I was surprised to see this as the second link under the newsweek section of the MSNBC homepage: An article largely centered around the Japanese anime movie Paprika.
Some choice quotes:
A few days later, with far less fanfare, “Paprika,” the work of Japanese animé master Satoshi Kon, will also be unveiled. It happens to be one of the most wildly (and disturbingly) inventive animated films I’ve seen, but will anyone notice?
And…
There’s no reason the imaginative freedom that animation allows shouldn’t be unleashed on adult themes, especially when graphic novels have entered the literary mainstream and when CGI has blurred the line between live action and animation in films like “300.” Outside the United States, animators are not so likely to be confined to the ghetto of kiddie movies. Think of the marvelously macabre French hand-drawn gem “The Triplets of Belleville,” or the work of the Czech director Jan Svankmajer (”Alice,” “Faust”). Or, most conspicuously, Japanese animé, which is as likely to be made for 30-year-olds as for tots.
Read the rest. One can’t feel anything but content when the same writer raises anime movies like Paprika above almost certain hits like Shrek the Third. Spirited Away also gets an obligatory mention.
