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Plot: A machine allows therapists to enter patients' dreams. When it's stolen, all hell breaks loose, and only a woman therapist (nicknamed "Paprika") seems able to stop it.
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MCT:August 4, 2008holy shit...MEGUMI's Back.
no seriously..if this one is as good as perfect blue..this should be awesome
update: just saw this finally recently: and dude YAH! surreal as hell, but flat out AMAZING! to top it off: Its based on a novel, theres even a special after the movie talking about the author and the director working together to make the film a reality -
MCT:August 3, 2008I tried watching Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue a while back, and just could not get into it. I basically forced myself to watch it. In short, I didn't like it. Paprika on the other hand, is really something else. A real mind-fuck, and you can tell the animators had a fun time with this. It's a real treat for the eyes, but also the senses when the film manages to mesh artsy surrealism with good ol' film noir. Like watching a really trippy detective flick! My God, I hadn't watched a compelling animated flick like this in a while!
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MCT:August 2, 2008My knowledge of anime is very limited, it's pretty much Akira and Hayao Miyazaki's films. (Who my son totally adores.) I've seen 10 to 20 other random anime films, but nothing I can fully remember, half of them involving a monster with a lot of tentacles attacking Japanese school-girls, most of them pretty bad. It's a genre that I've always meant to explore more, but I haven't been compelled to beyond Miyazaki's masterpieces. I'd read some raving reviews for Paprika and when I went to put it in my queue, Netflix had a page full of 5 star reviews, so I hesitantly put it towards the top of my rather long list.
Again I was disappointed. Paprika is some kind of dream warrior-princess, who enters other people's dreams, trying to help them figure out what they mean. For a lead character, with extra cool abilities, she's incredibly dull. She has unlimited powers in the dream world, but doesn't really show them off till the end and doesn't seem interested in helping solve any of the dream world's problems. Even more boring is the cop whose dream ties into everything. Then there's the fat guy, he's hippo large, who invented the gizmo that allows people to go into dreams, he's dull. An old guy who manages the company that makes the gizmo, double dull. And the real life girl who becomes Paprika, she's boring too. None of these characters seem to connect in any human kind of fashion. The most interesting character is the bad guy, but even he's fairly forgettable.
By all rights Paprika should have been right up my alley. The animation is absolutely gorgeous; strange, psychotic imagery fills the screen for most of the film. Much of it takes place in the dream world, something that has always greatly intrigued me, and I usually love to see explored in films. But it literally took me three nights and a morning to get through this 90 minute film. I fell asleep three times, after only getting through about 30 minutes of viewing, then having to backtrack a bit the next night. Paprika moves at a glacial pace at best, I could never fully grasp what was happening, because the plot never seemed to move forward. After finally getting through it all, I found no greater meaning, it seemed like five minutes of story, stretched to feature length.
Which is really too bad, because I'm going to take another break from anime. Here's a film that was raved upon by film buffs, a subject that is very near to my heart, beautiful hand-drawn animation, something I deeply miss, and I was bored to tears. The opening five minutes (which I've posted below) really grabbed my attention, but the characters take forever to move beyond that, they keep exploring that same dream over and over. I did dig the idea of somebody using this dream device to take over the world, by attacking people's unconscious minds, but it seemed secondary, and by the time there was a huge battle between gigantic dream gods in the middle of Tokyo, I didn't care. Obviously the film works for some people, I wish it had for me, but it didn't.
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MCT:July 24, 2008
An exciting acid trip of a movie that blurs the lines between reality and dreams better than other stories of the genre. Well done!
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MCT:July 8, 2008I'm not usually a big fan of anime,' but this was quite well made. Plus it had the interesting concept of being able to control one's dreams, and what happens when our dreams go out of control. Cool trippy stuff.
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MCT:July 5, 2008
It's "Paranoia Agent" meets "The Matrix". It has some pretty cool scenes but for the most part you probably won't know what's going on.
