Movie
I went to a movie this evening with my mother and brother. Someone asked me earlier if I wanted to see it with her, and while I said sure, she wanted me to check the website first. She said she'd call when she was free. Because the last several times she has said this have ended in me either not seeing the movie or going by myself, I jumped at the opportunity to go with my family. Glad I did, too!
If you get a chance to see it, I recommend Paprika! It's rated "R," and for good reason. Some of the content is a little disturbing, and there is some brief nudity. It's not a movie for kids, but because people often fall into the trap of thinking, "It's animated! Obviously it is a children's flick!" I think the rating it got was a good idea. Unrelated to the rating, it's in Japanese and so subtitled, if that's going to bother you.
29 year old Dr. Atsuko Chiba is an attractive but modest Japanese research psychotherapist whose work is on the cutting edge of her field. Her alter-ego is a stunning and fearless 18 year old "dream detective," code named Paprika, who can enter into people's dreams and synchronize with their unconscious to help uncover the source of their anxiety or neurosis.
At Atsuko's lab, a powerful new psychotherapy devise known as the "DC-Mini" has been invented by her brilliant colleague, Dr. Tokita, a nerdy overweight genius. Although this state-of-art device could revolutionize the world of psychotherapy, in the wrong hands the potential misuse of the devise could be devastating, allowing the user to completely annihilate the dreamer's personality while they are asleep.
When one of the only four existing DC-Mini prototypes is stolen in the final stages of research around the same time that Dr. Tokita's research assistant Himuro goes missing, Atsuko suspects it's not a coincidence. If the DC-Mini isn't found, this could lead to the government's refusal to sanction the use of the machine for psychotherapy treatment.
When several of the remaining researchers at the lab start to go mad, dreaming while in their waking states, haunted by a Japanese doll which featured heavily in the dreams of one of Himuro's schizophrenic patients, Atsuko knows for sure that whoever is manipulating the machines has a more evil purpose. The DC-Mini is being used to destroy people's minds.
There is a lot of reality-bending, and sometimes it was a little hard to tell what was real and what was not (they got me a few times). I know my mind has been ruined forever because I kept thinking how it would cross over remarkably well with Silent Hill. I will clearly never be sane again. I do not appear to care.
It was a good film, though! If I do actually get a call asking me to go see it, I will see it a second time and be happy about it.
The two bartenders are delightful! hee!
If you get a chance to see it, I recommend Paprika! It's rated "R," and for good reason. Some of the content is a little disturbing, and there is some brief nudity. It's not a movie for kids, but because people often fall into the trap of thinking, "It's animated! Obviously it is a children's flick!" I think the rating it got was a good idea. Unrelated to the rating, it's in Japanese and so subtitled, if that's going to bother you.
29 year old Dr. Atsuko Chiba is an attractive but modest Japanese research psychotherapist whose work is on the cutting edge of her field. Her alter-ego is a stunning and fearless 18 year old "dream detective," code named Paprika, who can enter into people's dreams and synchronize with their unconscious to help uncover the source of their anxiety or neurosis.
At Atsuko's lab, a powerful new psychotherapy devise known as the "DC-Mini" has been invented by her brilliant colleague, Dr. Tokita, a nerdy overweight genius. Although this state-of-art device could revolutionize the world of psychotherapy, in the wrong hands the potential misuse of the devise could be devastating, allowing the user to completely annihilate the dreamer's personality while they are asleep.
When one of the only four existing DC-Mini prototypes is stolen in the final stages of research around the same time that Dr. Tokita's research assistant Himuro goes missing, Atsuko suspects it's not a coincidence. If the DC-Mini isn't found, this could lead to the government's refusal to sanction the use of the machine for psychotherapy treatment.
When several of the remaining researchers at the lab start to go mad, dreaming while in their waking states, haunted by a Japanese doll which featured heavily in the dreams of one of Himuro's schizophrenic patients, Atsuko knows for sure that whoever is manipulating the machines has a more evil purpose. The DC-Mini is being used to destroy people's minds.
There is a lot of reality-bending, and sometimes it was a little hard to tell what was real and what was not (they got me a few times). I know my mind has been ruined forever because I kept thinking how it would cross over remarkably well with Silent Hill. I will clearly never be sane again. I do not appear to care.
It was a good film, though! If I do actually get a call asking me to go see it, I will see it a second time and be happy about it.
The two bartenders are delightful! hee!