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| Sooo much fucked up shit. Then again, thats Madhouse. I hate it when a murder goes for their victims eye first :x then the hand :x And then trying to distinguish from reality, dreaming, and screen acting. mmm love those kind of psychological anime. And the action and mystery kept going all the way to the end. Definitely 9/10 |
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| Mind blown away.. I really was not expecting something like this. (¬_¬) 10/10 |
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| i totaly love it AMAZING wow why is it not Top 10 |
MadLaneJul 22, 2014 9:58 AM
| okay that was weird but also nice, i didnt understood it at all but that is what makes it good i think lol |
| That was a total mindfuck. lool I loved how it intertwines between reality and imagination. I didn't think it was Rumi who has a split personality. After all, that bloodstained clothes in Mima's closet suggested that her "dreams" were real. 7.5/10 |
 "And if, there were so many people in the world, there had to be someone living an interesting life that wasn't ordinary. I was sure of it. Why wasn't that person me?" - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Part V [/center] |
| What I don't get is, who killed the camera guy?? It is shown that Mima was the one who did it and she wasn't around to hallucinate that, so it can't be Rumi. Was it Mima?? She dreamed that scene before it was officially reported by news channels and she even had the bloodied outfit. Pls help. |
| mind blowing movie I was on the edge of my seat *_* Satoshi Kon really awesome job R.I.P |
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| Like everyone says, this was a mind blowing movie. Although for me at the beginning it's a bit boring but gets interesting later on. I never expected her agency, Rumi would be the one mindfucking Mima. Her stalker, oh god disgusting character. Not only the animation is from 1997 - 98, he just look plain ol fucked up ugly ass character lol. Also, with all that old animation. I enjoy Mima nude scene on her photoshot for some reason. Yes, even her hairy meow ;p it was nice haha. |
| I dunno what to score this. Ive never been high in my entire life but this movie took me on the wildest trip of my life. I started blanking out during the movie and I lost track of time too. It felt like 3 hours went by but it actually was only 40 minutes. I just gotta take a breather. I feel out of it. This was awesome and super trippy but I dunno if I liked the feeling. Screw it Ima just give this an 8. It was a damn good movie, but I didnt like the trip it sent me on. |
Sol_OuSep 26, 2014 7:56 PM
| Holy shit, what an absolutely wonderful mindfuck. I love stuff like this! I'm still confused on some stuff, especially on who killed the photographer because there's a scene showing her killing the guy, and then "waking up". The murder is supposedly on her conscience, as she's rehearsing for a scene in Double Bind she imagines the actor to be the photographer who gets up from the table (with no eyes X_X). I didn't like the fact that it was all Rumi, I wanted to the movie to explicitly state that Mima was cray-cray. But alas, while I may not have liked the ending, the journey to it was AMAZING. 9/10!! |
SaveTheAralSeaOct 24, 2014 7:43 PM
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| Holy shit, excelent movie, although difficult to watch and absolutely not for everyone, kind of reminded me of Brian de Palma's Femme Fatale. Animation in general, not just Japanese anime, needs more stuff like this. I'm definitely going to watch all of Satoshi Kon's catalogue, too bad I didn't know about him when he was alive. Rating 10/10 |
CapRooneyOct 26, 2014 12:29 PM
| Mindblown! @____@ How i wish there are still anime like this nowadays. 9/10 |
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| Damn I just finished watching this and Ive got to say, this is one of the best psychological movies,not just in anime that I have ever seen. The story is so incredibly well written as well as the amazing animation that it should stand as a landmark in animation and cinematography for its brilliance. Its a 10/10 for me because it was.......perfect. |
| I've been here way too long... |
| I thought I was getting it, up until the point when the woman with long hair talks about dissociative identity disorder. At that point, I went: "what the fuck? This is incredible". Then, 3 seconds later, they showed that scene through a tv screen, and my mind basically exploded. From then on, I was completely lost. I knew it was going to end up like this, I'll just have to rewatch it eventually. Still, what the actual fuck?!?!?!? This rivals Lain in my "2deep4me" category. |
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stAtic91 said: Oh gawd, this was so mindfuckingly (wat?) awesome. The story got a bit confusing with all the changes between reality and imagination, but I think I figured most of it out towards the end. Watching this made me really sad that Kon Satoshi has passed away... so true, most of his films are confusing and just everywhere for ex. paprika. :-) I LOVED tokyo grandfathers! You guys have to watch it if you haven't!   |
