In ancient Egyptian mythology, a dead person's soul would be weighed against the feather of truth in a ritual called a psychostasy. If their soul was lighter than the feather, it would ascend into the afterlife. Heavy souls were devoured by Maat, eater of the dead. Good films go to hard drive heaven while the recycle bin eats the rest.
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Friday, February 17, 2012
Paprika (2006)
A Japanese animated fantasy by Satosji Kon.
A dream sharing technological device has been stolen from the laboratory where it is being developed. A woman who works there has a heroic alter-ego named Paprika that she becomes in dreams and hallucinates in real life. One of the engineers is hospitalized and the other is extremely fat. There is also a cop working on a murder case who is involved with the dream device. It's complicated.
Oh yeah! This is a keeper! The plot is complex and intelligent and so are the characters. The animation style is pretty standard, but very good. There is even a Dragonball Z reference. This is one you need to see to understand how cool it is. I captured an image from the film and it's a little odd. The character has breasts, but no vagina, a classic anime omission. I'm rating it awesome.
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