Perfect Blue

A movie best experienced alone, in your room, late at night but it’s cool in a theater too. I love the paranoia and confusion in this movie. I think I spent more of my first couple watches trying to figure it out instead of just leaning into the nightmarish aspects of it. The animation is stunning but also grotesque and stomach churning. The score is haunting and heart pounding. It’s so eerie and then randomly hits you with these blissful little pop tunes. Couldn’t help but think about Stan Twitter a little bit while watching it this time. Mostly in the form of the loser freaks that are obsessed with Mima and how there’s so much weird in fighting among fans and their general delusions. In that way, it was far ahead of its time.