His nightmares are the direct result of these repressed feelings, manifesting in stylistic, big-screen-like adventures. If he rejects cinema, he can reject his past and thus avoid the negative feelings that have mounted within him over the years. Konakawa’s denial of cinema is a byproduct of guilt. He has a pain point he refuses to confront: his failure to become a filmmaker with his, now-deceased, former best friend. For Inui, it’s the ability to walk again. Think back to Inui and Chiba and how each of them found empowerment through dreams. With that said, Konakawa is incredibly important to Paprika‘s core theme. So if you’re trying to just understand the events in Paprika, you can kind of ignore everything involving Konakawa. If he does or doesn’t, Inui’s and Chiba’s actions remain the same. To be clear, nothing in the main plot depends on Konakawa solving the homicide in the hallway or uncovering the cause of his nightmare. As someone may think Konakawa’s story is more important than it is. This can be, on the first watch, confusing. But it also puts a lot of importance on the unsolved homicide and Konakawa’s recurring nightmare. That opening sequence shows off the power of the DCM2 and sets up the duality of Paprika/Chiba. Meaning that, initially, he’s more of the focus than Paprika, who is simply guiding Konakawa through dream therapy. Narratively, it’s pretty misleading, as Konakawa begins the movie. Now let’s look at Detective Konakawa’s subplot. Detective Konakawa’s hallway mystery party Chiba’s true self transcends the Chairman’s delusion. Thankfully, the reborn Chiba/Paprika hybrid eats Inui’s nightmare form, proving the power of her transformation over his. Both our hero and villain have broken through their limitations.
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At the same time Inui reaches his final form and is reborn, Chiba and Paprika become one and cycle through their own rebirth-infant to child to teen to young woman to full adult.
A byproduct of Inui’s conspiracy is the tearing down of the veil that had kept Paprika and Chiba apart. But the division represents her inability to feel her emotions. Where Inui desires nothing more than to replace his real self with his dream self, Chiba has no such desire. Paprika director Satoshi Kon expresses this duality in the juxtaposition between Chiba and Paprika. The meaning of the monstrous parade that’s intruding across dreams.Ĭhiba is similar to Inui in that she’s freer in dreams than she is in reality. We watch Chiba and the others struggle to figure out why one teammate jumps out a window. Chiba and the others on the DC Mini project have no idea what Inui’s doing, so neither does the viewer. Which is why the beginning of Inui’s plot plays out like a mystery. We view almost everything through her POV. While Inui’s villainy drives the story of Paprika, we follow Atsuko Chiba. Sony Pictures Sony Pictures Atsuko Chiba and Paprika: the ‘you’ you hide Then reborn in his final, giant nightmare form, legs completely functional. That way he can transcend the limits of his handicap. But, in actuality, he wants to transform reality into a dream. He gives a big speech about trying to protect the dream world from the intrusion of the DC Mini and all it entails. Inui is wheelchair-bound and has relied on dreams as a kind of sanctuary. It’s through the DCM2 that our bad guy, Chairman Inui, wreaks havoc. But the still-in-progress DC Mini 2.0 lets you experience someone else’s dreams. The DC Mini 1.0 lets you watch someone else’s dreams. It becomes more convoluted because the technology involves dreams and shared dreaming and the merging of dreams and reality. If we boil it down, Paprika is simply: a bad guy uses technology in an attempt to take over the world but is defeated. Chairman Inui dastardly plan: dreams and reality merge
Once you separate these three threads, Paprika is far more approachable. And third, we have the subplot involving Detective Konakawa. Second, there’s Atsuko Chiba’s personal story. First, there’s what’s happening and why it’s happening.
To understand Paprika, we need to sort a few things out.
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