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always thought "Memories" was Geum Min’s first work. After he passed away, I looked at the resume carefully and discovered that at that time he was still the art design of Otomo Katsuyo, not the supervisor. The "Perfect Blue" that I was shocked by me was his pioneering work, and he said it was One of the most successful debut works of all time is not excessive. This point has been discussed repeatedly in the more than ten years after the film’s birth, including its highly layered and never-ending story. It doesn’t need me, a third-rate film critic, to chirp. This blog mainly thinks. I'm talking about what I didn't notice and pay attention to when I was watching movies when I was in my teens. It is also the exquisiteness that only Orientals can do. .
"PB" is a highly structured movie. It is closely linked. Almost every detail has a reason. Every line of dialogue contains hints, points, and echoes. At first glance, it may seem to be nothing, but when The suspense appears step by step, and when the story gradually reaches its climax, if you reminisce about the foreshadowing before, you will be hooked. The story is exquisite and symmetrical to the extreme. Even the name "Mima" (mima in Japanese) is also in order to fit the Me-Mania (literally translated as "Fan for Me" or "My Crazy"), which is very intriguing in itself.
First of all, the film uses a very smooth montage to connect Wei Ma's farewell performance with the scene of her taking the light rail home as an ordinary person and shopping in the supermarket, which can be regarded as a simple and concise introduction to the protagonist. At the same time, the important figure Me-Mania also appeared, watching her, and from his perspective, Wei Ma seemed to dance in the palm of her hand. The meaning conveyed by this lens is nothing more than fanatical fan sentiment, and the meaning of "control" and "play" also implies the distortion of the person's psychology. Afterwards, Wei Ma was forced to escape because of the gangsters throwing beverage cans in the audience, jumping out of the "palm", and it is not difficult to see the story of the future (Wime leaving the idol singer route, leaving the fantasy of Me-Mania) Metaphor.
There was a follow-up to the episode of gangsters making trouble. When Wei Ma's actor's work was not going well, and the psychological pressure was increasing, she saw a torn newspaper clipping in the office elevator. And the content is that the gangster who took the lead in making trouble in her farewell performance was severely injured by a car hit, and the perpetrator escaped without a trace. But combined with Me-Mania's meaningful smile in the distance outside the elevator door, it is not difficult to imagine that he is the initiator (but in fact, it is also very likely to be in the United States). It also pave the way for Wei Ma to dream (?) that he was hit by a truck driven by Me-Mania when he was tracking his own phantom.
Back to the beginning of the movie: Wei Ma ended the farewell performance. When she boarded the office car and left the venue surrounded by fans, someone gave her a "love letter" and shouted, "I will always go to see Wei Ma的部屋' (meaning Wei Ma's home)!" At the same time, the camera switched, and Wei Ma, who was "off work" like an ordinary person, just used the key to open the door and go home. She suddenly remembered this sentence and couldn't help turning her head back in horror. "I will go to see your home", as if saying "I'm watching your life", and the content on the "Weima's Department Store" website is also very subtle and private, and Weima lives. Bit by bit. Of course, when we read on, we will all think that it is Me-Mania who wrote the so-called "log" on the website, but if you think about it carefully, even if it is a voyeur + stalker, it is impossible to know that in detail. The shadow of staying in the United States has now faintly emerged. , And from the beginning of this sentence, it is doomed to have a restless life without hesitation.
As an actor, Wei Ma played a role in the inter-play "Double Bind". For the first time, there were only 3 shots and a line: "Who are you?". She kept reciting these words nervously on the set, but when she actually turned on, she was interrupted by an explosion caused by an anonymous letter outside the scene. "Who are you" or "Who am I" is a key issue in the exploration of Wei Ma's psychological positioning. From the moment when she abandoned her aspirational career as a singer, she stepped into the filming scene of suspenseful TV dramas showing murder, violence, crime, and death. In a moment, she started to get lost. This is also the subtext that always existed in the plot of the following 100 minutes, but appeared early. Therefore, it’s not surprising that when Wei Ma finally saw the "Weima’s Department Store" website (seeing another Wei Ma’s home in Wei Ma’s home, it’s interesting), and was shocked to discover that so much of her life was disclosed on it. For details, when she clicked on "Today's Word" on the website and heard her own voice reciting the line "Who are you...?" from the computer and echoed in the room over and over again, she gave Wei Ma, And the depth of shock brought by the audience. Against the blood-red background, Wei Ma's confused and astonished expression is memorable.
The main line of "Rescue Wei Ma" has also begun. The iconic scene is that fans of several Cham groups that have appeared in the farewell show, walk into a comic book store while talking about "Double Bind". When they complained that the show was not good-looking and that Wei Ma had too few scenes, and sent out "Who will save Wei Ma?!", the camera was properly aimed at Me-Mania, who was hiding from the side and snickering. Next came the newspaper clippings in the elevator room mentioned earlier, reminding Wei Ma that "everyone who tries to hurt you will be removed by me", which is also a small question on "saving Wei Ma".
