Research 4 - Paprika

Paprika is an anime movie made by Satoshi Kon (2010), know for his very unique movies such as Perfect Blue and Tokyo God Fathers. Paprika is focused around the concept of dreams, through the use of a  small invention dreams could be viewed and analysed by scientists however some of the dreams begin to overlap with reality causing people to appear to lose their minds. It follows Sachiko a psychiatric therapist/scientist (?) for the company creating the dream machine who uses an alter ego or sentient personality named Paprika to go into other dreams to help the best she can do.

The animation in the film is is clean and smooth but it then also goes into amazing detail with a massive amount of information and imagery being shown on screen. This is because of all the dreams overlapping and creating this massive parade which was like a visual dump of madness. Its a really intelligently planned film with its pacing and switching between multiple shots and scenes, especially in the dream sequences when it shifts between the fast paced action shots in one place to another.

Ive never considered conceptual ideas in my animations, I've always aimed for working to the brief or towards entertainment, this isn't to say Paprika isn't entertaining, far from it, its just that it takes on deeper meanings and considerations of subject matter and its genre.