It's an old movie, but no one seems to have mentioned this yet. At the end of the movie, Mima takes off her sunglasses and says "No, I'm real", and the voice is Rumi's.
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The main line of the plot is actually very simple, that is, Rumi has a split personality, imagined that he is Mima, killed four people, and tried to kill Mima.
The reason why it is puzzling and controversial is because of the complex structure, see the figure below:
The above figure is detailed as follows:
1. The whole film can be divided into 5 main characters (red is real, blue is virtual) ; among them, the blue Yoko, although the virtual character of Double Bind in the play, also has its own story line.
Key points: The film has a total of 4 stories (placed in the four corners of the picture above); it is not just from Mima's perspective, but alternately shows the inner world of the four characters in the corners.
But the protagonist is Mima. When the narrative angle is switched, there is no prompt, so the audience is misled (thinking that it is still Mima's perspective).
2. The world in the eyes of all the characters in the picture above is related to Mima and is represented by Mima's face; it is more misleading.
3. Reality vs drama within drama. Because the play Double Bind in the play is exactly a story of a schizophrenic and a serial killer due to humiliation. The logic is similar to the real story. The director switches shots between the two, and even borrows the play in the play to express the truth. , making it hard to tell the truth. This is broken down as follows:
Red ellipse meaning:
Rumi's inner logic is the same as that of the virtual character Yoko (same illness due to Qu, same split personality, same serial killer) Rumi's real events are partly expressed through Yoko, which is [realistic with fiction];
At the same time, the intention is to show the killing process of Rumi, but in fact, it is to show the killing of Yoko in the play, so as to successfully lead to the development and ending of Yoko in the play.
Moreover, this can imply the effort and depth of the actor Mima's performance (acting is like reality), and then powerfully explains how Mima's emotions are affected by the play in the play, blurring reality and fiction. citation] (this will be further explained in Figure 9-14)
Finally, because of this combination of virtual and real performance, it not only greatly increases the appeal and mystery, but also confuses the audience.
Four birds with one stone, and all this is perfectly presented by switching a few shots:
【Who killed the photographer? 】
Figure 4: When the murderer is disguised as a Pissa dealer, the facial features are not clear.
Figure 5: When the murder reaches the point of passion, it is obvious that the body of the fat Rumi is visible.
(Note: The photographer was watching the video data of Yoko's murder when he took the Pizza; the background is Yoko's murder)
Figure 6: When the close-up micro-expression is pulled, it turns into a face that looks like Mima.
This is one of the most confusing places for the audience! It is Mima who makes people think that the split personality is Mima, and the murderer is Mima! !
But watch out! : It's not Mima, it's Yoko! ! ! ! This micro-expression is the shooting scene of Double Bind in the play! This dress is the costume of Yoko in the play , not the personal dress of the real Mima! See below for comparison:
However, while the Yoko killing is shown, the flashback is the nude photography of the real Mima;
This implies that when Rumi murdered, the motive was Mima's humiliation when she was naked, and she thought she was Mima to kill (see also Figure 18);
It also implies that when Mima performs Yoko, she is substituting/venting her private emotions
(This not only explains why she is so successful because of her real feelings, but also shows her mild schizophrenia caused by repressing her true thoughts, which will be more explicit below)
How exquisite! How watertight and no trace! As an audience, when I saw this scene, I couldn't help but be strongly affected by the emotions of Rumi and Mima, and instantly realized their situation and mood. To explain Director Bai's expressive power in just a few frames, it takes so many stinky and long sentences!
Blue oval meaning:
Mima suffers from stress and has a vision of singer Mima;
Mima is too devoted to the performance, substituting the psychology of the character Yoko into reality, and it is difficult to distinguish between reality and reality (Yoko does not argue between reality and reality);
Mima is deliberately guided by Rumi (the website Mima's Diary and the cottage that imitates Mima), making it more difficult to distinguish between reality and reality.
However, Mima did not develop a dual personality! She just doesn't understand why there seem to be two Mima's, and worries that the avatar Mima will move out of her control, but doesn't actually incarnate as another Mima.
【One Minute Realism? 】
In one of the theme sentences of the whole play, "There is no way illusions can come to life." Here, NG was made twice. Figure 9-12 intercepts the second NG. It can be speculated that Mima expressed the same psychological dilemma to Rumi as Yoko in reality, so much so that she accidentally called out Rumi's name during the performance.
