Paprika

[wolven7]

Einstürzende Neubauten - [Wüste]--- I had no real driving urge to see this film, but I am very glad that I did. If you liked Lain, House of Leaves, The Sandman, Akira, Neon Genesis Evangelion, or any number of other books, movies, shows or comics converning the provenance of dreams, then you must see this film. As soon as possible.

I got about 5 broken hours of sleep, last night, and that movie made me feel like it was none. For the last four days. With caffeine pills.

Dear Jesus. And the Soundtrack! Gah!

Rolfe Kent - [Spanish Epilogue Revisited]--- Great film... Need to see it about 10 more times..

Comments

[bluesummers.livejournal.com]

Paprika is probably Satoshi Kon's finest film, but his others are also very good. Seen any of them?

[bluesummers.livejournal.com]

Also, regarding the soundtrack: Yeah, Hirasawa Susumu is pretty much amazing.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Precisely.

[bluesummers.livejournal.com]

Do you have/want the soundtrack? I could upload it somewhere sometime tomorrow if you'd like.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I would certainly like it, yes please.

[bluesummers.livejournal.com]

Here you go (http://johnnylandmine.com/magic/Paprika%20OST.zip), but give it an hour or so to finish uploading, since my connection is inexplicably slow right now and I just started uploading before posting this.

I put it on my personal webspace rather than an upload service mostly for convenience, so bandwidth might be a little tight, and I'll probably take it down in a few days, if I remember to. Unfortunately I lost the scan I had once of the liner notes that included the lyrics and translation for "Parade," which I recall being fascinating, but they can probably be found somewhere. I was a little disappointed that it doesn't include the chant of the people of the waking world as they run to join the parade, but that wasn't really "soundtrack," after all.

(Speaking of, I did a brief review of the film on my tragically-underused blog (http://www.johnnylandmine.com); now I realize I neglected to mention the soundtrack entirely. Whoops.)

[wolven.livejournal.com]

You truly are the King of Kings....

Seriously though, you kick total ass. Thanks, man.

[bluesummers.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. It's done uploading so it should be all-clear for downloading.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Awesomesauce. Thanks sir.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

First let me state: DAMN you fuckers replied fast...

And I saw most of Perfect Blue, but I need to see it subbed.

[bluesummers.livejournal.com]

Check out Millennium Actress, I think you'd dig it. He also did a TV series that I haven't seen yet, Paranoia Agent, that I hear is very good.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I heard good things about that one. And I totally forgot he did Paranoia Agent. That show is amazingly fucked up, and like a dry run for Paprika.

[draquani.livejournal.com]

Man, I've wanted to see this film since I heard about it. I just don't know if it's anywhere around that I can track down. Grr.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

First let me state: DAMN you fuckers replied fast...

Check your local art cinema. It's pretty awesome.

[bluesummers.livejournal.com]

Just be sure that when you do, you see it on the biggest screen you can manage, whether it's a movie theater, or if you just know a guy with a big TV.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

Loved the photography

[karishi.livejournal.com]

On the second viewing, I noticed that Oedipus and the Sphinx are on the walls of the room in the police station where the detective meets Chiba.
I also noticed that most of the distant shots of downtown Tokyo are photographs and video clips. Where better to blend real and imagined background?

Re: Loved the photography

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed the latter, all the way through. I really liked the uses of Dream images. I would have liked some non-visual travel, too, but that would have been... much harder to show, and may have taken away from the point of the film.