![]() ![]() ![]() They are taught that once long ago Judgement came and all of the sinners, called The Inverted, fell into the sky. In Age’s world, everyones lives are so tightly controlled by a dictator, that they don’t even walk to school, but stand emotionless on moving platforms. The key difference to Patema however is the existence of a “sky,” which from her perspective, she is constantly in danger of falling into.Īge’s tightly controlled yet visually pleasing dystopia. Age is a teenage boy, who attends a private school in a fascist constructivist world. ![]() She falls out of her romantic existence in an underground city and into the arms of Age (Nobuhiko Okamoto). It instead focuses on an idea that is both unique in it’s creativity, yet probably has a rich history reaching back through past books and films: can there be love between two people with opposite centers of gravity? Patema’s venture into the Danger Zone inevitably leads her to discover a world literally opposite to her, reflected over the x-axis. Patema Inverted continues the thread of disaster-genre that I’ve see in other anime films like Evangelion, and barely touches on environmentalism that is heavily found in Studio Ghibli films. The faux-found footage (which always looks weird in anime) shows apartments slowly crumbling and rising into the sky, caught on VHS. ![]() In the prologue we are clued in to a mysterious scientific experiment that goes horribly wrong, and seems to reverse the gravity of a large swath of an ordinary city. Patema immediately sets out to break the boundaries set by her father (the councilman/elder/king?) and ventures into the DANGER ZONE, a broken walkway leading into the middle of a vast tunnel that seems to infinitely stretch out into the darkness above her and below her. In this fantasy, Patema (Fujii Yukiyo) is a young teenage girl who loves to explore the grungy yet fascinating underground industrial world that she lives in. Patema Inverted (サカサマのパテマ Sakasama no Patema ) is a Japanese anime directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura. Age (“ah-gay”) and Patema (“Pah-teh-ma”) meet for the first time. ![]()
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