If there's ever a movie that deserved the subtitle A WOMAN IN TROUBLE, it's perfect blue.
This movie definitely scared me a lot more than it did the first time I watched it, and I think that's because I can relate now more than ever to the characters anxiety. She is constantly trying to please everyone, feels overwhelmed in her career, and shows clear signs of anxiety throughout the entire movie. Whether it's running out of the train when a sudden burst of claustrophobia hits, and of course saying yes to a rape scene that she wants more than anything not to be filming. And even beyond anxiety, the time jumps in the story can easily be explained by her dissociating, and all this combined makes this movie a heart-wrenching tragedy of watching a young girl slowly lose her mind.
That would be more than enough to make this an effective as f*** horror movie, but feeding into her delusions is an obsessed stalker. Like any good plot about someone going batshit crazy, it's hard to tell what's real, what's a hallucination, what's actually happening, what's part of a movie, and who to trust. Not only that, but it gives you multiple options for what the ending could be, I never really answers your questions making the entire movie delightfully vague.
It's a difficult movie to watch, but it's definitely moved its way from vague memory to one of my favorite animated horror movies.
9/10
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