Paprika is a 1991 Italian film directed by Tinto Brass. The story follows the title character, a young girl who works as a prostitute in various brothels, losing any sense of self confidence and self-respect. But eventually she finds redemption, wealth and her one true love. The film is loosely based on John Cleland's Fanny Hill.
It was remade as an explicit porn film by Joe D'Amato in the mid-1990s.
A terminal illness comedy.
Randall is dying... to enforce parking.
Randall Zimmerman: Without parking enforcement, there would be complete chaos, and there's nothing worse than that.
Oli: You want to see assholes, try working in a sandwich shop.
Randall Zimmerman: Actually, we refer to ourselves as parking enforcement officers.
Randall Zimmerman: Professor Griffin, you're a very learned man.::Professor Griffin: Well, some might say that two masters and a Ph.D. constitute learned.
Jay: Sorry. I didn't realize I was giving a ride to the chief deputy of the noise patrol.
Randall Zimmerman: I got to work today, Jay. It's game day. People are parking all over the place.
Corinna: Those quack doctors. They ain't got nothing on a mother's love. You can't learn that in medical school.
Dr. Stiglets: Making love can be more than just an act of reproduction. So much more.
Randall Zimmerman: You know something? I think that this sandwich is the best part of my day.
Sasha: I don't think I'm reaching my full potential with Randall, if you know what I mean.::Dr. Stiglets: Full potential?::Sasha: I love him, but I don't lust him.
Plot
Three scientists at the Foundation for Psychiatric Research fail to secure a device they've invented, the D.C. Mini, which allows people to record and watch their dreams. A thief uses the device to enter people's minds, when awake, and distract them with their own dreams and those of others. Chaos ensues. The trio - Chiba, Tokita, and Shima - assisted by a police inspector and by a sprite named Paprika must try to identify the thief as they ward off the thief's attacks on their own psyches. Dreams, reality, and the movies merge, while characters question the limits of science and the wisdom of Big Brother.
Keywords: abuse, advertising, alter-ego, amusement-park, anime, apartment, arboretum, asperger's-syndrome, balcony, balloon
This is your brain on anime.
Paprika: Don't you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents.
[first lines]::Paprika: Time for the greatest show on earth!
Paprika: It seems you have quite a fondness for movies.::Detective Kogawa Toshimi: I don't really like movies all THAT much...
Tokita Kohsaku: I swallow everything.
[last lines]::Detective Kogawa Toshimi: One ticket, please.
Himuro Kei: The sun during midday will light up the dark night. Night dreams of day. Light dreams of darkness. But the ignorant sun will chase away the darkness... and burn the shadows, eventually burning itself! The shade of the tree with the flowers that bloom at night is where the residents of darkness rest. The people of daytime are not allowed!
Random Dolls: This is a foolish place to be... to inquire about the master of this dream. The conceit of the daytime residents is what the nighttime residents want. To come in carelessly is like a moth to a flame.
Plot
Joe is a serial apologist. Totally self-absorbed, he says "I'm sorry" so often, even he doesn't know what the words mean anymore--that is, until a female he tramples refuses his apology. Face to face with his own hypocrisy, he learns just how powerful sincerity can be.
Keywords: apology, chance-meeting, double-talk, insincere, meeting, metropolis, new-york-city, sorry, stranger
A serial apologist learns the true meaning of forgiveness.
[Steve is still sleeping]::Tickety Tock: [shouts at Steve] Wake up, Steve!::Steve: [still a little drowsy] Huh, what? [rubs his eyes]::Steve: [to the audience] Oh, it's you. You're here early.