by a stranger on the street or is it just another TV series? Are Mima's tears real or a performance for the camera? The world ignores the stalker and the agency ignores Mima's wants and needs. They're both trapped in their lives and the stalker uses Mima as an escape while Mima is digging herself a deeper hole with no solace from her career. Even her home feels like a prison. Mima (and Rumi) chases an image of Mima that's now impossible to reclaim and holds all her value in this persona because she lacks any real interpersonal relationships. The small computer screen becomes all enveloping until celebrity, fan, fiction, reality, stalker, agency, abuser, and victim all become one. The corners of Mima's room literally close in around her every time she wakes up as the clutter of her room/mind grows. All these themes of celebrity worship and fandom delusion still hold true today more than ever. As film, music, and TV continue to grow in the internet age the division between audience and performers is more blurred than ever. Don't really like the depiction of the stalker being disfigured and having some form of mental disability. It's from an era where the trope was acceptable so can't entirely blame the filmmakers. But then again, he may not have even been real. Also still don't get the title, my best guess is the blue refers to the glow of a television/computer screen.