Perfect Blue

both rumi and mima are victims of the patriarchal structures that objectify and sexualise women's bodies for the male gaze.  rumi was once a pop star herself and now can't match the image of a 'ideal women' anymore which causes her to lose herself in an idealized illsusion only to fit the standards of a male industry. her obsession with mima's 'purity' is a way of trying to reclaim her own lost image. mima is going through the same process of losing her identity to the image of a woman (especially that of a popstar) imposed by the patriarchal structures of society.