Anodyne
Monday, June 25, 2007
 

To Satoshi Kon's Paprika, on S.'s recommendation. The filmic equivalent of one of Philip K. Dick's lesser novels (Ubik, say): lots of grating plot-points that make little or no sense, followed by completely jaw-dropping scenes like the above, full of drum-playing frogs, darumas, dancing maneki nekos, animatronic vending machines, & etc. Full-on visual postmodernism, packed with looping dream sequences, weird mirrorings, bondage symbolism, and complicated references to film history. And Paprika's repressed dayworld alter-ego, intellectu-goth Dr. Chiba, is smokin' hot.
- posted by cjb @ 9:36 AM


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