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| I really liked it although the end confused me. |
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| That turned out to be a lot better than I was expecting. That "bat man" scene really got the movie going. Dang, that got freaky. The whole falling (into the sky) thing is terrifying. Great job on the angles. My hands would have been too sweaty to maintain grip just watching. Fear of heights/falling is what made this movie good. I didn't really like how the head dude was practically a cult leader. Ha ha, it was he who was inverted. I think it would have been better if he "knew" the truth but had been trying to keep it covered up for "peace" or something... would have fit with that society a bit better... I kind of saw the twist coming (fake sky was a pretty big giveaway), but it was still a nice transition from the beginning, were Patema was assumed to be the "inverted" one. 8/10 (very good) I was never bored watching this. Kept my attention very well. I don't understand previous posts about not understanding the ending... |
BurntJellyDec 31, 2017 8:51 PM
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| So from reading other people's comments apparently Eiji's world was in fact the true underground world all along, and he was inverted not Patema. The world they discovered at the end being the true surface. Mind you I probably never would have come to that conclusion on my own, but reading it makes sense. Maybe it's that inability to understand that has left me fairly indifferent about this film. Before reading those comments as the credits rolled my primary thought was, "Well, that sure was a movie." Not bad, not good, just a movie. The thing that probably stood out to me the most honestly was the over the top douchey villain who I couldn't wait to see get killed since pretty much his first scene. Patema and Eiji's relationship, the core of the film, was cute...but that's it. Nothing fantastic or anything like that. Certainly not something on say a Renton/Eureka level, but then there really wasn't enough time for anything like that to develop. For me anyway. I dunno, even other films with similar runtimes have certainly done relationships better. The one I watched just yesterday for instance From Up on Poppy Hill. The visuals were fine, and things certainly got trippy with all the inversions, but I dunno. I don't really feel like this movie will stick with me. More of a forgettable curiosity than anything else. But considering the overwhelmingly positive reviews of it I'm reading by others I dunno, maybe I just didn't get it. I'll still give it a 7 out of 10 which is my generic "good" score. |
| This movie really does a fantastic job at putting things into perspective. Whether it was Patema slowly overcoming her fears of falling into the sky or Age beginning to learn what she was going through, it's able to take that concept of being upside and turn it on its head. For me, it had to be the moment when Age almost falls off the top of the tower that made me finally understand Patema's fear of the "sky." But even in that fear, there was beauty to be found. Even as Patema was afraid, she was able to admire the starlight and share that connection with Age. Even though fear & fascination were what divided their perspectives, they could still find common ground by learning to understand one another. And really, it's that theme of overcoming differences to unite that makes this movie ring so true. For Age & Patema, who lived in two entirely different worlds, they were able to find that bond through holding onto each other. Something else that this movie made me think of is that with freedom comes fear. It's overcoming that fear that makes freedom so precious. 8.5/10 |
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| That was pretty cool. There are a few parts that didn't make any sense to me, like when Porta and Age go to rescue Patema. How the hell did Porta get to the tower if he pulls Age towards the sky? How the hell did he get back underground afterwards? Even if there was something he was doing to traverse the world it surely wouldn't have taken him such a short amount of time to get there and back, let alone by himself. Also, Age and Patema falling to the sky (or rising, idk) took long enough for them to pass out, wake up, and still be falling, yet somehow the flight machine slowly rising takes them maybe 3 minutes to see the ground. I'm not sure if the machine is faster than it looks, or if Age and Patema just fell really slow, idk. Whatever it was still a cool movie. I'm not one to lose sleep over a few things like that, I enjoyed it. 8/10 |
impastaSep 4, 2018 10:16 PM
