In Japanese animation in the early 1990s, although there were profound works such as Mamoru Oshii’s "Mobile Police 2: Defense of Tokyo", due to the big banner of Jeep’s Studio, the audience still stayed at the animation "for children". From the point of view of the childish work that I watched, especially the 1995 "Listen to the Ear"-a work that used the painting style of the 1980s to eat and wait to die-after it came out, angry young Japanese animators took the scene: " Japanese animation cannot go on like this." Oshii Mamoru created "Ghost in the Shell" and Anno Hideaki created-EVA-Human Replenishment Project. Ryutaro Nakamura and Abe Yoshitoshi were released in "The Matrix" a year ago. after more than come up with "the Matrix" cooler and more adorable and more advanced "lain", Kon busy at the "memories trilogy" of plays and art do their own set of "Perfect Blue"
Satoshi Kon in his On his official website, he wrote a 10,000-character "Perfect Blue" production diary under the name of Battle Blue. For him, this is indeed a battle, and it is a double battle: a game against time-making an animation from scratch in one year , And the audience game-how to deceive the audience.
The principle of "audience eager to be deceived" applies to any film and television work. If you are not fooled by the director when you watch it, you can watch the fire from the other side of the movie instead of entering the scene. This is obviously the director's failure. Jin Min used the method of deceiving the audience to the extreme in his first directed film, including montage editing, the intersection of dream and reality, hypnosis, violent performance, sexual suggestion, and so on. There are three results:
one is to completely crush the decadent view that "animation is a childish work for children". "Perfect Blue" has become a rare suspense masterpiece that does not lose to a live-action film. Japanese amazon five-star reviews used the sentence "the first director has such a strong impact" to describe this film, and due to the violent performance and sex For implied reasons, the film is classified as R-rated in the United States (viewers under the age of 17 need to be accompanied by a guardian to watch) movies, and it has become an out-and-out adult animation.
The second is that all the films after Jin Min have become the continuation of "Perfect Blue". After deceiving the audience without any tricks, Jin Min has worked hard on the plot, pictures, humanistic care and philosophical ideas, and has also made outstanding achievements. .
The third is that while being deceived, some viewers were defeated by the film's little skills and couldn't understand the film. In fact, this movie was watched in 2008, and it shouldn't be a problem for Chinese audiences who have experienced The Matrix. If you don’t understand it after watching it twice, you should watch an episode of "Detective Conan" first.
If you want to find a shortcoming for this movie, it can only be that the DVD released in 1998 is simply regrettable. There was no interview and no director commented on the soundtrack. However, on the tenth anniversary, we ushered in the Blu-ray of this movie. DVD, repaired high-definition picture and 157 minutes of massive tidbits, I believe Jin Min will sigh after seeing it, ah, what he made that year was awesome. If you have never watched this movie, now is the best time for you to make up for this regret. If you have enough wallets, if you are still curious about animated movies, if your brain cells have not been swallowed by mentally retarded movies, you You will see a good movie that can dry your brain cells-this is the treasure left to us by the angry young Japanese animators of that era.
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