——"The Insect Master: Pillow Path"
is the same as the last time I watched "Hide and Seek", after watching Paprika, I immediately felt like vomiting. impulse.
Why is the theme of eccentricity always so appealing to me AhAhAh...(echo) I've always been incapable of flamboyance (with poetic and philosophical aftertastes), and if there's more mystery, then Teach me to be obsessed with the five bodies.
Since many people haven't seen the film yet, I won't give any spoilers here, just talk about the impression. Paprika is very reminiscent of Jin Min's previous works, such as "The House of Weima" and "Delusional Agent". It is the kind of gorgeousness like a ghost in the dark night. After a thrilling sleepwalking, I found that in a room covered with mirrors, the devil and the angel turned out to be me.
Dream-themed paprika continues the fine tradition of Kon's work. Just looking at it as the feast of the dream, the picture is rich enough, smooth and dense. It's really a super existential 2D animation! Whenever the parade of puppets and utensils marched along with the mighty music of Hirasawa Shinshin, I couldn't help but be overwhelmed; and that desolate and eerie playground also perfectly matched the scene in one of my nightmares!
The gorgeous three minutes at the beginning once made me think that it would be a story similar to "Millennium Actress", which shuttles between imagination and reality without any hindrance, showing admirable editing skills. In fact, the plot is quite a bit like Zhuang Zhou Mengdie: dream and non-dream, who enters who's dream, reality and surreal... The more entangled, the more fascinated you are. People who have read the original work think that the film is not as good as the movie, which is probably because it is relatively weak in the depiction of the deep consciousness of the characters, which lacks suspense and lacks rich layers. After all, due to the limited space, it is difficult for Paprika to lay out various clues within 90 minutes, and the whole story is more popular and bland because of the pursuit of completeness. For Jin Min, who is good at depicting spiritual activities, "the story is not complicated and profound" is a fatal flaw. However, even though the original work is considered "impossible to visualize", after watching the movie, I still believe that Toshi Kon is the right person to supervise this work, doesn't Tsutsui Yasushi think so too.
In general, Paprika still maintains the fine tradition of Jin Min's works. Dreams, delusions, and fictions are all inseparable themes, and they combine business elements such as beautiful girls, robots, and big fights. It can be regarded as a successful balance between art, business and thought. And at the cinema at the end of the film, when the camera passed the movie posters of "Weima's House", "Millennium Actress" and "Tokyo Godfather" in turn, Jin Min's works were also reunited in a warm atmosphere.
From the perspective of animated films, I am generous with this film; but as Jin Min's work, although some media praised it as "the highest masterpiece of Jin Min's supervision", at his level, I still greedily Looking forward to more, I think I prefer to see an unexpected No.1 ending, a dark humorous ending. Borrow the lines of the big boss in the play, because "dreams are infinite".
ps: Why is it called "paprika" (red pepper)? Paprika is a well-known spice for coloring, also known as "magic spice", and the girl codenamed paprika in the original book is a charismatic heartthrob character with feminine charm, perhaps with a meaning like "beautiful fairy" Bar? As for her red hair, of course, it is necessary to be a "red pepper".
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