Perfect blue
Director:Satoshi Kon
Released: 1997
Actors: Junka Iwao- -Mima Kirigoe
Rica Matsumoto- - Rumi
I have chosen the scene where Mima finally finds out who the real stalker is, its a good scene with a fine use of scene setting music.
Characters
The two characters that are involved in this scene are Mima, the main character,who has just been involved in an attack on herself, and Rumi, her co-manager and friend.
Setting
The movie is set in what seems to be modern day Tokyo. The movie tells the story of a pop star from a girl band called CHAM, who at the beginning of the movie announces that she will be leaving her pop career behind to concentrate on acting. Soon afterwards she starts to get abusive faxs and strange phonecalls, and finds out about a site called Mimas room, where a fan seems to be impersonating her.
Soon after she decides to be involved in a controversial rape scene in a straight to dvd movie. This decision has dire results for several members involved in creating the scene.Mima herself is deeply effected by the event and starts to spiral into a state of madness, seeing ghosts of her former pop career self. She starts to question her own identity.
The scene itself is set in what first appears to be Mima's studio. we soon learn that the apartment is not hers but her friends, Rumi. It is here that we find out that Rumi was behind the events that had befallen Mima since she left her pop career behind to concentrate on her acting career.
Mise-en-scene
The scene is set in what we are suppose to think is Mima's room. The room itself is modeled precisely on Mima's room, except the fish had died in Mima's original room. The poster that she had taken down seems to be put back up. Mima slowly realizes that somethings off and then Rumi enters the room wearing one of Mimas outfits.The music works well in building up tension to the reveal. The scene is warmly lit, the uneasiness is set by the audio, which with the music adds tension.
Camera work
The scene begins with a smooth transition from the car to the room.Then there is an estabalishing shot of Mima's room, as she is on the bed. The camera then cuts to scenes of her possessions, then comes back to a front view of Mima as she talks to Rumi. She then remembers to ring Tadokoro, her agent, and as she does so the camera slowly zooms into the fish tank. The next scene then cuts to an outside area, looking at a car the camera pans from right to left, then from bottom left to top right as we discover that Tadokoro's eyes gauged out and the dead body of Me-Mania.
The next shot then looks from the point of view of the back of the fish tank as we see that the tank has live fish in it, the suspenseful music starts to swell here. We then cut to a shot of Mima looking at the huge poster on the wall.This shot is followed by a full shot of the room, Mima standing to the left of the shot.The camera then looks from over the shoulder as Mima looks out the window, then pans back to focus in on Mima's face, then we get a shot of Mima from the front as the door opens behind her and Rimu comes out wearing one of Mima's dresses. We then get a great shot as the camera pulls up from bottom to top of a mirror that reveals Rimu in the dress. Shot ends with the camera pointing up at a Mima's shocked face.
Sounds and music
The scene starts out quiet, everything seems nice and calm, we can here what sounds like water quietly boiling away, this sound last for the entire scene, then as we get the reveal that the stawlker we thought might still be alive is now dead, and that there is live fish in the tank the sound trak comes in, slowly building up as Mima discovers that she is not in her place and that Rumi is the imposter.
The scene itself is set in what first appears to be Mima's studio. we soon learn that the apartment is not hers but her friends, Rumi. It is here that we find out that Rumi was behind the events that had befallen Mima since she left her pop career behind to concentrate on her acting career.
Mise-en-scene
The scene is set in what we are suppose to think is Mima's room. The room itself is modeled precisely on Mima's room, except the fish had died in Mima's original room. The poster that she had taken down seems to be put back up. Mima slowly realizes that somethings off and then Rumi enters the room wearing one of Mimas outfits.The music works well in building up tension to the reveal. The scene is warmly lit, the uneasiness is set by the audio, which with the music adds tension.
Camera work
The scene begins with a smooth transition from the car to the room.Then there is an estabalishing shot of Mima's room, as she is on the bed. The camera then cuts to scenes of her possessions, then comes back to a front view of Mima as she talks to Rumi. She then remembers to ring Tadokoro, her agent, and as she does so the camera slowly zooms into the fish tank. The next scene then cuts to an outside area, looking at a car the camera pans from right to left, then from bottom left to top right as we discover that Tadokoro's eyes gauged out and the dead body of Me-Mania.
The next shot then looks from the point of view of the back of the fish tank as we see that the tank has live fish in it, the suspenseful music starts to swell here. We then cut to a shot of Mima looking at the huge poster on the wall.This shot is followed by a full shot of the room, Mima standing to the left of the shot.The camera then looks from over the shoulder as Mima looks out the window, then pans back to focus in on Mima's face, then we get a shot of Mima from the front as the door opens behind her and Rimu comes out wearing one of Mima's dresses. We then get a great shot as the camera pulls up from bottom to top of a mirror that reveals Rimu in the dress. Shot ends with the camera pointing up at a Mima's shocked face.
Sounds and music
The scene starts out quiet, everything seems nice and calm, we can here what sounds like water quietly boiling away, this sound last for the entire scene, then as we get the reveal that the stawlker we thought might still be alive is now dead, and that there is live fish in the tank the sound trak comes in, slowly building up as Mima discovers that she is not in her place and that Rumi is the imposter.