The above snippet is justified by the following figure:
Some people think that only Figure 13 is the real part of the whole play, and the rest are all Mima's ravings, which obviously underestimates the director's meticulousness and talent. Figure 14 is real (that is, everyone sees the actor's lines as "I'ma model" instead of "I'm an actress"), and Figure 13 is Mima's mental activity performing Yoko (that is, everyone does not see it), In other words, Mima is substituting personal emotions in her performance. There are three evidences:
One is that when a scene is played twice, reality is off-camera. This is also used in the plot of Mima's participation in the second episode, see Figure 15;
Second, when Mima can't distinguish between private thoughts and actor's character thoughts, it is also used in "twice NG";
The third is to express the stories of real people with the help of the story of Double Bind in the play, which is also used in the murder scene of Rumi Pizza.
In short, if the director wants to tell you what is false, there must be clear evidence, and it will not be an isolated case. Only third-rate directors will arbitrarily delegate power to the audience, but if there is no explanation, they will use a panacea "fantasy" to prevaricate, unless the director is a stream of consciousness and is not ready to complete the story at all. Children's boots with too big brain holes, watch the drama well, and the control is with the talented director.
Because Mima fell into the role so deeply, and even after the drama was finished, she still didn't get back to her senses.
However, she only has schizophrenia, and did not develop a dual personality, only Rumi has a dual personality. The two reiterations in the picture below show that Mima clearly understands that she is Mima.
In the end, the image of singer Mima shown by Rumi chasing Mima is from Rumi's perspective, not Mima's. In Mima's eyes, it should be clear that it was Rumi who was chasing her, not the phantom second Mima. This is evident from her many reflections.
Because the singer Mima was always an illusion of the real Mima before, you can't imagine that the perspective has been secretly changed here! Yes, the director is so bold!
The following picture is the second sentence of the central sentence of the whole play:
The logic of Doulbe Bind in the play is:
A thinks he is B, and B prevents A from becoming B (A thinks B is a fake B, and he is the real B), so he kills B, and then thinks he has become B. A's illusion has B to possess, so the illusion can kill.
This is exactly the same logic that Rumi kills.
But Mima didn't have someone to possess, so her vision didn't come true, she didn't kill.
So the central sentence is two sentences, and Mima and Rumi each take half a sentence. (This core central sentence was copied by Black Swan, not just the expression skills)
Blood Clothes in Mima's House
If Rumi was the one who killed, why is there a blood coat in Mima's house?
Of course, it can be understood that Rumi secretly hid the blood clothes in Mima's house, but this explanation is not very logical: if Rumi deliberately did this to confuse Mima (to make Mima think that it was really killing people and not just acting, it would be more psychologically confused) ), which shows that Rumi is very clear about what he is doing. But in fact, Rumi is not sober, she really thought she was Mima's when she killed.
I boldly speculate that Mima is not in her room at this time! It's a fake room set up in Rumi!
The evidence is the difference in the door locks, which are compared as follows:
When I saw the beginning, I was very surprised by the director's meticulousness. Generally, film and television dramas are closed, that is, they can be brought to the door, but the director even specially drew the action of "anti-lock"?
Lenovo said in an interview with the director: Unlike live-action movies, every scene in a cartoon is intentional. If there is no intention, it will not be drawn.
Perfectly seamless isn't it!
In the episode 1 of Blood Clothes, you can also see the shopping photos that appeared on the Mima's Diary website, which are actually old photos of Mima, and Rumi who actually went to FGG for shopping that day. The comparison is as follows:
The director went out of his way to close up the shopping bags on the website twice (Figures 22-23), showing two photos!
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Summary: The director wants to shoot Rumi to kill, but misleads Mima or Me-Mania to kill. However, this kind of misdirection is not the kind of pretty "misleading for the sake of misleading", but at the same time shows Mima's psychological state, which becomes part of emotional expression and plot development.
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I came to Perfect Blue after watching Black Swan; there are "borrows" from the core to the details; however, the structure is much simpler.
What to say, such a delicate structure and a natural sense of art, it is true that the blue is born and the blue is defeated ... ┑(￣Д ￣)┍
It’s an old movie, no one has read this comment, but I didn’t say it after reading a few articles, so I couldn’t help spending a long time drawing pictures and screenshots in excitement. Lord Jin Min, I must be in true love. Bar! ┑(￣Д ￣)┍
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