Both Paprika and Inception are the kind of films telling the relationship between reality and dreams. Also, Kon Satoshi and Christopher Nolan are both well-known directors with a large number of fans. However, Paprika was produced four years earlier than Inception, which, in my opinion, also has the content with deeper and more complex thought.
Inception is mainly about the demons story of the character which was played by Leonardo DiCaprio. It is a really simple and clear film that can be classified into gangster movies on the whole.
While, in Paprika, almost every characters are attracted and affected by nightmare. A variety of designs of “dreams within dreams” even confuse audience, making them feel unreal and excited. Having several similar scenarios in two films, it becomes easier to conduct comparison analysis.
In order to make development in psychotherapy treatment, the institution in Tokyo has invented a device called the “DC Mini”, which can reflect people’s dreams. With the assistance of DC Mini, users can view patients’ dreams through monitors. Unfortunately, three sets of the device was stolen. Even worse, the related researchers had suffered a lot pain due to …show more content…
Also, Inception had used the same unreal start to guide audience into a fiction atmosphere. Besides, both of them has a detailed explanation over the method of entering the unreal dream world – DC Mini in Paprika and the dream machine in Inception. Nevertheless, at the ending climax, two movies used absolutely different design of final scene to achieve their own imagination. In Paprika, with a newborn baby “Paprika” sucking up the evil chairman, the universal value that “justice will eventually prevail against evil” was spread to the audience. While, Inception used the fifth level of dreams to make audience feel the magic of time and even shocked the audience by the emotion between characters in the sixth final
Inception is mainly about the demons story of the character which was played by Leonardo DiCaprio. It is a really simple and clear film that can be classified into gangster movies on the whole.
While, in Paprika, almost every characters are attracted and affected by nightmare. A variety of designs of “dreams within dreams” even confuse audience, making them feel unreal and excited. Having several similar scenarios in two films, it becomes easier to conduct comparison analysis.
In order to make development in psychotherapy treatment, the institution in Tokyo has invented a device called the “DC Mini”, which can reflect people’s dreams. With the assistance of DC Mini, users can view patients’ dreams through monitors. Unfortunately, three sets of the device was stolen. Even worse, the related researchers had suffered a lot pain due to …show more content…
Also, Inception had used the same unreal start to guide audience into a fiction atmosphere. Besides, both of them has a detailed explanation over the method of entering the unreal dream world – DC Mini in Paprika and the dream machine in Inception. Nevertheless, at the ending climax, two movies used absolutely different design of final scene to achieve their own imagination. In Paprika, with a newborn baby “Paprika” sucking up the evil chairman, the universal value that “justice will eventually prevail against evil” was spread to the audience. While, Inception used the fifth level of dreams to make audience feel the magic of time and even shocked the audience by the emotion between characters in the sixth final