Paprika

Last night we watched the anime film “Paprika”. The concept sounded pretty cool. A device has been made so that people can enter other people’s dreams and they can be used to help cure diseases or for therapy. Someone has stolen the device so that all dreams merge together causing chaos and destruction in the natural world. Parpika, the alter ego of a scientist, is on a mission to retrieve the stolen apparatus and restore the natural order of things. Pretty interesting so far, right?

The movie was impossible for me to follow. And perhaps it was because I was mildly paying attention, but even so, with the use of subtitles it was very convoluted. Nothing in the movie made sense and trying to connect the dots was impossible. The ending made zero sense even in that abstract way of thinking.

I’ve always thought that dreams and sci-fi mix well together.  Since how and why dreams happen is still a mystery, it’s easy to mold it into just about anything your imagination wants it to be.  But here in the movie, it feels like a random array of thoughts thrown together and then drawn into animation.