Obviously the underlying concept was more important than the story told with it. It was beautiful to look at and made you want to linger a little longer.īut apart from that the movie does show weaknesses, especially when it comes to character and plot development which was all a little “been there, seen that”. The other great strength were The animation and general design, especially of the landscapes. I’m always a fan of thorough thought through and consequently applied ideas, so I really loved this.
Yoshiura explores all the different implications of the concept he created – from political and religious views that are shaped by this form of the world, to the shape of the world itself. But if you accept gravity as a pull in a certain direction a person is just born with, depending on the pull of the world they live in, then you’re all set to enjoy the film. It is clear that you’ll have to shelve any scientific knowledge about what gravity is before you go into the film otherwise it won’t work at all. It’s not the best film I’ve ever seen (what would that even be), but it is very good. Sakasama no Patema wraps a classic story into an interesting and elaborate concept with beautiful images. But how was their world separated like this? And where can they go from there? When she does finally make it there, she meets Age (Nobuhiko Okamoto) who helps her stay literally grounded since, as a topsider, Patema’s underground world is the eternal drop and the sky is above for him.
Only that topside, gravity is reversed, so for Patema leaving the underground is an eternal fall into the sky.
Patema (Yukiyo Fujii) lives underground but she is not satisfied with staying there – she wants to explore the rest of the world. Patema Inverted is part of the Next Gen program and has school screenings on Wednesday 13 August at 11am and Friday 15 August 1.30 at ACMI and Saturday August 16 at 1:30pm at Hoyts.Cast: Yukiyo Fujii, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Shintarô Oohata But as long as I don’t get too caught up in that, I can enjoy it for what it is a delightful tale. Some of the ‘science’ of the film was a bit lost on me – I think if I were asked to explain it in detail, I would get very confused and find some parts to be superfluous even thought they may be crucial. Some survived and went underground, and in both communities, there are many lies and secrets that are intended to protect the population lies and secrets that need to be challenged and exposed.Įssentially, this is a story of friendship and love, family and community and hope. An experiment to attempt to obtain power from gravity years previously went terribly wrong, and many people floated off into the air. When she does, she finds a world where she is inverted – literally. But she is an explorer and wants to get away. Patema lives in an underground world, the only world she knows.
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