Summary
The head of the scientific team, Dr. Chiba (voiced by Megumi Hayashibara), races to find the missing device, with the help of detective Toshimi Konakawa (Aldo Ohtsuka). Meanwhile Konakawa is receiving his own dream therapy from Paprika, a red-sneakered pixie girl who doesn't seem to exist in the same reality as everyone else. In fact, she appears to be the dream alter-ego of Dr. Chiba. While the scientist is an analytical ice queen, Paprika is saucy, reckless and flirtatious - Tinker Bell on Cinernax. It will take both sides of Chiba's psyche to fceep dreams from swajnp?' ing the waking world.
Why not? Maybe because [Satoshi Kon] has the common - but valid - insight that movies have already invaded people's dream lives. Rather than an illogical soup of symbols, the detective's dreams are a series of clips from different movie genres - mystery, action, romance. The film is filled with visual details that recall real movies: the talking dolls that welcome their creator home in Blade Runner, the sinister bartender from The Shining. But it's impossible to call a movie like Paprika derivative, except insofar as it's clearly an outgrowth of the whole "head trip" school of science fiction, from Philip K. Dick to David Cronenberg.See the full content of this document
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Paprika
Paprika ****
TRIPPING JAPANESEKimono-clad dolls and Hello Kitty will never look the same after you've seen Satoshi Kon's anime.In the 1995 flick Kicking and Screaming, a boy tells a girl his dream. She as...See the full content of this document
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