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| 3deep5me, need to rewatch. Oh by the way, about the rape scene. Did they really have sex when shooting that scene? Don't they usually use doubles for that kind of scenes, or use some tricks to shoot it? I'm asking this because she seemed to be really traumatized after that. |
silmarilDec 19, 2014 5:57 AM
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silmaril said: 3deep5me, need to rewatch. Oh by the way, about the rape scene. Did they really have sex when shooting that scene? Don't they usually use doubles for that kind of scenes, or use some tricks to shoot it? I'm asking this because she seemed to be really traumatized after that. It was simulated, but it still affected her mentally. There was a scene afterwards where she says (to herself) "of course I didn't want to do it". I guess they didn't use a double because they wanted to push her fame, as she was only getting one or two lines every three episodes or something like that. |
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| Intense film is intense. Kon-sensei's style is all over the place in this 80-minute disorientated piece of classic, and his familiar dream-in-a-dream-in-a-dream scenarios around the place. This is my first Kon anime, and I have to say - as a fan of the psychological thriller genre, this work is outstanding. Although, there were moments in which the film lose its edge towards the end, risking convolution, but it managed to pack up in the end. 9/10 |
| "If you reject me, I'll blast a hole in you!" Kanzaki H. Aria Just kidding.  |
| Mindfvck is real! This somehow reminds me of the movie Black Swan. 10/10 |
| "Having someone saying you're okay as you are and being needed by that person... It was nice to have someone like that..." — Taiga Aisaka |
| Very good movie and I really didn't expect that outcome. It was the kind of story where it kept throwing twists at you right when you thought that you finally grasped it all. Although I understand most of the overall picture, understanding some of the scenes separately is tougher. The main ones being: - The part where Glam was performing at the mall and suddenly a seemingly ghost-ish figure of Mima joined the song, what was really happening there? It couldn't have been the real Mima and if it was Rumi then wouldn't that have raised an alarm with everyone about her mental health? The audience reacted though and the two idol members looked troubled, so I'm inclined to believe something happened in any case. - The scenes with Mima talking to a ghost figure of herself. Was she crazy as well? Did she get drugged? - My biggest blur moment was the continuous waking up from dreams. Not sure what to make of that. It wasn't a 'dream within a dream within a... etc.' case, since the room was filled with more junk every time she woke up, so days were passing. Other than that it was really strange to me. - After Mima knocked out/killed and walked over to him, she suddenly saw the crew of the movie giving her an applause. Why? Obviously it was fantasy, but I don't get why she suddenly got that vision. Was it a deja vu moment she got because it resembled a scene from the movie? Also not sure during which time frame Rumi moved the bodies of her colleague and the stalker. - At the end of the movie, Mima said that the apartment wasn't her room. I assume that she was brought to a replicated room based on her own place? |
Nuky93Jan 4, 2015 3:56 PM
ermu said: Mindfvck is real! This somehow reminds me of the movie Black Swan. 10/10 The director of Black Swan is a big fan of Satoshi Kon, and even ripped off the 'screaming under the water in the bath' scene for his film Requiem For A Dream. |
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| Wow that was mindblowing! I watched Paprika before this and gotta say i kinda understand this movie more than Paprika. Still a bit confused particularly the drama scenes. Not sure about this but it's like the story of the drama is similar to what's happening with Mima and i can't tell anymore which is real or not. Ugh.. |
| quasimodo on acid and a girl who was tripping harder than me watching that film, cool. |
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| All I can say is that PERFECT BLUE IS MY FAVE ANIME OF ALL TIME... It was perfect, and is my #1 even if it is a movie. |
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| Definitely in my top 3 movies, such an amazing watch. |
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| Mindfuck on another level |
| Wow, good job drawing the viewer into the same confusion as the protagonist. Psychological Thriller Anime 10/10 o-o |
Toxic_MongooseMar 9, 2015 7:54 PM
| Wow i'm speechless right now. The story and the directing are both awesome. Like the name suggests it is a perfect movie. |
HazukashiiSensei said: Mindfuck on another level ^ That's all I could say about this movie. |
| if someone already answered this, sorry. i didn't feel like sorting through 3 pages of posts. for those of you confused about the scene with the detectives, that was part of the tv show, i believe. the director even says cut at the end of it. the "doctor" is even playing a doctor in the scene. they show a take of it being rewound right after... what made it confusing was them saying, "she believes she is an actress/mima." maybe it's just a nudge to the fact the actress is being played by the REAL Mima. I DUNNO o_O also, someone (i forgot to quote it) explained rumi being able to jump off the building as it being from her point of view. like, what rumi imagined herself to be. doesn't explain what mima sees when we know rumi isn't there, but i like the idea. |
