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I got this film because it was a highly rated anime and because I'd seen Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue and really enjoyed it, seeing as this was about the dreams and altering reality I decided to give it a try.Firstly the animation was amazing, apparently they used some cgi in there- I couldn't even tell! The whole dream sequence is so extravagant all the movement and the colours it was brilliant.The music was something else as well, i had to get the soundtrack most of it is outstanding, it really works with the film and was apparently the first film soundtrack to use a vocaloid- a program/machine that mimics the human voice.As someone who immensely enjoyed Inception, I heard this was one of Christopher Nolan's inspirations for Inception I had to see it. The plot is really good, it keeps you guessing for most of the film and ends up with a huge fight in dreams/reality. The detective subplot was really inventive too, and I felt quite sorry for him when he was waiting for Paprika etc.Paprika is one of those films you can watch again and again and it all comes together even better, though it ends like Inception where you aren't overly sure what's been reality and a dream or if they're still in the dream.My only criticism is that the subtitles only match up with the Japanese, so watching in English with the subtitles - a little thing I do with every film- is annoying.Overall this film is great, and could fit in the same category as The Matrix - I just can't wait to read the book which was written in the 90's. It's a shame it took so long to make this film, and with a live action film being made soon this fantastic piece of cinema will reach more even people. 5*

Another great film from brilliant film maker, makes you think. And you won't just watch it once I guarantee...

Put simply Paprika is one of the strangest films I have ever seen and is a work of pure genius at the same time. In the film a device that allows someone to enter another's dream has been stolen and the devices designers try to track it down before it falls into the hands of a dream terrorist. This is what it says on in the blurb on the back of the DVD and although this is a good description the basic plot there is far more to it than this rather basic description. Paprika is a very difficult film to classify and it is definitely a film you will need to watch multiple times to understand it.Paprika is brilliantly made with some stunning and surreal animation easily showing how, when used properly, animation can be as good as if not better than anything live action can produce. The films plot can be very confusing but despite this, it never ceases to be anything less than engrossing. Whether you watch this film with the English dub or subtitles will have to be a personal choice as both have their advantages but I would have to say that the dubbed version is the easiest one to follow in places. Paprika is a simply stunning film and although definitely not to everyone's taste, it is easily one of my all time favourite films.

I'll give you my over all impression first because that's the crux of everything else I'm going to say: it feels as if they wanted to make this excellent, surreal series of animated dream sequences and just needed any old story to link it all together. It starts out slowly and a little misleadingly, but really gathers momentum and gets better and better as it goes along, faltering slightly in terms of pacing and direction at certain points in the latter half.The main plot, the only bit of the various narratives that the blurb touches, is remarkably basic and entirely unimpressive - and I don't think for a moment that anyone involved in making it would think otherwise. You see, what the blurb doesn't mention is that the REAL plot is actually each character's core psychological problem; the thing that stops them being the person they could be. Each of the characters have their own narrative about coming to terms with who they are (sounds cheesy, it's anything but in this movie) which they do by figuring out that one moment, or that one issue, that sort of derailed their smooth progress through life. Essentially, they get psychotherapy by living and reliving their dreams.Now that's what gives the film an emotional grounding and humanity, but despite the characters being handled as real people, rather than just devices for telling a story, I still can't shake the feeling that it's all just an excuse for some amazing - often stunning - dream sequences. I guess it's like a more artistic version of an action film, where every bit of plot exposition and dialogue is just a set-up for a shoot-out or an explosion. In short, no matter how believable (most of) the characters are, it all feels rather flat and somewhat on auto-pilot when it's not in a dream sequence. This is about 80% of the reason why this didn't get a 5/5 from me.The other reasons are that, like so many anime movies, it gets rather lost as it goes on and seems to lose its way and its pacing. It gets tied up in trying to deliver plot twists and in trying to be more complex than it need be. I'm not saying that it gets confusing, though some may find it does, but rather that as it goes on it sort of buckles under the weight of everything it's trying to say and do, and the drama, pacing and over all flow of the film suffer as a consequence. Then there's that while some of the characters are very well-developed and feel very human indeed, some others are criminally flat and clichéd. This would be OK if they were side-characters, but I'm referring to the bad guys of the piece.The reason you should watch this is because it's an often breathtaking display of imagination and animation, with some really believable characters with very human problems, all backed up by some incredibly original and fitting music. The whole "recover the dream devices" plot really takes a back seat to all those things.Some general notes: It contains elements of sci-fi, mystery, romance, action and fantasy. It appears to have received its 15 classification because there are a couple of breast shots and a scene in which a woman is held at the mercy of a man who wants to show his professed love to her by feeling her up and being a bit manic.

Beautifully drawn sort-of-thriller about the disappearance of the prototype of a machine which can monitor dreams. There are some inexplicable bits of plot (Why are we supposed not to know that A is merely B's virtual avatar, when it is so obvious? What on earth does B see in C? What's it all to D, anyway?) but it wouldn't be anime without them. The technique of manifesting oneself through the lens of a TV camera appears to be derived from Alice's method in 'Through the Looking Glass'. Thoroughly recommended to the connoisseur and collector, though perhaps not one for younger children susceptible to nightmares.

La película llego a tiempo y en buen estado. Espectacular película de Satoshi Kon, una joya de la animación como todos sus trabajos anteriores, y animada por Mad House, viene hablada en español latino y con subtítulos en español.

