I’ll be unpacking this for the rest of my life. ….PAPRIKA IS THAT GIRL. I watched this, then read the plot summery, and then basically watched it all over again.
Brilliant meditation on the ways we escape reality - whether through dreams, films, the internet - and how damaging that can be in excess. I was hoping Konakawa’s backstory would tie into the main plot somehow, but ultimately it speaks to the larger theme of connecting with suppressed, unconscious emotions…
