Paprika

Whoa what a film. I had pestered to watch it for quite sometime now but due to lack of time I simply never got around around to it. But as I believe I have stated before, half of animation should really be watching stuff, and not just animation, movies and TV shows in general. Because you shouldn't limit yourself to just animated movies because there are certain aspects of animation filmmaking that heavily crossover into live action and Paprika is a prime example of exactly that.

For example, when I watched the film of course I really loved it, although it did ruin the film Inception for me slightly.

So the above images should be enough to show how totally inspired Christopher Nolan was by this film when making Inception. Now, even though they cover similar themes, I must say I found Paprika to be way more enjoyable, now is this down to Paprika being an animated film or is this to do with the film's narrative? That I don't know. But Paprika succeeds for me in ways that are far beyond its visual aesthetic which is what I went into the film expecting to get.

Well the film's visuals are need I mention spectacular, but for me I found the experience of Paprika so enjoyable for many other factors. Firstly because watching Paprika is precisely that, an experience. The narrative confused me at times but to me I was not too fussed about understanding everything that was happening, I was pretty much happy to just go with it. There was never a moment I was even slightly bored, from the very first minute we as the viewer are launched threw a cannon into this bizarre amazing world. Coming out of the film I felt like I had just had an amazing dream, of course I was slightly knackered and didn't have too much desire to see it again immediately although this is a film you can watch again and again. Furthermore the characters are really good and when the film ended I was actually sad to leave them behind.