The first time I saw it, I thought this way, and the second time I watched it, until it was almost over, I still thought the same way. At the end - when Chiyoko went on her key journey in a spaceship, I realized - it was still a story of split personalities.
Why do you say that? Why isn't the story revolving around the key? Why not tell the story of a girl's dream? I admit that the main line of the story is the key, which is the girl Chiyoko looking for the Prince Charming in her heart who once had the key. In order to find him, Chiyoko spent her whole life, and most of her life exists for this goal. This can only explain her persistence, how could it be a split personality? But in my opinion, her perseverance - whether in life or work, has always been the pursuit of the key is the manifestation of her split personality. And the reason why I also began to think that Chiyoko is a complete personality is in this place. However, this time I found that I overlooked a detail, no, not a detail, but a theme that has been ignored all the time - actress! Chiyoko is an actor, a very successful actor, playing countless different types of characters. And the whole film is also through the transformation of her role, constantly changing time and space, and highlighting the theme of search.
Chiyoko's success is nothing more than the success of creating characters, and to successfully create different characters, you must get into the play and forget yourself. And to achieve self-forgetfulness is to achieve the state of shaping another personality. It's just that all shaped personalities have a goal of survival - to find someone, that very important person! Because of this goal, the people created by Chiyoko gradually overlapped and staggered with their own body, and it became difficult to distinguish what is the body and what is the role. This is similar to Jin Min's first work: PERFECT BLUE. They all lost themselves in their roles.
Although, according to Chiyoko herself, she chose the career of an actor in order to find him. But which part of her pursuit can clearly distinguish between reality and plot? Even the scene at the train station, can it be said to be a realistic memory? Yuan also said that he will be moved in this place every time, so it is undoubtedly a plot.
In fact, at the end, Chiyoko expressed her own heart: her true love is the process of chasing! So, maybe there is such a young man in reality that makes her fall in love, but maybe she doesn't care whether he really exists or not since a long time ago, all she wants is the pace of chasing.
In the story, apart from her and the other actors, the only one who can travel through time and space is the white-haired witch. I think she represents the true body of that Chiyoko. She made Chiyoko drink the poison and kept searching for it in reincarnation. In fact, it means that her heart would not let herself stop, and she hoped to pursue it forever. Her appearance is accompanied by the spinning wheel, and doesn't the spinning of the spinning wheel signify this cycle? I remembered the old woman in Hell Girl who never had a road. She also had a spinning wheel. In fact, she also represented the reincarnation of life and death.
Why can't Chiyoko extricate herself? The unwilling former heroine Yooko told the truth: Chiyoko remained young through her non-stop pursuit! On the surface, Chiyoko has always maintained the mood and mentality of his youth because of his persistence in pursuing him. On the other hand, by performing different roles and shaping different roles, we can think that it was Chiyoko who made himself through such a form. Your life is forever changing and changing, which is also a form of immortality. Until the end, she has to take a spacecraft to go to a distant place, even if she can't return, that is to say, by pursuing such a conscious (and possibly unconscious) behavior pattern, she can connect different lives, that is, connect different lives. Personalities are unified. So, in the end, does that he really exist? It's actually a question mark.
Therefore, it seems that Jin Min's theme has always been split personality.
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