Perfect Blue, Idoru, Japan

[ewx]

Watched Perfect Blue with Vicky, and greatly enjoyed it; I think it will admit to watching again knowing what's going on right from the start.

I'm glad we watched it with subtitles rather than dubbed; while I don't even begin to understand Japanese, I know or at least recognize enough words that having the original voice track as well as the subtitles made a difference. (And I realized that I'd been pronouncing 'idoru' wrong ever since the William Gibson novel of that name - I'd not even twigged that it was a loan word.)

It was also interesting noticing things like the combined taps for bath and sink that I think I recall from pictures of pm215's current place.

Comments

Plumbing

[mtbc100.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. It's the little things that accumulate to make me feel quite adrift.

[pm215]

Heh. Tojo seem to have a monopoly on sanitaryware here (a bit like Armitage Shanks in the UK but even more ubiquitous).

Your pronunciation issues are probably not helped by Gibson dreadfully misromanising the word -- it's アイドル [aidoru]. (Since this is smashing a dipthong into a single vowel it's even less excusable than the usual loss of long vowel indication.) However the pronunciation doesn't change whether it's a loan word or not :-)

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

What I find helps about having the original voice track is the tones of voice; that never seems to get picked up in the dub.

Must watch Princess Mononoke sometime too..

[mobbsy.livejournal.com]

There's a pretty good AMV (http://www.cyberdojo.com/PixieDust/anime/Movies/MusicVid/%20NIN%20-%20The%20Perfect%20Drug%20(Perfect%20Blue)%20-%20Maboroshi.mpg) of Perfect Blue/Perfect Drug (it probably helps to know the NIN song).

[pm215]

The other reason to watch the sub is that it has Japanese for all levels of ability, right down to あなたは だれですか [anata wa dare desu ka?] repeated over and over to be sure you get it right :-)

[doseybat.livejournal.com]

saw it for the first time last weekend and it was amazing, especially the way they have of starting things out like such a normal and cheerful cartoon and an hour later its this surreal psychological disorientation..