Perfect Blue

A brutal look into the agonizing loss of agency when your identity is stripped away and rewritten by everyone but you. A chilling representation of the female experience; the suffocating weight of the male gaze, the violent and exploitative commodification of a woman's body. Satoshi Kon has created a visceral representation of the horrors of parasocial obsession which continues to mirror the present. The way the editing is weaponized to dissolve the boundaries of reality further adds to its brilliance as a psychological horror.