paprika

Satoshi Kon, the creator of classic animes like Perfect Blue and Millennium Actress and the strangely beautiful series Paranoia Agent has released a new movie called Paprika. It explores similar themes as his earlier movies. The subconscious, dreams, myths, movies and their influence on our lives. The animation is beautiful and the script is well written and thought provoking. Sometimes I think about Jeff Noons books about the drug Vurt. In those books dreams, myths and peoples subconscious seems to invade reality in the same way as in this movie. This is intelligent grown-up anime that's light years ahead of most western animated movies.