| it was a nice watch, but I highly doubt it would be good a second time, it basically relied on the plot twists to stay interesting. The fake sky they landed on was a pretty weak plot point, there is just so much wrong with it. Surprisngly enough literally nobody was on the "real" surface of earth, which seems odd as well. Apparently there are only few humans left in total. Just when it was about to get interesting to see how the societies would react the movie is over. Convenient. The whole concept seems interesting at first but the closer you look the worse it gets. Generic no character evil dude, generic no character acually nice hecnhman of evil dude. The "romance" was weak, the "oh look at this nazi society" was weak. Wtf was that 5 minute scene with nothing but photos of Lagos and his father. the Ost might as well be calles non existent, there was one good song and that was used like once in the middle of the movie and for the credits. And how they managed to make a 2013 movie look so bad at times is beyond me. It had nice backgrounds, but the overall artytsle seems more like from a series then from a movie. Oh, and this is the first anime/movie which managed to give me motion sickness. Not when the camera turned around, no. During Patemas stay in the lodge. Was that animated which half the fps or what? Not even pure CGI anime like Sidonia no Kishi were that bad. I see the director getting honored for his works quite often, I really wish to know for what exactly. I will give it a 7/10 mostly for the unique concept. It should probably be a 6 considering 0 rewatch value or even a 5 considering dated artstyle and boring ost. But since the initial experience was alright I will leave it at 7 for now. This is as shallow as it gets. The high score is beyond me and a shame for all the actually good movies. |
Comander-07Sep 22, 2018 3:59 PM
| "This emotion is mine alone. It is for Madoka alone." - Homura or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. |
| interesting plot point but honestly i was bored most of the movie. felt like it relied too heavily on visuals, and the twists of it. villain didn't have depth and the dude who betrayed him had like no depth or reasons as to doing such too. |
| Love but different from the world. At the end of the moon look like the planet Saturn. So Patema is the real inhabitant of the earth? |
| Rewatched this again on the 17th. |
 Novels I have read/am reading pending approval: since November 10 2022 |
| It's either my brain is too slow or the movie is too good cause i didn't expect that plot twist until the end.. this movie is awesome for me 10/10... Glad i spare my time to watch this |
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| I was thinking about watching this movie quite a time now but never had the chance to watch but today at last I did. It was mind blowing experience. 8/10 |
| That moon sure was close. And considering all the debris around it, it seems safe to assume it's the source of "reversed" gravity. The only question is why some people are unaffected. Overall the whole inversion idea was really cool and camera changes worked great. Sadly, the conflict was way too one sided and it killed the twist a bit - while I didn't expect the real sky is below them (I expected it on the other side lol), that whole blaming history and censoring gave it right away that bad guys were the real inverted. |
| Interesting concept and nice plot twist, but the characters were so cliché. |
| Rely on nothing under heaven |
| I never seen the alternate world of the earth like these. 3 worlds with two sided gravitation, the inverted one. I pretty loling about that. Its incredible. This was truly a masterpiece, no doubt about it. I mean, you met with the inverted people before? Its crazy! Its unique! For the storyline that pretty unique and so creative, for the sake of my pure soul, this show really deserved on my 10 list! Thats it.... |
badabassJun 15, 2020 5:49 PM
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Rojitoki said: This movie was interesting but as said before here it left so many questions. -The place we see at the end. Let's say that it is the real world, not inverted one. Why the building there were like that? I felt like they were building that crashed at this side of the world at first. - Where the main villain has gone at the end? Is there something beyond the sky or just stars or so. Also there should be a place that all the building and other debris gone. We didn't see anything like that, right? But that main antagonist probably saw it. I said these things considering this image which was posted here before https://m.imgur.com/jAHOd7n I guess, he just died. Because, yeah, the real sky must be in the real world we have seen in the end. This is my opinion toward this beautiful movie: Thats it. Maybe. Lmao. |
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| Need more patema <3 |
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| So the whole world went to the sky? When they went to the true surface no one was there and yet the power was still on...and Aiga were the true inverts. I enjoyed it just fine, 6/10 |
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| Was ok. Interesting to some degree but far too simplistic. It was speedrunning to many cliches. If they were to try kinky stuff, how would it look like? XD I know that director-kun can do better than that. |
| The concept of inverted worlds is pretty good but for the plot itself it was quite generic, but still a fine movie overall |
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| barely hit the 8 mark for me but one thing i am dying too know is what about that industrial world at the top of the sky? is there any explanation to that? no one lives there? |
