Cinema Strange is a series focused on the exploration of the strangest film has to offer. From the surreal, the abstract, the absurd, and the experimental, the culture of weird movies, although hidden from the public eye, has been expanding across generations and continents. So join Chris Hopkin as he attempts to show some of this both bizarre and beautiful world of cinema.
February's film is Paprika, a 2006 animated science fiction psychological thriller directed by Satoshi Kon. The film tells the story of a newly developed machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. The machine has the potential to revolutionize psychotherapy, but then a "dream terrorist" steals one of the devices, intending to use it to annihilate people's personalities and destroy their minds. It's up to research psychologist Dr. Atsuko Chiba and her dream world alter ego, the detective Paprika, to stop the villain.
This film has been rated R by the MPAA for violent and sexual images. Content warning: sexual assault.
Chris Hopkin is a Somerville High School junior equally passionate and pretentious about the arts. He especially enjoys music and film as well as history and philosophy and hopes to expand people's film prowess.
