Kon’s transition cuts are memorable and head bending, the allusions to his huge palate of cinematic influences are savvy, and his attraction to the multiplicity of the human experience as considerate and poignant as ever. An avowed cinephile, the most noticeable influences for Kon’s operate on Perfect Blue are unmistakably that of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs.