And I reeaaally did not like the examination table scene; it seemed gratuitous to me in a way Perfect Blue's harassment did not.
Yessss, this. I watched Paprika a few months ago and haven't watched Perfect Blue in years, but I remember going 'yes, I see what you're doing here' with all those scenes in Perfect Blue, whereas that one scene in Paprika just had me going JFC DNW. (I love that movie, but I also hate that she gave up her dreamwalking job to go get married.) In addition, I do love that the two really turning-point moments for Mima in the latter half of the film (hitting her stalker in the temple with a hammer, stabbing her manager) were the ones where she was able to ignore all the outside factors and trust at least her own body if not her mind.
I cannot tell you how many times I've rewatched that scene where Mima clocks stalker-guy in the temple with that hammer, because I love the way everything just stops for a moment, all the sexist gaslighting bullshit she's had to deal with the whole time embodied in that guy (at the moment, anyway) is completely halted for one instant by her own actions. Of course things go on and get worse right after, but that one moment always gets me.
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Date: 2012-08-18 02:16 (UTC)Yessss, this. I watched Paprika a few months ago and haven't watched Perfect Blue in years, but I remember going 'yes, I see what you're doing here' with all those scenes in Perfect Blue, whereas that one scene in Paprika just had me going JFC DNW. (I love that movie, but I also hate that she gave up her dreamwalking job to go get married.) In addition, I do love that the two really turning-point moments for Mima in the latter half of the film (hitting her stalker in the temple with a hammer, stabbing her manager) were the ones where she was able to ignore all the outside factors and trust at least her own body if not her mind.
I cannot tell you how many times I've rewatched that scene where Mima clocks stalker-guy in the temple with that hammer, because I love the way everything just stops for a moment, all the sexist gaslighting bullshit she's had to deal with the whole time embodied in that guy (at the moment, anyway) is completely halted for one instant by her own actions. Of course things go on and get worse right after, but that one moment always gets me.