Review animation film: Paprika

Paprika

The first time I heard of this film was before his release in the Sitges festival in Spain. For what I heard from there the film was masterpiece.

At the moment I saw the movie for the first time I had the feeling I wasn't hable to understand the plot of the film, I was simply enjoying the animation. But it was only until I started to be interested with the japanese animations and the language that instandly almost everything in the film started to make sense.

From a basic perception of the topic, looks like some characters develop a method to go insidde the dreams of the people for therapy methods, but that turns out when someone steals one of the devices, and precedes to an investigation.

The interesting fact about that is how the dreams and reality are mixed together and we are able to see a lot of different alternative realities of different characters.

Through a lot of scenes i manage to get some ironies like when the polititians suddenly transforms to a decorative objects with the words gold. Or when the bussinesman (shain) jumps over the edge of the skycrapers a clear critic to sort of japanese procedure in cases of depression for jobb issues. There are more criticism to the woman stereotype and a lot of analogies with the cuture.

Besides all that the movie it's still a movie trying to reach alll the content of and entire serie and ends up being confusing with the ammount of information.

I have seen the movie in english and japanese. Have to say that the original version it's always better. In the case of the voices, a lot of them are clearly inverosymil in japenese making a almost impossible character with different precence, as it's different in english.

Hard to see and understand for viewers with no experience in anime.