Perfect Blue is a animated horror movie released in 1997. I chose to write about the movie because of its increasing relevance of message in today's society. The movie is about a pop star named Mimi, who is tired of being a pop star and tries to become a young actress. However the persona that she made for herself as a pop-star is broken, and with that comes disappointment from her fans, one of which is a obsessed stalker, who sees Mimi as an object, not as a person with a separate life from her own persona avatar. This leads to the stalker becoming increasingly violent towards those who support Mimi's acting career and actual real life character. However there is also a supernatural twist, the persona that Mimi made for herself comes to life, and eventually there isn't telling which scene is reality and fiction as the personas interact with each other. Scenes that seem real will be fake, such as sleeping being part of a TV show. This all concludes to the idea that the personas we identify online and in person, can interact and cause illusions among us. This is more prominent today as nearly everyone has at the very least one social media account, before thing such as FaceBook and Twitter were made, the only real personas the general audience could interact with were celebrities, but now in our own right, everyone is a bit like their own celebrity with everyone having a small gathering of followers online. So what is the effect of having multiple personas for everyone with access to your persona do? It may change the way you are perceived, no one wants to be perceived in a negative light, that is why we all put so much time into our online accounts, to look as interesting, fun, and better than we actually are as possible.
I agree with what you have observed and stated. We often want to portray ourselves as being interesting or exciting. We want to highlight the best parts of our lives, as when people view our social media accounts they would have a postitive idea of you.
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