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Here are my picks for movie night! They are all animated movies by my favorite director, Satoshi Kon, who is known for blurring the lines between reality, dreams, and media. <p></p> Perfect Blue: Kon’s first film. A psychological horror film that follows Mina, a former pop idol’s entry into the acting world. As an anonymous stalker creeps closer to Mima, she is haunted by her past idol-self in a series of increasingly disturbing illusions. My favorite film of his. <p></p> Millennium Actress: Kon’s second, and most light-hearted film. A middle-aged reporter interviews a famous Golden Age actress at the end of her life. As she recounts her story, the fiction of her career and the reality of her own past blend together. This movie will make you go, “Oh, I get it…wait, what?” over and over. <p></p> Tokyo Godfathers: A standout work of Kon’s in that it does not explicitly deal with dreams or media. But the expert way he weaves multiple storylines into a narrative web is very illustrative of his style. The film follows three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo who find a baby in a dumpster on Christmas Eve. The three unlikely heroes set out on a mission to reunite the baby with her family. This was the first movie I ever saw with a trans character. <p></p> Paprika: Kon’s fourth and final film. Basically the blueprint for Inception but much better. A doctor who has created a new technology enters other people’s dreams as her alter-ego, Paprika. When a terrorist steals the technology, they rip holes in reality where the dream world begins to seep through. Very psychedelic.
by Tyler AustinCreated 3 days ago
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