Letterboxd — Your life in film

I think I need to write two reviews for paprika, to give it justice. One for the content of the dreams, and one for the bodies of the characters.
It begins:
This movie strikes me as being about the need for harmony between modernization and traditional belief. The collective dream of the parade begins with the refrigerator and the mailbox, but it continues with yokai and torii gates, intermixed with traditional symbols from at least three other countries: america, russia,…

so is Scarface just anti cuban propaganda?? idk enough to have an opinion but with an opening like this and the US's history of squamshing communist countries and how Cuba is talked about now I am incredulous.
you can't be gay but also you can't eat pussy. make it make sense!!!
like shit, Cubans rioting because they've all been forced into a prison camp under a bridge? and so they're the bad guys? and what, tony gets some form of…

journalism mixing with movies mixing with two classes of people.
the gift for finding stories that no one else has. two military mixings. air forces in the ground, ground forces in the air. a lot of exposition in the beginning, but it merges into little lives overshadowed by makhmalbaf and sabzian.
the best story on a dead end. how did he feel when he followed the family here? trapped in a short act?
this is all about taking places. there…

how old do you have to be to have sex? really, how old? freckles on your young shoulders. interactions that require physicality. bored with kissing. sorry child actors, sorry sorry. pink with sun. how old are they and the title tells me, kids.
baby doll girls shown nothing kindness they throw away. vhs schadenfreude.
so much around virginity. big moment when you're a kid. big moment anyway, but as a kid it's a chip, it's a sack, it's a hundred…