I liked Perfect Blue. I liked how we never really knew what was going on, because right when everything is explained, they go and mess it up again. But I didn't like Millennium Actress.
When I saw Kill Bill, I thought of this film. In KB, they do crazy stuff, like make the screen go red and play weird music, and make everything suddenly go black and white for no reason, show a lil' 3-D plane moving on a 3-D map to show that the character is flying to a different place, and play this crazy whistle music. In the second movie, the main character actually mentions what critics said about the film! What the heck? I can't believe that Quentin Tarantino actually got away with doing all of those weird things.
I feel the same way about Satoshi Kon. Why the heck did they let him get away with making his movie the way he did? I'll go into detail about whta I didn't like below. I really don't think it's that much of a 'spoiler' though.
I hope that someone who has seen it feels the same way, or can explain to me what the heck happened. Maybe you're not supposed to reason with the film, just watch it, because since it makes no sense, trying to understand it would only ruin it. Is that so?It starts out simply enough. The actress' childhood. She meets a guy and finds a key. Then, she becomes an actress. She searches for the guy. But then we find out that the scenes where she was searching for the guy were actually filmed. So, was she really searching, or was that just what her movies were about? This stupid stuff continues throughout the whole film. And the people interviewing her are able to interact with her memories...what the fudge? What was going on? Even the fricken' camera guy didn't know.
