| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Psychological thriller about excessive celebrity fan-mania coupled with a need to avoid type-casting so that performers can expand and develop their careers. And yet so many fans want to keep their idols firmly locked in a career straitjacket such that the celebrity can never move-on because the fan cannot. This is made worse here by the career-changing celebrity who secretly feels she should have been loyal to her more obsessed fans.
This movie cleverly plays with reality and public image as we watch the central character haunted by her alter ego; while portraying a character on tv in a similar situation – as a serial killer is on the rampage in real life. It soon becomes as difficult to tell fact from fiction for the central character as it is for the audience.
An interesting hybridization of Silence of the Lambs with Adaptation that plays with the idea that celebrities are more exploited by their publics’ failings than exploiting of them: That fantasy and reality can become confused in the struggle between what you want to be and what your fans want you to be. The ego-conflict here is produced when the celebrity wants to change, but fears their fans negative reactions.
Despite the mediocre animation, this is a first-rate thrill-ride because the characters make complete sense.
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