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Patema Inverted (movie).




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Stark700



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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 9:31 am Reply with quote

Patema Inverted

Genres: adventure, drama, fantasy, science fiction
Themes: dangers, exploration, parallel universe, upside-down world

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A world, forever beyond your expectations. In a dark, cramped, underground world of endless tunnels and shafts, people wear protective suits and live out their modest hard and yet happy lives. The princess of the underground community, Patema, goes out exploring as always, inspired by her curiosity of the unknown depths of the world. Her favorite spot is the "danger zone", an area forbidden by the "rule" of the community. Despite being frequently chastised by her caretaker Jii, she cannot hold back her curiosity for the reason behind the rule, because no one would tell her what the "danger" was. When she approaches the hidden "secret", the story begins.


Movie is subbed now and I gotta say, this was quite something. I really like the overall themes of it and the music behind the movie. It's roughly 95+ minutes long but I thought most of the time were worth it for the style of how their world is crafted.

I think I saw the ONA quite awhile ago though but this was a movie that I thought was interesting especially in spoiler[relation of the nature of their people and the two worlds.]
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Kruszer



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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 4:11 pm Reply with quote
If for some reason you haven't already I highly suggest you check out the Studio's other works too, Time of Eve, Aquatic Language, and Pale Cocoon, they are also fantastic. After watching those I would not be surprised if this is good too.
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dlm



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PostPosted: Sat May 10, 2014 11:08 pm Reply with quote
Any truth to vague rumors that this will be screened in US theaters?
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leatherhead333



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 1:47 pm Reply with quote
Recently watched the subbed version of this. I have a clear conscience though since I imported the movie from Japan.

Regarding my opinion on the movie.

Gah this movie made my neck hurt so much. Wish there was an option to flip the video upside down in one of these video sources lol.
A very fun and unique movie though. I actually used to have nightmares spoiler[about Earth suddenly losing gravity so I understood Patema's fear all to well. It's certainly one of the forces of nature we take for granted. Only real gripes i have is the villain being extremely bland and not enough of those romantic moments between Patema and Age (how the hell are these two supposed have kids or even make out properly anyway?). But with movies like this that kind of stuff is standard. I did like how this unquie world was explored but there definitely needed to be a bit more meat to how this whole setting happened. It's a cool little fantasy world but there were some issues that needed in depth explanation (like how the inverted people survived).]

Other than that I thought it was good. Nothing particularly mind blowning about it honestly but it's something I'd gladly watch again in my free time.
I'll probably end up buying the stateside release too.
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