Three scientists at the Foundation for Psychiatric Research fail to secure a device they've invented, the D.C. Mini, which allows people to record and watch their dreams. A thief uses the device to enter people's minds, when awake, and distract them with their own dreams and those of others. Chaos ensues. The trio - Chiba, Tokita, and Shima - assisted by a police inspector and by a sprite named Paprika must try to identify the thief as they ward off the thief's attacks on the... (Full plot summary below)
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Three scientists at the Foundation for Psychiatric Research fail to secure a device they've invented, the D.C. Mini, which allows people to record and watch their dreams. A thief uses the device to enter people's minds, when awake, and distract them with their own dreams and those of others. Chaos ensues. The trio - Chiba, Tokita, and Shima - assisted by a police inspector and by a sprite named Paprika must try to identify the thief as they ward off the thief's attacks on their own psyches. Dreams, reality, and the movies merge, while characters question the limits of science and the wisdom of Big Brother.
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| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawThis is how post-modernism should always behave: like an acid trip narrated by Derrida. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeSimply the most refreshing piece of cinema I've seen this year. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenIt happens to be one of the most wildly (and disturbingly) inventive animated films I've seen. |
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternSatoshi Kon, whose previous film was the remarkable "Tokyo Godfathers," uses the complex plot as a pretext for joyous psychedelia. |
| Newark Star-LedgerStephen WhittyThe anything-goes dream logic is confusing, and the question of why, late in the game, the nighttime fantasies start becoming real, is left mostly unexplained. |
| StarburstScott ClarkYes, Paprika is a masterpiece. The animation medium lends itself so perfectly to dream capers that it's no wonder Kon's final film is regarded a perfect marriage of form and subject. |
| Projected FiguresAnton BitelIts Inception-inspiring premise of a young woman who can expertly dive into other people's dreams fully exploits the fluid, plastic capacities of animation to realise an ever-shifting, unstable world ruled by arbitrariness and id |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerGianni TruzziDespite the jumble, Kon's eye-popping, surreal mastery of the Japanese dream is awakening. |
| The New York TimesManohla DargisA gorgeous riot of future-shock ideas and brightly animated imagery, the doors of perception never close. |
| PremiereAaron HillisPaprika ain't no kiddie 'toon, even if its thumpin' techno-pop and bubble-gum thrills have the same splashy palette as an episode of "Pokémon" or "Dragon Ball Z." |
