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Just watched Paprika, and Satoshi Kon is such a great filmmaker, living up to the legacy of Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou. The way he’s able to maintain cinematic continuity (film logic) while fucking with our expectations.
Watching it gets me thinking of Inception, a movie I really enjoyed, but one that seems so focused on creating some kind of logical consistency at the expense of all else. I think that’s fine, it’s a valid and entertaining way of making a movie.
I just think that a lot of filmmakers could learn a lot from Kon or Buñuel. Especially today, audiences have such a mastery of film grammar without even realizing it, more films ought to play with our expectations and realities, bend us to their will using what we think we know.
I absolutely love the scene in Paprika where the detective talks about why you never cross the continuity line. The film does not break film law, it uses these laws to break reality.
