Kon’s transition cuts are memorable and intellect bending, the allusions to his immense palate of cinematic influences are savvy, and his enchantment to the multiplicity of the human expertise as thoughtful and poignant as at any time. An avowed cinephile, the most noticeable influences for Kon’s work on Perfect Blue are unmistakably that of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs.