Name: Anonymous 2005-04-21 11:10
Warning, spoilers follow.
Finished watching this and I'm confused. Based on the ending it seems like the man Chiyoko is searching for is real, but the movies she's made have the same theme... do the films happen to be related to her real-life pursuit, or does the man not exist and her search is just a fond remembrance of a theme from the old moviemaking days?
My assumption is that the 1000-year-curse is the underlying subplot for all the movies she was in because they have the same theme (if you think of them as a series) But maybe this is incorrect, because the concept of the curse is introduced in a later film, not the first one where she meets the mysterious man.
Her key does seem to be separate from the movies, so I guess that's real, which would lead credence to the idea that her search for the man also actually happens - but then you run into all the movie clips that have the same concept. Separating her experiences from those in the movie is difficult.
I guess the plot and ending are open-ended enough that you could interpret it in several ways, I'm curious to know what others thought.
I really like Satoshi Kon's work - at the moment I've seen Tokyo Godfathers, his segment from Memories, and Perfect Blue. What else has he done?
Finished watching this and I'm confused. Based on the ending it seems like the man Chiyoko is searching for is real, but the movies she's made have the same theme... do the films happen to be related to her real-life pursuit, or does the man not exist and her search is just a fond remembrance of a theme from the old moviemaking days?
My assumption is that the 1000-year-curse is the underlying subplot for all the movies she was in because they have the same theme (if you think of them as a series) But maybe this is incorrect, because the concept of the curse is introduced in a later film, not the first one where she meets the mysterious man.
Her key does seem to be separate from the movies, so I guess that's real, which would lead credence to the idea that her search for the man also actually happens - but then you run into all the movie clips that have the same concept. Separating her experiences from those in the movie is difficult.
I guess the plot and ending are open-ended enough that you could interpret it in several ways, I'm curious to know what others thought.
I really like Satoshi Kon's work - at the moment I've seen Tokyo Godfathers, his segment from Memories, and Perfect Blue. What else has he done?