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MCT:June 29, 2008
Tremendo peliculonononon de Satoshi Kon... una montaña de rusa de ideas y emociones con una tratamiento estetico intachable
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MCT:June 27, 2008Visually dazzlying at times, and a bit repetitive at others. The story is structurally sound, a bit awash in its own psychological symbols, but in a playful and sinister J-pop way the film as a whole, still manages still hold itself together. It's not Howl's Moving Castle and it's not Ghost In The Shell, and it seems like it was shooting in between, with playful excess and somber seriousness, though largely off course. The animation however was beautiful, and the film excelled during those madcap Technicolor dream sequences, but suffers as it tries to create tension and a sense of mystery. The characters fall somewhat flat, especially our heroine Paprika, however this was a much more interesting anime than most, with a story which will interest those looking for great Japanese animation that does not derive from the Manga tradition(this film was based on a novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui), and which does deliver in cinematic beauty and whimsy, this is for you. Enjoy the pretty colors.
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MCT:June 20, 2008
greatly portrayed excellent animation.. loved it all the way.. the characters are funny serious and the theme is quite interesting!! you will love the visuals!!
A machine allows therapists to enter patients' dreams. When it's stolen, all hell breaks loose, and only a woman therapist (nicknamed "Paprika") seems able to stop it. -
MCT:June 14, 2008
When making a film about dreams, it makes logical sense to not make any sense or logic whatsoever. The idea of the dream world merging with ours is a confusing concept, there never seems to be a set of ground rules, and it seems like it shifts here and there for insanity's sake.
And of course, I love that. :D Sometimes movies have to be surreal and confusing. Dreams and confusion are a big thing for me, typically I have dreams that are very similar to this film and it was kinda cool to see that in an actual narrative film.
And it's nice to see an anime film that just tells a damn story. No message, no hoopla, just tell the story and make it good. And for me, I got what I wanted from it.
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MCT:June 13, 2008
Visually inventive and beautifully constructed mind bender which tackles dream states' manipulation with technology. Largely comprehensible for Manga, it's let down by a flat ending.
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MCT:June 7, 2008
Paprika is a very crazy film, yet with bits of great originality. The character development is EXTREMELLY GOOD, and it is well-written. Although it not may be Satoshi Kon's best film, it surely has the best animation in it and is the most intense and vissionary. Fantastic movie overall.
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MCT:May 27, 2008
I loved the themes in this movie, and some of the animation is vividly interesting. I enjoyed the dreaming. :)
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MCT:May 23, 2008
I prefer the other Satoshi Kon movies. This one is way too confusing for me. I tell, you some of those Japanese animations really make me feel I am under the influence of drugs. I have to give them though that their craft is far more perfected than our average sunday morning toons.
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MCT:May 21, 2008
Christ alive this movie is fantastic! The story of therapist Paprika who sets out to put things right after a machine which allows people to record, watch and interfere in dreams is stolen; upsettingly colourful and visually incredible, this film has it all. That epic theme tune I can only describe as what japenese tetris would sound like, the concept alone is worth watching for and every scene is captivating as hell. Maybe a few moments are a little scrappy, in that they don't really belong and serve the movie in no beneficial way, but that's no hindrance to this one. Completely great...
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MCT:May 11, 2008
bit disjointed. I'm all for suspending reality but you can't just leave storylines unexplained and use the excuse that the film is about the dream world thus nothing makes sense. That just seems lazy on the writers part. Amazing music
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MCT:May 9, 2008
I was very impressed by the animation in this film and the fact that it has a very interesting storyline.
This movie is bound to amaze you somehow. I reccomend it to anyone who doesn't mind watching a japanese anime movie. Good watch. -
MCT:May 6, 2008
This movie is just amazing and you have to take it in for what it is. It's based around a dream machine that allows therapists to go into a patient's dream. It gets stolen and placed in the wrong hands, leaving that person with the ability to alter people's dreams into suicides or changing the whole world into a dream.
When I first saw this movie I got really mad because I didn't get it AT ALL. It was so bizarre that I was hurting my brain trying to follow it. But this movie is definetely for the deep thinkers out there. Once I saw it a second time I fell in love with it and I can't stop watching it! The colors and animation is BEAUTIFUL and its filled with such bright, scary ideas that it makes you think about the future and technology and lots of different ideas. -
MCT:May 5, 2008
Awesome movie. Talking about dreams and psychology is not an easy task and even if sometimes it was quite hard to follow the plot, Paprika remains a really good animation. Beautiful design and nics sound tracks.