In the film, there are multiple images that are not numbed in various mirror or mirror-like media-light rail glass windows, computer screens, glass doors on home balconies, and so on. And her "reflection" changed for the first time, that is, after she promised to appear in the scene of being raped in the drama, she was still on the light rail going home. This time the reflection was the idol singer Wei wearing a "princess costume". Ma, and said fiercely that he never wanted to do this kind of play. The split of the soul, or Wei Ma's denial of himself, began.
By the way, Jin Min’s works have always been concise and vivid in shaping the character and mood of the characters. For example, when Wei Ma was shooting a rape scene, Tian, the manager outside the field, was nervous and a little embarrassed (he insisted and "instigated" Wei Ma to go). Being an actor) looked at Liumei, who was silent and only smoked (not an actor's opponent), and the soot from Liumei had grown to fall... the entire shooting period (by the way, it was very visually impactful) Sex, the goosebumps are coming out), the two did not exchange a word, but everything is in the middle... To
get back to the point, shooting rape scenes is undoubtedly an act of breaking the idol singer's identity. After that, Wei Ma appeared in the interview with heavy makeup and revealing clothes, which has changed a lot than before. With the finishing touch of the trio of Cham fans, "Maybe it's not numb at all." What appeared on the screen was a piece of torn paper. The camera moved up, and we found that it was Me-Mania. Dry.
Don't forget that in the ranks of "Save Wei Ma", there have always been figures in the United States. She opposes Wei Ma's giving up as a singer and transforming into an actor, and even opposes or even dislikes her going to act in a rape scene. From the following dialogue, we also know that after studying in the United States, she rarely appeared next to Wei Ma, and it was probably found that the "save" was invalid and the "protection" failed. For people who are unwilling to face reality (does reality exist in this movie?), another option after the failure of rescue is to replace the already "tainted" with another Weima. .
When I got home, the question of "who am I" reappeared, and the reflection vision also reappeared. On the website of "Wei Ma's Department House", she spoke again, saying that she is the real Wei Ma, the girl who exists as a singer. . At the same time, she also said through the mouth of Wei Ma, although she explained in a high-sounding "rape scene is only necessary to be an actor", but in fact also thinks that she is tarnished and can no longer be the one who smiles in the light and cheers. The idol of the curtain call...
As mentioned earlier, Wei Ma's lines in the drama "Double Bind" are very suggestive. When the scene of filming this TV series appeared for the third time after the rape scene, her first line of dialogue was "I don't know myself anymore!" And what we had seen before was Wei Ma taking nude photos and confronting another self again. Scenes. The more "degenerate" Wei Ma as an actor is, the farther away she will be from her other self. At this time, the idol Wei Ma, who had always existed only as a "shadow", has already embodied beside Me-Mania, requesting He "removed counterfeit goods" for himself.
The first time Wei Ma confronted another herself was when she chased that "image" in the rain. One Wei Ma ran barefoot, panting and panting corresponding to the light and agile gait of the other. The chaser was knocked down by a truck while crossing the road rashly. The driver was Me-Mania. After he promised another Wei Ma that he would "solve the counterfeit goods", this was a murder carefully planned by the two of them...
and "Crash" is really a very special way to die in this film. The hooligan who messed up Wei Ma's performance was hit by a car, and Wei Ma was hit by a car in "Dream". In the end, he stayed in the United States... especially more than that. When the huge and dazzling car lights are rushing, the effect is not the same as the eye-catching spotlight...
And after the "crash", the film's most praised "Dream in Dream" and "Play in the Play" series officially began. . The non-numb nightmare was trapped one by one, and I couldn't wake up. And "reality" and "dream" are connected together through the plot of "Double Bind" (by the way, the scene recurs in the play, and the female doctor complains that "I can dream of dreams..." It seems to imply that filming is nothing more than Is another dream). In the play, Yoko Takakura, played by Mi Ma, has a dual personality, and Mi Ma in the "reality" is also wondering "what if the suppressed other self starts walking around". The answer is given by the line of the psychiatrist in the play, "Phantom cannot kill, but if you find a basis..." The
scene smoothly switched from the TV series to the photographer who was watching the TV series and took nude photos of Wei Ma. At home, the "reliable" Wei Ma came to the door...
