Week Eleven: Cyberpunk and Steam Punk

I watched Paprika this week, it is one of my favorite animated film directed by Satoshi Kon. Satoshi is also one of my favorite director, I love all his works, it is so pity he passed away in such a young age. Memories, Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paranoia Agent and Paprika are all amazing works, I really recommend them to everyone.

In Paprika, a gorgeous riot of future-shock ideas and brightly animated imagery, the doors of perception never close. A mind-twisting, eye-tickling wonder, this anime bears little relation to the greasy, sticky kid stuff that Hollywood churns out, those fatuous fables with wisecracking woodland creatures selling lessons in how to be a good child so you can grow up to be a good citizen. Model behavior isn’t on the menu in Paprika, and neither are dinky songs and visuals. Here, when a woman sprouts a pair of wings, she doesn’t only flit about like Tinker Bell; she’s also pinned captive to a table, a man’s hand slithering under her skin.

This is not an animation that made for children, it is made completely for adults viewers.