Paprika

It's difficult to summarize a Satoshi Kon film, because there's so much to unpack. But I will give it a try. In brief, in a near-future where licensed psychologists can use technology to surf through another person's dreams and help them deal with their problems in the dreamscape, a young woman called Paprika is the alter-ego of the best dream-analyst in Japan. You see her begin a session with a client, and get an idea for how the system works... and then everything goes wrong the next day, as a rogue copy of the technology starts being used to force the people of the city into a perpetual... read more