In the previous "Double Bind" screenwriter was killed, the murderer did not appear, but I believe that most of the audience, based on the previous foreshadowing, would think that Me-Mania did it in all likelihood. But looking closely at the screenwriter’s body, his eyes were stabbed, just like the photographer after that, and the field after that, all these men’s eyes were stabbed (the photographer was also stabbed in the crotch, it is estimated that the other two The same, but no special performance), because they all saw (or wrote, or caused her to be seen) nudes, they are all the culprits of "defiled" Weimei. If we still think that Wei Ma’s dual personality was causing the second murder, Tian Suo’s death can undoubtedly tell us that Me-Mania only tried to rape Wei Ma in the end (so he deserved to die), and everyone else was Killed in the United States.
Small details: Wei Ma saw a photo of herself going shopping in Harajuku (and she had no impression of herself) on the "Wei Ma's Department Store". The shopping bag she was holding in her hand was used after she "killed" the photographer. Here comes the bag of the criminal's blood...Have she been to Harajuku after all? Did she kill anyone? Everything is dreamlike.
The most beautiful part of the film has begun, and I really can’t take all the screenshots here. In short, there are fans who believe that the essence of the film and one of the most interesting possibilities lies in this: because if this assumption is true, then only these ten seconds of plot is the real "reality": a name A girl named Takakura Yoko has a dual personality after being raped. In order to escape the pain, she fantasizes that she is a singer + actor named Wu Yue Wei Ma. All terrible things happen in the TV series she filmed...images and entities Completely upside down, Zion became the matrix and the dream became reality. But you cannot deny that this is indeed an explanation, a cruel and evocative possibility.
Of course, with Jin Min as a person, he will not show you dreams or reality or any of them in the vernacular, so when the camera turns, it turns out that it is still shooting, and it is the last scene. "Double Bind" has finally come to an end. In the background, Wei Ma meets the actor who plays the female doctor. He still habitually calls the other person in the play "Doctor Hitomi", and "Hitomi" smiled and said, "Wake up from your dream." ". It's just that she is still early to wake up...
Throughout the story, Me-Mamia’s thunder and rain were heavy, and the only substantive "work" he did was to create "unheard rooms" (and some of the information should be provided by studying in the United States) and attempting to rape and kill. He died without hemp, but he was killed by Wei he in resistance (there are also details of eye stabbing). When Liumei found Wei Ma after the fight and brought her home, he said something very meaningful: "I want to go back to the'Wi Ma's room'." The
camera switched, Wei Ma seemed to be back home, but Soon she discovered that this was not her home, this was another Wei Ma's house, and this was the home of "Idol Singer" Wei Ma, and when the mystery was about to be revealed, the BOSS finally appeared in the United States.
At this time, we also know that Wei Ma’s manager, Tian Suo, is dead. Recalling the last sentence he said before his death, he told Liumei that Wei Ma’s next "job" was to shoot a video film...what is that stuff, hello , The vast number of houses are innocent and say they don’t know. We have every reason to believe that his work plan to allow Wei Ma to "degenerate" without restriction directly caused him to become a corpse.
In the end, the film’s clue method of death, a car crash, appeared again, and this time the car lights completely played the role of the stage spotlight. The dying Liumei extended his double in cheers, applause and light as an idol. Arm...
However, the other Wei-numb knocked her away.
This is the last climax of the whole film, and it is also the most intriguing one. It seems that Wei Ma Yide rescued the life in the United States with grievances, but at the same time she also pushed her idol Wei Ma off the stage...
So in the end, all we saw was the actor Wei Ma, who was recognized by her and was also recognized by her. An identity recognized by those around you. Wei Ma's career seems to go well, at least more popular than when he was a singer. Contrast that when she was filming "Double Bind", the onlookers didn't know who she was, and when she went to the hospital to visit the United States, the nurse could immediately name her.
However, when she says "I am real" in the mirror, will you grieve for another unnumb death? Although our sympathy has always been on this one Wei Ma.
Anyway, I will.
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I also add my personal understanding:
1. Me-Mamia was just stunned by Wei Ma, and then killed by Liumei and hid in the background.
2. Wei Ma Kan's blood clothes were put in the US, the purpose is to make Wei Ma further collapse.
3. One-minute Takakura Yoko is Mima's dream.
Because of the pressure to survive as an idol singer, Wei Ma changed her original intention to become an actor, but the path of an actor was not that simple. She was forced to take on rape scenes and take a dew-point photo. She felt very painful and pretended to be an actress. If nothing happens, on the other hand, the bands that were originally not favored have started to develop better and better, making Wei Ma doubt whether the choice of actor is correct; on the other hand, Wei Ma is indeed a hardworking actor, even if it is. Repeated practice of a line, too deep into the play and the pressure of reality, made Wei Ma be in a trance between reality and performance many times. Therefore, this minute may be Wei Ma’s dream, in which Wei Ma becomes a dream. An ordinary person Yoko who fantasizes to be an actor, while Wei Ma is just a character in Yoko's fantasy. Such a dream allows Wei Ma to temporarily escape the pressure of being an actor.
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