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| Interesting idea and plot. I wished to see more about the normal and inverted people's past. At some parts, it felt a bit rushed. Nevertheless, great animation and cool music. All in all, alright movie, but a bit overrated. A fair 5-6/9 is what it deserves. Also, why didn't we see the kiss? I mean like seriously why??? It had a big impact on the story and would make the whole movie better. Also, a bit annoying we didn't see Lago's dead body. I guess it would prevent them with a low PG rating, hence not suitable for kids. LOL. |
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japzone said: Yamada2 said: A question to all those who claim Patema's people were not the inverted ones, how do you explain that ending? In the end, the gravity for those underground reversed and we could see dozens of buildings lying on the ground which were certainly not present before. As many people pointed out above you: Thanks. I didn't realize that. :P |
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Puppet said: I'm still kind of confused about Lagos. Loved the concept of inverted gravity, wish there was a diagram of this world. I was surprised no one got engulfed by magma though. I guess you need to dig deeper to get to that part of the earth. :P |
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| Wow 😲 This movie is Awasome Great story, Animation, Music, Aside from that our MCs are very likable and there wholesome romance really hit at right spot in my heart . It's 9/10 for me , The plot twist at the end was huuuuuuuuuuge and I love it. |
| As someone who suffers from vertigo, watching this made me feel very uneasy. Every scene someone was hanging from the """ceiling""" I thought subconsciously that they were going to fall off and die, just as Patema almost did at the very beginning. Fortunately that wasn't the case but I suspect my fear won't vanish on a rewatch. Other than that, it was a surprisingly thought provoking movie. It teaches us empathy by showing how one point of view may not be the only truth to the matter very explicitly, and that's great. The character interactions were... fine and the villain was too crazy for some reason I didn't really get. There were some good tracks in the OST though not all of them fit the scene they were used on. Overall recommendable, but do take into account the vertigo part. Flipping the monitor upside down won't solve the problem either. |
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| Now this is what I'd call a great story! 10/10. Sadly, there wasn't an intimate romance between the two but I guess in the end, the difference between inverted and non-inverted people has been given hope to finally understand one another or that's probably how it will go. This is one of those stories where you can feel that what you're watching is surreal and fantasy-like instead of a haphazardly created world. P.S. I really love Patema's Japanese VO/CV, it is really cute, wonderful, soothing and lovely. I haven't seen anything like hers from these past years. |
CrazyButNot4UJun 13, 2022 2:25 AM
| It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it, is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service. |
| I was skimming through the top anime movies/specials/OVAs the other day to find stuff to pad my completed list between binging my stalled list and found this. So, I threw it into my queue and just planned to watch it, not particularly knowing what to expect. The premise seemed fairly interesting at least. My main regret at this point is that I binged the OVAs before starting this, and while that built up a lot of hype and got me excited, I'm basically rewatching the same scenes again for the first 20 minutes. There are some slightly additions, but I could've just skipped the OVA and came straight here. I was under the impression that the OVAs were going to be a prologue of sorts and tell the events leading up to how the movie begins. I was utterly bamboozled. I really like Age's attitude upon initially meeting Patema. Especially when he's like, "I'm not going to hurt you. So what if you're upside down?" It comes off as funny to me because he's treating it like it's some horrible stigma, which in this story I guess it is. But, just thinking about it from my perspective, as a viewer, just imagining someone walking around on my ceiling and I'm just like, "Well, they aren't hurting anyone. I don't see the problem." The real question is, what happens if Patema goes to the bathroom? The dialogue in this is really amusing to me. In general though, the characters and voice acting are all really well done. Like, everyone suits their roles, so what the say comes off really on point. I also liked how Porta called Age "invert boy." Because it was clearly meant to be something derogatory but since the concept of inversion isn't necessarily relevant to us, the viewers, it just comes off as almost silly. Another thing of note: the setting is brilliant. The art does a fantastic job of conveying the feeling of each scene. I think it's one of the most successful series I've seen in that sense. I really appreciated it and I tend not to care too much about visuals. As a final thought, and I'll put this in spoilers because it mentions significant events. |
 "...Is your mother worried? Would you like us to assign someone to worry your mother?" |
