(from the archives)
Many years ago now, I stumbled across Upside Down (2012) on Netflix. It’s a classic story of star-crossed love between a boy from one world and a girl from another. Except that in this case, what keeps them from getting down is quite literally an agreement on which direction it is.
So, already, we’re talking about a very far-out type of story universe, taking something we all take for granted (namely: gravity) and messing with it.
Then, when I started sitting down to write about it a short time later, I stumbled upon another film with a similar core concept: サカサマのパテマ <<Patema Inverted>> (2013). After viewing Patema, it seemed only fitting to talk about both of these movies together and how one clearly rose above the other with their treatment of the common conceit.
Continue reading Adventures in Gravitational Relativity