Perfect Blue

When I first watched this film years ago, I think I was too young to truly appreciate this film but I knew I was watching greatness. Perfect Blue is all about watching. It is about idol culture - voyeuristically watching through a camera lens, stalking, creating fantasies entire of themselves. It is about how people conceive of themselves - watching themselves in mirrors, watching others achieve their dreams. It is about how people look onto reality - watching as a passive observer as life seems to move on in spite of them.  And we the viewers watch Perfect Blue with some sort of voyeurism ourselves as both Mima and us lose our handholds on reality, into fantasies, into film, and into fiction.  I cannot stress how incredible Perfect Blue is - there is a reason why this film is so influential.