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| Just finished, still have to fully process what I saw. Very unique, is one of the most unsettling films I've seen in months. Also sad to know that Satoshi Kon left us so soon. But on a lighter note, dude if Rumi-chan actually jumped off that building at the end of the movie, wouldn't she have just crashed and splatted since she's so fat? Lol. |
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| Interesting Watch. It's kinda great, even though I don't love stories that are so puzzling with some flaws of clarity to realism as a critical judger. 6/10, I think. For me, what bothers me the most is how her insanity starts somewhat too abruptly with a weak start and incredibly lacking depth to why she starts hallucinating. A Stalker with hints of following you everywhere, knowing your personality, and exploding your email as a bigger threat, to days later getting more paranoid and terrified of the stalker. With no signs of lack of sleep/insomnia, reading that website for far too long to then suddenly develop some kind of incoming split personality of the Stalker's ideal past version of her as an idol when she first sees that reflection at the metro. Maybe the novel spreads that depth with more days of that stress and paranoia to then oddly develop into hallucinations. The twist is great. With her manager Rumi and the stalker both kinda working together, and Rumi being disgusted and hurt that Mima isn't a pure idol anymore. I don't know how realistic this is in Japan, because I do know about the odd culture in purity to idols and fans not wanting them to be sexualized, let alone be seen with a boyfriend. What I mean. I don't think many ex idols turned actress change hardcore Hollywood style with the forced sex symbol work to break the past look with vulgar/r scenes, drama, or sexy nude modeling. I'm not sure how realistic that is in history with how incredibly controversial and chaotic it must be to Japan if an ex idol would do all that. Anyway. I get that Rumi was the mastermind for the most part. Killed everyone. I guess the murders were in Mami's imagination in her head after knowing the facts, as someone suggested. Funny how I guess the tv series slowly turns in sync into her reality somehow, making her delusions even worse. The trigger of her hallucinations start at the rape sense tho... That's when it gets worse with the fake best Idol Mami is more present and Mami imagines she did the murders and is even more paranoid. It's a bit odd how acting that out and kinda method like I guess she broke herself where she hallucinated worse. It's weird. But that was all (the rape scene) before the deaths. So, that "trauma" feels mostly implausible to me from what was shown for her to go insane and "start" hallucinating/etc. worse. It'd make more realistic sense if it was after the deaths or more of her insomnia and paranoia of months was shown, I think. To me, it all feels a little too fast realistically or unrealistic for the lack of depth of trauma at first. I'm not sure. Maybe the novel is more realistic, or maybe this is a glaring flaw that nobody realizes for how exaggerated it is realistically. That all really bothers me as a realist most of the time, but it was still interesting... I enjoyed it. Funny Black Swan ripped it off in some ways, I think. I almost forgot... I think Mami kept a split personality herself in the epilogue, kinda like her tv series, all in odd sync to her reality/delusions against Rumi. Kinda sucks how we don't see the aftermath of her life like that. I watched it unrated which was cool. |
waalex11Nov 30, 4:11 PM
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