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MCT:May 5, 2008
Category: Movies
Genre: Animation
Psychotherapy is very much real today, yet in Satoshi Kon's PAPRIKA it climbs up a couple of notches. The DC mini was invented by a young doctor named Dr. Tokita. Like any inventor with a noble cause, Tokita envisioned the device to be a great help in solving problems of future patients.
Unfortunately, three of the prototypes were stolen. This is where the trouble begins.
Science is a wonderful "gift" to mankind, but once misused, danger not only lurks in one corner...it makes itself known.
This is the thrust of the story by Seishi Minakami collaborated with the famous director himself.
No one can play God. If he/she tries to be God, he/she will destruct, rather than create.
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I liked this movie...the merging of dreams...the merging of characters...In the first 45 minutes of the film I was already rating it with three stars, but the last ten minutes convinced me it's a four.
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This film is definitely NOT for kids because of the many disturbing portions.
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In 2008 Won a Chlotrudis Award in Best Visual Design. The Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film is a non-profit organization that builds audiences for independent film, helps people experience the world through independent film, and encourages discussion and discourse about film and the world. (from the event's web site, 2004)
In 2007, Satoshi Kon won the Fantasporta Critics' Choice award.
Also in 2007, Satoshi Kon won Montréal Festival of New Cinema's Public's Choice Award
and lastly (also in 2007) The movie won the best feature film award in the Newport Beach Film Festival.
It also was nominated for best animation of the Online Film Critics Society (2008) and last 2006 Satoshi Kon was nominated for the Golden Lion award of Venice Film Festival. -
MCT:May 2, 2008
Excellent movie, but it will screw with you. The animation is very good as to be expected for a movie of this caliber. I almost want to say it's a must see but since it is technically anime people will probably veer away. As I said earlier this movie will screw with you in terms that you will have a hard time defining what is "real" and what is the dreams in this movie. Hope you don't mind subtitles. :D
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MCT:April 24, 2008
Thoroughly entertaining and proficient anime. the best animation i have ever seen. totally fantastic. great characters and story. wow.
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MCT:April 15, 2008Satoshi Kon's film adaptation of popular Japaneese novel Paprika, written by a famous and successful Japaneese author.
Kon's great attention to real life details,is exhibited in each of his projects and very much so in Paprika.
This film is loaded with vivid color, surreal lighting effects,and environments that truly explore the depth of existance.each scene and detail beautifully animated, in a unique style which Kon has really made his signature.
Very adventurous in nature,Paprika is a highly imaginative story about the subconscious.
With the high production value and consistancy that you've come to expect from todays top animated films.
Kon hand drew 1046 single frames of storyboard which took him a little over a year and a half to complete.
Almost ever aspect of the film was overseen by Kon including the voice recording, which he also lended his voice for one of the characters.
Audio and visuals work woderfully together, although the storyline appears far fateched and hard to follow, making it a deeply thought provoking fiction fantasy of grand proportions.
A simple theme describing the core plot could be stated as What Happens when a dream mergers with other dreams becomes uncontrollable and begins seeping into reality? This idea is expanded upon throught the film.
The characters consist of all adult profesionals, all of them having a relation to each other and play a significant part in the story. With each of these characters The creator has managed to avoid stereotypes, and give them each a uniqueness and certain relatability. Instead of using the straightforward approach of defining Heroes and Villians by way of right vs wrong, each characters motives are used to determine a more complex classification.
Paprika is overall a rich and intriguing tale that you will need to watch more than once to really grasp and appreciate its meaning. -
MCT:April 3, 2008
a mixture between the loads of color and music and excellent animation, and a strange story travelling aroud the visible world and the dream world, Paprika is a beautiful mess
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pressoffice1posted 52 days ago -
I'm so glad my friends told me that they were playing this at the college near me. Loved the story, music, and characters. It was really fun trying to see all the other movie references in this movie. Plus it was a real trippy movie too.
posted 328 days ago -
I cannot wait to see this in theatres. I just hope that the 'indie' theatre gets it close to its release date.
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