All the die-hard moviegoers can punch me in the face for not having seen Inception (yet). However, given the screencaps and plot summaries I have read of the latter, I can (semi-safely) say that were Inception a brightly lit, beautifully animated technicolor mindfuck, it would be like Paprika.So what is this movie about? Dreams. Dream technology. Psychology. Freudian allusions and Jungian images (butterflies, dolls, wise old men). Mostly, it's a wild, gorgeous trek through surrealist landscapes and nonsensical dialogues, frozen running and familiar strangers that we so often find hiding in the corners of our own minds. There's funny and creepy, disturbing and psychedelic, and when it's over you want to slide that little bar on your computer to the way, way, left, and experience it all over again.
Paprika, Satoshi Kon, 2006. Rated R.
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