Perfect Blue 25th Anniversary Film Review
So the Alamo Drafthouse theaters put Perfect Blue back in theaters for a special 25th anniversary watch party. Perfect Blue is one of the most famous anime movies of the nerd community. You may have seen gifs of it's most iconic shots in slowed and reverb music videos or in general use on social media. Now, I've seen them in context. I've watched Satoshi Kon's other famous movie, Paprika , years ago. Paprika was very weird and surreal, but I didn't really like it that much. Still, that didn't deter me from wanting to see Perfect Blue as others on the internet suggested I might like it better and I ultimately did. Being a film from 1997 Perfect Blue is draped in 90s aesthetics with its animation, fashion, and dial up internet. The film was also meant for theaters. Although it's an animated film it's shot like a live-action film at times with zoomed out edits like one that centers on a character in the bedroom and pans out overlooking the city and...