The Films That Shaped It

Perfect Blue

1998

The first time I saw Perfect Blue, which was probably around ’97 or ’98, I was just shocked by it. It’s an incredible film and I actually bought the rights to it, and I actually tried to adapt it with a live-action version which never went anywhere. Then, when I made Requiem for a Dream, there were two small homages to it in the film. The bathtub shot with the screaming and the shot of the girl putting her head under the water and screaming. So two shots, which were basically nods to Perfect Blu

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