| I know it's called Paprika but that's about it. Can somebody please explain this movie to me? http://myanimelist.net/anime/1943/Paprika |
RandomPerson4Dec 30, 2012 1:55 AM
WildCatTomo said: A link would be nice. Look at me! I can't enter 8 keystrokes and click ONCE! |
Noinochi said: WildCatTomo said: A link would be nice. Look at me! I can't enter 8 keystrokes and click ONCE! LOL somebody's in a bad mood. :D |
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Noinochi said: WildCatTomo said: A link would be nice. Look at me! I can't enter 8 keystrokes and click ONCE! The funny part is it might've taken more effort to type that then actually look it up himself. |
| If you don't know, then you're too young to ask. |
| What do you think you're piloting? Great Mazinger? Dangaioh? For Pete's sake, this isn't some robot cartoon whose main character is an autistic kid or some punk. - Kiichi Goto, Mobile Police Patlabor |
RandomPerson2 said: http://myanimelist.net/anime/1943/Paprika Everybody calm your tits. |
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NexusHanzer said: One of my favorite animated films, and the last great picture by Satoshi Kon. Paprika is animation as dream. A melting pot of thought processes and identities hidden deep within the human mind, just waiting to be put into fruition. It is a film that proves the unlimited potential behind what people can do with their imaginations, putting every absurd piece of character onto paper, a computer, a piece of celluloid acetate, and even a 35mm projection, 4K Scanner, or a Technicolor printing. It is a playful presentation of a medium. tl;dr, 2deep4u |
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| Are u still discussing about the film? or arguing about the other? Well... About the film...I really liked, but I need to agree with some reviews...It wasn't a masterpiece, it should be divided in two movies, for character development. Well, maybe it was just a dream, maybe it wasn't... |
toybox said: If you don't know, then you're too young to ask. Otaku - searching Hidden Deep Meanings where is none. |
kitsune0Jun 3, 2013 7:10 AM
There is such thing as shit taste. Only idiots think that every "work of art" should have the same value. Oil and nuclear are civilisation saviours. Deal with it. |
| I don't see what there was to misunderstand, watch it again but pay attention this time xD I'm not saying there is some massive deep meaning, just saying that if you don't have a clue what happened, then you probably werent paying attention. Wasn't hard to follow imo. |
| Does anyone else need a doctor to confirm that someone without a head is dead? |
| I thought the movie was absolutely fantastic! However I did feel like the plot drifted a bit but not so much that I did not understand the movie. Thankfully though the animations and soundtrack were so good the plot did not matter at those points. |
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| People who automatically dismiss things like this with words like wtf did I just watch don't deserve anything |
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| People who judge others by their opinions about cartoons don't deserve a privilege to voice their own opinions. |
| There is such thing as shit taste. Only idiots think that every "work of art" should have the same value. Oil and nuclear are civilisation saviours. Deal with it. |
| This movie sucked. Throwing bullshit at the the audience and saying "BUT DREAM SO GOES ANYTHING!!!" doesn't cut it. Nothing was explored in depth. The visuals were nice, though: I liked how the dreams flowed together from scene to scene. |
| Those who don't make an effort to learn about the movie's messages and then ask for the answer are just plain lazy. If you want to learn about the movie, go look for yourself, or if you have tried hard to find some answers but still don't get it, read the wiki: http://satoshikon.wikia.com/wiki/Paprika A lot of people dismiss the movie as 'awful' due to the meaning of the movie not laid out in bold writing for them. Just because you don't understand the movie or if you don't like the fact it has a deep meaning in the first place, doesn't mean it was bad. kitsune0 said: People who judge others by their opinions about cartoons don't deserve a privilege to voice their own opinions. If you're talking about what 'renders' said, then I don't think that's what they meant at all, I think what they meant was exactly what I said, if you don't put an effort into it, you don't deserve to be told the meaning of the movie if you won't care too much about it. |
| there was a hole in the plot... litterally. |
| Final Fantasy VII is a shitty game. |
