The atmosphere of the entire movie is so weird that the audiences may not have enough patience to finish viewing it. However, if you put some time in, you'd understand(at least partially) about the message the director would tell us.
Paprika is a mystical woman in dream world, who has the ability to enter people's dreams and investigate them in any form of being out of thousands of selections. Is she a real person, or an alternative personality of another female character Chiba? All these are in a dim until the climate of the movie. The director, who directed another masterpiece Millennium Actress is definitely amazing in creating weird environment and set decoration. This movie is made for grown-ups, not for children because of horrifying scenes and some explicit nudity ,which is unusual in main stream cartoons. Through all the strange lines and lyrics in the dreams, people may either be inspired or be horrified.
Honestly, I was so horrified that I cannot speak a word as I finished watching the movie. My interpretation is that, this movie is a fable about human race's future, a prophecy more specific and explicit than Matrix. In the last scene of the movie, the woman triumphed over man by eating him. And when the world is in peace again, the woman was the only one who dared to stand in the ruins. The whole idea just scared me.
But, for the reason that the movie is so stylized and beautiful, I give it a 7.
Paprika is a mystical woman in dream world, who has the ability to enter people's dreams and investigate them in any form of being out of thousands of selections. Is she a real person, or an alternative personality of another female character Chiba? All these are in a dim until the climate of the movie. The director, who directed another masterpiece Millennium Actress is definitely amazing in creating weird environment and set decoration. This movie is made for grown-ups, not for children because of horrifying scenes and some explicit nudity ,which is unusual in main stream cartoons. Through all the strange lines and lyrics in the dreams, people may either be inspired or be horrified.
Honestly, I was so horrified that I cannot speak a word as I finished watching the movie. My interpretation is that, this movie is a fable about human race's future, a prophecy more specific and explicit than Matrix. In the last scene of the movie, the woman triumphed over man by eating him. And when the world is in peace again, the woman was the only one who dared to stand in the ruins. The whole idea just scared me.
But, for the reason that the movie is so stylized and beautiful, I give it a 7.