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Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1262080315339599872\n\nCW:\xa0Rape, Child Abuse, Suicide, Mental Illness\n\nIt\u2019s Fractured Identities Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey can't tell if this episode is real or not. Does Special Guest Eileen even exist?\n\nThe Classic Film:\xa0Perfect Blue (1997)\n"A retired pop singer turned actress[, Mima's] sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past\u201d (IMDb.com). Prolific Japanese writer and artist Satoshi Kon got his directorial film debut with this adaptation of Yoshikazu Takeuchi's novel, Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis. He never did anything quite like it again, and even though our next entry owes a lot to it, you'll probably never see anything quite like Perfect Blue anywhere else.\n\nThe Modern Film:\xa0Black Swan (2010)\n"A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's 'Swan Lake'\u201d (IMDb.com). Based on a pre-existing script about something else, featuring thematic similarities and homages to other movies, and focusing on an all-time classic ballet, Black Swan manages to be wholly unique and fascinating. Intriguingly, it's more fantastical than our animated entry.\n\nAudio Sources:\n"Black Swan" produced by Fox Searchlight Pictures, et al.\n"Girlfriendklok" (Metalocalypse S01E18) produced by Titmouse & Williams Street\n"Perfect Blue" produced by Rex Entertainment, et al.\n"Pet Sematary" written by Dee Dee Ramone & Daniel Rey and performed by The Ramones\n"Split" produced by Universal Pictures, et al.\n"Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" produced by Lucasfilm\n"Tune Up #1" (from Rent -- Original Broadway Cast Recording) written by Jonathan Larson and performed by Anthony Rapp & Adam Pascal