Oct 21, 2018
If you're the kind of person who dislikes when film's suddenly decide to drop acid and go nuts on screen, leaving the viewer at a loss for what to make of it all, (looking at you 2001: A Space Odyssey) then parts of Paprika can prove frustrating. What separates it from other works is that it can hit you with several of these moments without losing you because it does a good job of explaining itself following the little trips it takes, while also never stooping down to the point where you feel you're being spoon fed the exposition. It leaves enough up to interpretation, yet grounds its imagery in the kind of story it wants to tell. If we can definitively say one thing about this film's creators, it's that they're, well, creative. The all out assault and sensory overload never reaches levels that would have left me writing it off completely as an artsy fever dream, and for that I give it credit. The art is good, the characters can be a little thin at times, but the story moves at a brisk pace, and is certainly interesting. As with Perfect Blue, you get out of this film what you put in, and the more attention you pay it, the more you stand to appreciate it.
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