Hollow-Oak said: A lot of people dismiss the movie as 'awful' due to the meaning of the movie not laid out in bold writing for them. Just because you don't understand the movie or if you don't like the fact it has a deep meaning in the first place, doesn't mean it was bad. I've noticed the same trend with a lot of similar anime that are more difficult to understand (Kyousougiga, Paranoia Agent, Kekkai Sensen's ending e.g.). If someone does not understand it usually means it must suck, which is really sad... Tbh Paprika is not my favorite work of Satoshi Kon. It's actually quite easy to understand, unlike his other works (Paranoia Agent, Perfect Blue) and it's a lot more about showcasing how to merge reality with fiction animation-wise. That is to say I still enjoyed watching it so much more than a lot of other movies..^^' |
kitsune0 said: Amazing, I learned something new today :D wonderful jajaja.toybox said: If you don't know, then you're too young to ask. Otaku - searching Hidden Deep Meanings where is none. renders said: This is a new level of edgy/2deep4uPeople who automatically dismiss things like this with words like wtf did I just watch don't deserve anything |
SomeRandomBloke said: Everyone be talking about how they understood everything and anyone who doesn't is not mature enough to watch this show, but they themselves won't provide a proper explanation of what it was actually trying to convey or even provide a relevant article explaining the show (and wiki articles just regurgitating what happened in the show doesn't count btw). So, like do we have to an entire PhD course under your mentorship to get an explanation out of you guys or something? Sksksksksk don't go there. You know MAL users like to pretend they're more intelligent than they really are lmfao |
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| It was a dream. They never make sense. It was fun trip. Though my dreams just involve being in public in various stages of undress. Sigh. |
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Everyone be talking about how they understood everything and anyone who doesn't is not mature enough to watch this show, but they themselves won't provide a proper explanation of what it was actually trying to convey or even provide a relevant article explaining the show (and wiki articles just regurgitating what happened in the show doesn't count btw). So, like do we have to an entire PhD course under your mentorship to get an explanation out of you guys or something?
| @SomeRandomBloke the truth is, the movie was simply not good. Though some people liked this trash, so they cope by claiming that everyone else is too stupid to understand it. The movie isn't hard to understand, when you basically split it in two movies. The officer guy, Konakawa I believe is his name, basically felt guilty that he was jealous of his friend and ending up abandoning their movie. His friend later died, and due to his guilt of the unfinished movie, his mind projected that it was a murder. So he's constantly chasing after the murderer, but in truth the "murderer" is a metaphor of his guilt never going away. Once he was able to move on from the death of his friend, the "movie" (his dream) was finally complete. The rest is basically the guy in the wheel chair teaming up with the brown haired guy that's jealous of morbidly obese fat ass, Tokita is his name, and has a crush on the MC. The dork and the guy in the wheel chair work together, with the guy in the wheel chair getting the dork's body. Also, another fat guy was close friends with Tokita, but they get depressed because they have a crush on the dork that likes the MC. They have gender dysmorphia because they realize that the dork doesn't return their affection due to them not being an attractive girl. That's why they were always wearing girly clothing and being portrayed as a doll. The MC, not Paprika, likes the Tokita for being smart I guess, which is pretty much the only decent thing about him. It's a self-insert, so a morbidly obese fat ass that's lazy, childish, greedy, and a butt monkey has to end up with an attractive and intelligent woman that everyone else likes. Such a woman can never end up with someone cool, like Konakawa. The problem is, not Paprika, basically projects herself into the dream as Paprika. Yeah, Paprika is basically the MC, but actually interesting. The ending was basically them beating the guy in the wheelchair, who was basically just the grandpa and his ex friend from the Spy Kids: Gameover movie, but they were combined in this one. And not Paprika finally confesses to the whale that she has a crush on him. They become endgame, despite them basically having the chemistry of a person who begrudgingly tolerates an annoying coworker that's good at their job. Oh, and there was an old man that was their coworker. I mean, only Konakawa and Paprika are good characters. Tokita is just a disgusting character with no redeeming qualities. Though I will give him some credit, he's at least bad and gross enough for me to remember his name. Can't say the same for the nothing characters. I could analyze it deeper and catch things that I missed. Maybe have a better understanding of the movie. And it would still be bad. Konakawa's subplot was interesting, the rest of the movie not so much. |
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