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Paprika stellte für mich damals den Einführungsfilm für Satoshi Kon’s Schaffen dar. Und ja, dementsprechend zählt er wohl auch zu meinem Lieblings-Film des Regisseurs. Der überkreative Science Fantasy-Film behandelt das Thema Träume so genial wie fesselnd und strotzt nebenbei mit völlig abgedrehten Bildern.In naher Zukunft:Der geniale, wenn auch infantile Doktor Kōsaku Tokita entwickelt ein Gerät mit dessen Hilfe man die Träume von Menschen aufzeichnen kann. Darüber hinaus können Außenstehende in diese Träume mit einsteigen und auch entsprechend manipulieren. Das Wundergerät heißt DC-Mini, und soll künftig bei der Psychotherapie zum Einsatz kommen. Tokita’s Kollegin und heimlicher Schwarm Dr. Atsuko Chiba setzt den DC-Mini jedoch bereits bei einigen Probanden ein. In den Träumen ihrer Patienten tritt sie in ihrem völlig gegensätzlichen, quirligen sowie lebensfrohen Alter Ego Paprika auf. Atsuko erweist sich in Sachen Traummanipulation zudem als äußerst fähig, da sie beinahe gottgleiche Kräfte innerhalb der Träume inne zu haben scheint.Als der DC-Mini jedoch aus dem Labor entwendet wird häufen sich Vorkommnisse in welchen Menschen spontan Tagträume erleben aus welchen sie nicht mehr zu erwachen scheinen. In ihrer Rolle als Paprika versucht Astuko zusammen mit Tokita den Drahtzieher hinter den Vorfällen zu finden und aufzuhalten. Doch die ganze Welt scheint hierdurch aus den Fugen zu geraten.Meine Meinung:Ein Rezensent hat es bereits schon sehr gut in Worte gefasst: Paprika ist Inception in gut. Dem kann ich mich ohne Widerworte anschließen. Kon griff das Traumthema perfekt auf und inszenierte ein bildgewaltiges, sowie kreatives Feuerwerk. Die Träume der Menschen sind wirr, durcheinander, sprunghaft sowie fantasievoll und manchmal auch direkt unheimlich. Zwar muss man klar sagen dass das Ende manchen nicht zufriedenstellen wird, da man keine definitiven Antworten auf den finalen Akt bekommt, nichtsdestotrotz sollte man sich nicht von dem hier gezeigten Wahnsinn abschrecken lassen.Die Figuren sind interessant (gerade Protagonistin Atsuko ist ein vielschichtiger Charakter), das dazugehörige Charakterdesign ist darüber hinaus äußerst ansprechend. Wer frühere Kon-Werke gesehen hat weiß was ihn/sie erwartet. Die flüssigen Animationen tragen dem fantasievollen Treiben zudem mehr als Rechnung. Diese sind superb und klasse in Szene gesetzt- ein wahres Fest für die Augen. Der Soundtrack wurde von Susumu Hirasawa komponiert, dessen Musik passend zum Film völlig abgespaced ist und die surrealen Traumwelten somit perfekt untermalt.Die deutsche Synchro geht meiner Meinung nach in Ordnung. Die Rollen wurden mit professionellen und bekannten Sprechern besetzt. Die leider bereits verstorbene Veronika Neugebauer übernahm die Rolle der Atsuko/Paprika. Sie war u.a. die deutsche Feststimme von Neve Campbell. Martin Halm, der Tokita seine Stimme lieh, ist im Bereich Anime auch kein unbekannter Geselle. Viele werden seine Stimme aber aus „How I Met Your Mother“ wiedererkennen. Dort war er die deutsche Stimme von Ted Mosby.Fazit:Paprika ist gewiss nicht für jeden geeignet. Geschmäcker sind aber bekanntlich verschieden. Wer sich lieber bei der Hand durch einen Film führen lässt und jedes noch so kleine Detail vorgekaut bekommen will, der wird mit Paprika nicht glücklich. Ich rate jedoch dazu dem Film eine Chance zu geben, sich vielleicht sogar erst Kons andere Werke anzuschauen („Toyko Godfathers“, „Millennium Actress“) bevor man sich an Paprika (und eventuell an „Perfect Blue“) heranwagt.So wie einige der bekanntesten Hollywood-Filme von Anime inspiriert waren, so nahm sich auch Nolan für Inception an Paprika ein Vorbild. Es hieß lange Zeit auch dass Wolfgang Petersen Paprika neu verfilmen wolle (woraus bis heute nix geworden ist). So ist es eben mit dem ideenarmen Hollywood: Meisterwerke schnell und billig kopieren. Ich wundere mich schon lange dass nicht schon „Mononoke Hime“ verwurstet wurde. Aber immerhin wurden schon Klassiker wie „Ghost in the Shell“ und „Death Note“ verschandelt (für Akira folgt alsbald auch eine Realverfilmung). Aber ich schweife ab.Ich kann Paprika nur empfehlen. Fans von Satoshi Kon`s Filmen werden ihn ohnehin schon im Regal stehen haben.

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Satoshi Kon and Madhouse come together again (Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers) to make Paprika, a brilliant film, hard to follow at times, but that is all intentional and it has all the hallmarks of Kon's directing style. Hard to pin down what genre this film is; its a sci-fi, psychological techno thriller that also gets listed under cyberpunk anime.Set in the near distant future, a device is stolen that allows others to share their dreams and causes nightmares for people. Dr Atsuko Chiba, a research psychologist, enters the dream world and changes into her alter ego-- and titular character-- Paprika, who is like a dream detective, and investigate the cases.You will be constantly be on your toes working out what is real and not as the film progresses. The animation is top notch by Madhouse, and with music by the great Susumu Hirasawa this is an all-round brilliant film that would end up being Satoshi Kon's final film before passing away (R.I.P).Highly recommended.