>
> BTW, Jerry Beck's observations of Paprika fascinatingly mirror Manohla
> Dargis'. Both saw the film and waxed rhapsodic about the
> possibilities of animation being exercised by Japanese filmmakers, as
> opposed to the creative straitjacket that suffocates American
> commercial endeavors in 2D animation:
>
> "The Japanese continue to advance the possibilities of animation in
> the feature film arena. They seem undisturbed by the CG/Mo-Cap
> blockbuster-mentality that Hollywood has embraced"