 If you liked
Perfect Blue
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 ...then you might like
Steins;Gate
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Although inherently different in some respects, the parallel I'm drawing between the popular and beloved time travel phenomenon with this older and likewise beloved movie are the themes of self-identity, of its degradation following distressing circumstances, of trauma and its ability to blur our vision of reality, distorting the very senses that leave us on the brink of sanity, and of the prevalent idea that upon losing one's sense of self, upon discovering that "other" voice in the back of your heart, you begin to fall into what seems like a bottomless pit, leaving you to question "is this the real me?"
Uneasy, Disturbing, Surreal and a step too close to home.
Steins Gate and Perfect Blue are both incredible psychological thrillers, they both play into the existential horror that someone, somewhere is not only out to get us but is watching our every move obsessively to maximise our suffering and paranoia.
Okabe & Mima are not alike in their surface personalities or persona, Okabe is an ignorant, mildly perverted, self-proclaimed mad scientist. Where as Mima is a semi-respectful, sheepish Ex -Pop Idol changing careers to an actress.
But where they both share a similarity is their believable and all too real sense of trauma, neuroticism and psychotic tendencies
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