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| My mind has been thoroughly fucked. |
Shape430Apr 16, 2015 4:11 PM
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| One of the best animated movies I've ever seen. |
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| Lot's of purposefully confusing stuff, but admittedly a thrilling ride. 7/10 |
| "Let Justice Be Done!" My Theme Fight again, fight again for justice! |
| That was incredibly good...and incredibly depressing. |
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| i went into this blind and i gotta say... that was amazing |
| A good movie, 7/10 I personally like these kind of theme : Dementia and psychological. Though confusing, well that is not the point. It is intentionally made to confuse because that is the thing our main character perceives, and the perception is really confusing. That's why it is confusing. Yeah, obscene and confusing. But atleast at the end we knew that she understand her identity. |
| That was an absolutely thrilling experience. The way that it perfectly blended her movie persona, singer persona, and real life persona into a psychological breakdown of extreme depth was just jaw-dropping. Her psychological development was among the best I've seen in this medium. I really liked how there was the double meaning of her trying to fight off her singer image and become a new person while her singer image was trying to bring her back but she knew she could never be that again. Her delving into the depths of despair and a hellish world in which the fabric of reality nightmare's lines were blurred and her full recovery into a normal person at the end was just breath taking. I am just kicking myself right now for not watching this a long time ago and putting it off for so long. Oh my this was a true masterpiece. |
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| Great! What a surprise in the end! I was actually believing that Mima was going crazy and actually killed the guys. 9/10 |
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| That was great i was constantly questioning what was real 8/10 because bit too old for my taste |
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| A 1998 film can't possibly get any better than this. The R-rated scenes were too much for me, though. But plot-wise, this is mindblowing. I could never guess how this would turn out to be. 10/10. [Except for the characters who had their eyes apart. The art of those characters just creeped me out to death and I might have to sleep with the lights on tonight.] |
| One question that bugged me throught the movie and still bothering me now. What the hell is up with that woman's eyes? |
| The 2nd half was trippy as fuck, still good though. 8/10. |
| well i had no idea what to expect but awesomeness since madhouse was introduced in the beginning! (however if i knew this was rated R i wouldn't even have tried to see it...>o>) well i kinda want to unsee but want to think about it some more. from what i understand the stalker and fattie teamed up, emailing each other, which took care of 80% of the kills. i honestly am almost convinced that the MC did the photographer and the stalker in. however there was the theory that the fattie found out the stalker failed and killed him. however that still leaves the model shots and the movie filming confusion, and her idol version hopping around on the lamps, through the crowd, etc. but who did in the 18yr old???? i think that's a red herring. he got killed by accident. the best scenes was the chase scenes, but the last one was utterly great. i could feel the terror of the MC and was disgusted by the fattie. jaw literally dropped for a good amount of seconds when she was revealed. the literal only cons there were was the nudity and of course the rape scene. i really had to look away from that. but this IS an R rated film so i guess those don't really count. since satoshi said the film is supposed to give you all these clues and have YOU put them together, there is no sense in bashing the "ploholes" (i use the term loosely) and/or ending. so it gets a 10/10. it accomplished what it was made for. satoshi basically gives you a game. "Here's the setting, with the start, middle, and ending. Some parts are missing. Want the answers? Come to them yourself." thank you so much. can't wait to see paprika! (that also felt a lot longer than an 1hr and 22mins...O_O) |
TomDayOct 24, 2015 8:20 PM
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| That was a really trippy movie at times, it was pretty good though. |
| the second half really got me breathless... I don't even know what to say 10/10 |
| what the fuck |
| Holy damn, what a mindfluff ... A lot of disturbing scenes and I was basically at the edge of my seat the entire film. This is a solid 10/10 ... what a film. |
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