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Flatland
By James O'Ehley on SciFI Movie Page
The Flatland
of the title of this very clever and well-made
independent animated movie refers to a plane of existence which
consists of only two dimensions. There is no depth - everything is
literally flat.
This Flatland is inhabited by, well, very flat
sentient creatures similar to ourselves. Their world also resembles
ours in that their attitudes are governed by religious dogma, sexism
and their society is divided into very clear social classes and castes.
Some of their society's rules seem senseless: the rectangular and round
creatures that inhabit this world can change their colours at will, but
for some reason it is seen as a heresy to do so and punishable by
death. (How these strictly two-dimensional manage to see each other and
navigate their way around their world is of course one of the movie's
many jokish asides.)
One day everything in this Flatland is thrown into disarray when a
three-dimensional creature appears, a perfect sphere, who informs the
flatlanders that there is indeed a higher plane of existence beyond
their own two-dimensional world, namely a world with depth in which
three-dimensional objects and living creatures exist.
Screen Capture of Flatland on the Scifi Movie Page
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