This movie had me completely stunned.
Coming from the weird broadcast order and the endless eight arc my expectations were extremely low. It’s not that I didn’t like the series, in fact I had an amazing time with it, but by no means did I think it was “award winning” which is why going into this movie I was shocked at its high rating. I now can say that I understand.
The act of taking such a normal anime and…
Genuinely such a disturbing movie to me. The fact that these underage high school girls can essentially become prostitutes legally and nobody bats an eye is absolutely foul. The film does an amazing job of showing what the pipeline from girl to prostitute could look like as well as showing how quickly things can escalate. It started off fairly tame but it was only a matter of days before Hiromi had some genuinely traumatizing encounters. The fact that her friends…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
It’s been a while since a film really had me feeling this way during my first watching.
Whiplash had me engrossed the entire time and when the credits rolled I was so mad that the movie was over! I love how you can see the emotion toll Fletchers abuse took on Neiman as the story goes on. I also love how interesting Fletchers character is. Fletcher’s teaching tactics are over the top and abusive, but there’s also moments where Fletcher…
By the end of this movie it had me wondering whether I was even real or not.
Perfect Blue is just such an interesting movie that I always find myself coming back to. Like End of Evangelion I find that this movie really benefits from watching it multiple times with how mind boggling it is. The movie visualizes Mima’s identity crisis in the best way possible through the culmination of stalking, the film she’s acting in, and not knowing whether…
