Perfect Blue Review

Review of Perfect Blue (1997) by screenqueeen: 👍 4.5/5

Other than blurred identity being a clear theme here, something else I picked up on during my second time through PERFECT BLUE is how exact a depiction of anxiety/depression this becomes.

Even down to the seemingly physical disconnect between mind and body where, hours and hours later, you're caught up to the goings-on of your own external self through the words of others and the dissociation is so strong that you have no choice but to believe it because you know you simply weren't there.

Lost sleep, overlapping events of an identical nature, and a growing sense of mindful narrowness that becomes matched in your physical space as empty shopping bags, used food receptacles, bottles and such clutter your physical space to match the mental sensation of feeling stuck like on flypaper of your own devising.

It doesn't matter that it was never you, your brain is so self-centric that it must punish itself out of instinct.

"Hello, who are you?"