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Question about the murders

posted 13 years ago by varvara_kod1988
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I was just thinking, i read that many believed that Mima didn't actually kill anyone, and that it was Rumi who did everything. But if that is true, how come Mima had all the nightmares about people being killed, and then waking up only to realise that the people she dreamt were actually dead?

I have a different opinion. I think that Mima lost control of her reality. Being an actress was something that her reps wanted, not her. She was just trying to make herself beleive that she wanted to be an actress as well. During this, and after her 'rape' and nude shooting, she just snapped, because she saw that her fans where not supporting her anymore. Thus she killed at least the photographer and she made it look as if Rumi did, because she already had her mental problems. So she could avenge both the ones that persuaded her in leaving the singing industry, and the creepy guys that started taking advantage of her. Kinda reminds me of Primal Fear, with Norton. So Rumi was institucionalised and Mima 'washed the sinfull image' from her. I really found the smile in the end on the movie, kinda creepy and hipocritic. Plus, why would the camera show us her smile inside the mirror, and not lets say as being in front her? Maybe because during the movie her 'other half' was continuously being seen in mirrors, glass windows and reflective surfaces in general? Does that mean she continuoued being...problematic? Hmmm, just wondering...

[–] ark_angel_27 13 years ago

I have read many possibilities of the unexplained or confusion about the murders.
What if Rumi was the one who put up the Website, the letter was given to Mima at her last concert, so here is what i think that Rumi knew she was quitting so she was the one who created "Mima's Room" Rumi could have easily slipped it with all of the other fan mail.

From there she notice Me-Mania she recognizes that he has an obsession, so she poses online as "Mima" and writes to Me-Mania stating where and when and who to murder.

There is a point that Obsession is a very powerful emotion and with that Rumi uses Me-Mania as a pawn to break Mima's metal stability. Me-Mania murders the screen writer and photographer, with the media practically braking down mima's door she is now off the deep end and can't distinguish reality and fantasy.

I believe that the only murder Rumi actually committed was the other talent agent Mr. Tadokoro, I know what your going to say, the eyes where removed from the victims, you can assume that Rumi specifically told Me-Mania to remove the eye through email/conversations through "Mima's Room". Me-Mania is a class A nut job so i believe that he would do anything that "Mima" ask him to do without question.

As for Me-Mania, Mima killed him in self-defense and Rumi stash the bodies backstage. The scene shows that his eyes were intact so we can safely assume that he was the one, (by instruction by Rumi posing as "Mima") who took the eyes out of the victim.

This is one of many explanations on/how the murders.

[–] Bree_33 12 years ago

An Excellent Explanation, Ark angel...

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