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Paprika | anime at its gloomy futuristic best
The Japanese have an odd obsession with "the future" (hello, robots!) -- anime storylines often portray the coming doom --Princess Mononoke (ecology), Akira (nuclear destruction), Ghost in the Shell (cyborgs), etc -- and sure enough they keep cranking them out...including the new anime film PAPRIKA (opening in North America this month) about dream manipulation in the near future.
Synopsis: "29-year-old Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a Japanese research psychotherapist whose work is on the cutting edge of her field. Her alter-ego is a stunning and fearless 18-year-old 'dream detective,' codenamed Paprika, who can enter into people's dreams and synchronize with their unconscious to help uncover the source of their anxiety or neurosis.
At Atsuko's lab, a powerful new psychotherapy device known as the 'DC-MINI' has been invented by her colleague, Dr. Tokita, a nerdy overweight genius. Although this device could revolutionize the world of psychotherapy, in the wrong hands the potential misuse of the device could be devastating, allowing the user to completely annihilate the dreamer's personality while they are asleep.
When one of the only four existing DC-MINI prototypes is stolen in the final stages of research around the same time that Dr. Tokita's research assistant Himuro goes missing, Atsuko suspects it's not a coincidence...." (dun dun dun)....
Paprika MySpace @ http://www.myspace.com/paprikamovie
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Posted by TamikoJune 17, 2007 at 8:29 PM
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