The Beauty of Surrealism in Paprika

Rest in Peace Legend

This has to be one of the best anime films I've seen in years, one that I'll definitely re-watch again

Unpopular opinion from a kid born in 2005: despite Paprika surpassing all the new movies or the ones I grew up with as my favorite movie, Evangelion is still just okay, DiTF is better and Gurren Lagann really do be on Toppa all yo Tengen

David Lynch Would have masturbated seeing paprika tbh.

Its like taking lsd while watching inception

I interpret the dreaming kids as Tokida, Chiba, and Osanai. This is a bit fraught, but I think of it that way because it also ties together with the kid Dr. Chiba we see at the very end.

Unrelated: the book is really different and isn't a as character-driven, but definitely a more grounded exploration of the concepts.

Watched Paprika on shrooms I thought I understood the bigger picture of the movie but then it ended and I was like wtf.

Am I the only one having a crush on Moiro Osanai?

i remember my dad showing me this movie when i was like 8 or 9, i had absolutely no clue what was going

Paprika, that's why I love surrealism

Great video.

Очень интересное видео, спасибо

Anyone else notice the haunting irony in that the Detective's high school film friend was an extremely well liked and tallented film maker who died at a young age of, I believe cancer... only for Satoshi Kon to die 4 years after the movie's release, also of cancer?

Awesome video!

I don’t even know what I watch tbh I just want to know what was going on

I had to watch this movie 4 times before I truely got it. I just watched it for the 5th time...and it made me cry. It is so so so so good. 100 stars out of 5. I hate the chairman...but I would love everyone's dreams and reality to merge into one. Chaotic beauty. In my screwed up mind...heaven. Long live your dreams.

One of the few anime films in which I prefer the English dub.

People who say Inception was complex would lose there mind after seeing Paprika

Inception can be understand, but paprika can't

This movie is one of my all time favorite Childhood memories. The Visuals along with the Music captivated me for years after. Perfect in every way.

For me, Paprika's last 10-15 minutes will always remind me of one thing: love (for a person or your own work) can originate in fiction (i.e dreams), but love itself can save you from the delirium of your worst nightmares.

Paprika was an amazing experience

One of the best video essays I've seen honestly. Great work!

Great video 👍

So many commercials, couldn't finish it

I actually started shipping Atsuko and Tokita early on and I was sure that Konakawa will end with Atsuko but I was screaming so happily when that hug scene came T_T it was truly a beautiful movie!

The pacing in this movie was just too much for me to wrap my head around so much I couldn't enjoy it. So here I am in a video essay about it😆

I still thought he was a fat slob..

nolan could never

i was so suprised when they set up a romance with chiba and tokito! pleasently so! you barely ever see conventionally "ugly" people set up in romances, and when it is done its usually played off as a joke or bad or something. the movie doesnt shy away from the fact that tokita is obese, and hes shown eating a lot and other people chiding him for doing so. but this is never really portrayed as a reason to hate or dislike him in the film. like, yes his obesity is apparent, but hes shown as just as much of a person as all the other characters. and that scene with him and chiba in the end made me so emotional and happy! chiba talked to him fondly and a little nagging, but in a caring way. it shows that people like tokita can and are loved, and deserve/ are capable of it. his weight is never the subject of a joke, only really brought up in light teasing and worried remarks from others. the same goes for hana in tokyo godfathers. doesnt shy away from the reality of being a trans woman, especially a homeless one (i enjoy a lot of representations of trans people today but a lot of them are seen with rose colored glasses. which is fine, trans people are definetly capable of living happy lives, but its nice to see another very real narritive. shes given a real character with both good and bad traits, dreams, and hardships she must face like any other person. i love satoshi for both his amazibg works and his ability to portray many people, regardless of who they are and what stereotypes that might be pushed upon them, as real people who are just as real as anyobe else

Wonderful video👍

Ah I finally found the movie that’s gave me those weird dreams since I was 8

I never had any movie just make me love film and the stories we can tell so much. It really felt like a revelation in every aspect working in tandem to talk about dreams, aspirations and telling those dreams in film.

this movie is better on a tab of lsd

Rest in peace Satoshi Kon

Paprika in hungarian meens peper you know the vegtable

Love that someone made a video of my favorite anime film of all time

Great video! I still wonder why none of my friends put this movie on their watchlist when I recommend. This video might persuade them. Thank you so much. Subscribed.

"Paprika" is one of the best sci-fi films ever made, together with "Living in Oblivion" it is also one of the best films ever made on the topic of dreams, and together with "Dark City" it surely is one of the best films ever made on the topic of identity, illusion and/or reality of personality. All three movies are very self-aware of the language of film and its similarity to dream logic. There is a meta level inherent to them; hence the mundane (everyday aspirations, inspirations and reflections) become surreal (dreamy & nightmarish visions) and the surreal becomes hyperreal (as the lines between form and function, utopia/dystopia and blueprints of reality begin to blur), these films (while being philosophical at the core) become larger-than-life visions of life on the screen.

Excellent review and breakdown analysis of this movie. Well done.

Hmm not quite. I wouldn't describe Paprika as a fundamentally 'Surrealist' work. It certainly contains surrealist imagery, but there is a coherent narrative throughout that is completely at odds with the nonsensical focus of surrealist art, which often arises out of an 'automatic' conceptual approach that seeks to 'unmask' the artist's unconscious. Secondly, the 'Real' world and the 'unreal' dream world are clearly demarcated in the film, to the extent that they are able to begin to 'merge' (hence suggesting their prior separation) towards the end of the film. In fact, the film ends with Paprika rescuing the Real from the Chairman's expanding dreamworld. Thus the film ends in a state that denies the aesthetic framework of surrealism a space in which it might appear.

I think you've missed the mark here. Might I suggest that a better approach to understanding this film would be to look at it through the lens of Baudrillard's concept of hyperreality? Then the film becomes very fascinating indeed.

Paprika's dreamlike setup made me tear up from the pure beauty of the intro alone. It's such a weird movie that ultimately goes nowhere in the end but it still (or because of that) is such a magical, pleasant experience.
I only ever watched this movie because Susumu Hirasawa was credited with the soundtrack and I immediately fell in love with it. After I then found out that the director had died a few years back, I was absolutely devastated. It's a genuine shame to see the work of someone so hopeful and positive and then find out that you can't ever thank that person for brightening your life.
But I still want to thank him dearly. So here's to Satoshi Kon, a man who loved deeply!

Hey, man, could you possibly make a video on Perfect Blue? There is a lot to say about that film.

Btw, great video.