How Perfect Blue PUNISHES the Viewer

Captain’s Log Entry 5: Today, we delve into a horror movie so confusing you need to watch it twice (but it doesn’t want you to.) Perfect Blue can be interpreted in many ways with its many themes of identity, public perception, parasocial connection, ego, etc. But what I find most interesting is how Mima is related to the female experience in the most horrifying way possible. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 The Money Shot 2:11 The Perfect Female 10:53 The Male Gaze 16:56 The Third Observer ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to my channel if you liked the video essay, and leave a comment with any thoughts or suggestions! Check out my Patreon if you feel so inclined,   / captaincatharsis   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #perfectblue #horroranime #filmanalysis #feminism #patriarchy #satoshikon #videoessay ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUSIC CREDITS: Doki Doki Literature Club - My Confession (Varient) "Garden Music" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Screen Saver Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Yume Nikki - Unlit World Nikita Kryukov · Milk Outside a Bag of Milk Outside a Bag of Milk - Thinking Xenosaga Episode III - Abel's Ark Silent Hill 4: The Room - Drops of Shame No, I’m Not Human - Day Theme Yume 2kki OST: Botanical Garden ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RESEARCH / FURTHER READING: Aoyagi, Hiroshi. Islands of Eight Million Smiles : Idol Performance and Symbolic Production in Contemporary Japan. Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005. Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. Penguin Books, 2008. Fredrickson, B.L. and Roberts, T.-A. (1997), OBJECTIFICATION THEORY. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 21: 173-206. https://doi-org.csi.ezproxy.cuny.edu/... Glapka, Ewa. “‘If You Look at Me like at a Piece of Meat, Then That’s a Problem’ - Women in the Center of the Male Gaze. Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis as a Tool of Critique.” Critical Discourse Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, 2018, pp. 87–103, https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2017.... Ponterotto, Diane (2016). Resisting the Male Gaze: Feminist Responses to the "Normatization" of the Female Body in Western Culture. Journal of International Women's Studies, 17(1), 133-151. Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol17/iss...