japzone said: Yamada2 said: A question to all those who claim Patema's people were not the inverted ones, how do you explain that ending? In the end, the gravity for those underground reversed and we could see dozens of buildings lying on the ground which were certainly not present before. As many people pointed out above you: Have to quote it again. Thanks. So the catastrophic event nearly killed and affected all the humanity, with Patema's people being the rare exceptions. That would explains why the real surface of Earth seems to be empty. |
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| For some reason I don't have the thought process to criticize or find faults in it, but I did enjoy it. Quite charming and epic, even though a villain with that goal is bizarre and dumb. Imagining how no one would oppose him makes this feel implausible, but very enjoyable overall even with its few holes and mysteries like another thread pointed out. 6/10. Somewhat surprisingly, after finishing all of his work. Time of Eve remains his best work. Even with the slightly disappointed left wanting more ending. |
| The concept is interesting. I wish they explored the world more, especially the heavily industrialized city in the sky that looked like stars from afar. I had to look for a map to understand the ending better, and it looked like Patema and her people were the normal ones, while Age and his people were the inverted ones that hid underground. The industrialized city that looked like stars from afar was, in fact, close to the Earth's core. I like the mask worn by the Security Soldiers. They look badass! |
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Predelnik said:
Well I don't see love as being main topic of the movie, and they haven't even kissed so somehow I didn't have much problem with that. Though for example in "Kokurikozaka kara" quick love escalating was the only issue in movie for me :)
The ending is kinda Shyamalanesque ending I believe:
I liked the movie but for me it was a bit more action packed than desired and a bit too loud (maybe it's just director's style). 3D was justified and used in right places which is great.
PS Forgot to add - The favorite scene for me was - when school students having the same (kinda copycat) appearance while they're looking down are suddenly becoming all different from each other when they're starting to look at the sky.
Well I don't see love as being main topic of the movie, and they haven't even kissed so somehow I didn't have much problem with that. Though for example in "Kokurikozaka kara" quick love escalating was the only issue in movie for me :)
The ending is kinda Shyamalanesque ending I believe:
I liked the movie but for me it was a bit more action packed than desired and a bit too loud (maybe it's just director's style). 3D was justified and used in right places which is great.
PS Forgot to add - The favorite scene for me was - when school students having the same (kinda copycat) appearance while they're looking down are suddenly becoming all different from each other when they're starting to look at the sky.
I think they did kissed. Do you remember the scene when they "fell" into sky and landed "there"? The first time they faced each other directly instead of upside down was inside the airship. Their forehead pressed against one another and then the scene shifted to outside the airship. Here it blocks off the whole view and you can only see Patema. Her head moves further into the airship, so it is implied that they kissed. We don't know because we couldn't see the whole thing, but I bet they did.
Honestly I love the whole movie: it's a lot deeper than what people thinks. Patema and Age could not fully understand each other at first because their views are different. Age could only understand her fear when he "fell" into the sky - he became the one who needs Patema in order to not fall.
This applies in our society as well. We sympathized with others and think we understand their pain, but in reality we do not. Unless we fully devote ourselves into stepping into the shoes of the other could we actually see it from their view. We humans have longed for peace, yet we could not achieve it. Why? Because we never cared about the view of one another. For example, one can like Patema Inverted and the other can hate it. Will they try to persuade the other into their view? Of course. Will they succeed? No. Not one of them will try to actually see the other view because it is the opposite - the same as being upside down - and they will end up with "Who cares whether I like it or not? Let's drop it because it's pointless for you to convince me other wise."
There are cases where it works, but humanity have long forsaken what it means to "understand" one another. There is also the case of political correctness in this movie. Age lived in a false world that is held together with discipline. No one is allowed to look at the sky or question the world they live it. Conform and obey in order to not offend those in rule. Our world is exactly like that.
What are laws? Who created them? We did. The law does not protect people, it is the people who protects the law. When someone breaks the law or the rule, who takes action? The people. There a lots of human who need to open their eyes and question everything. There are revolutionaries who break the laws and go against the government. Their actions obviously do harm to people as well. What is right and what is wrong? Is it just plainly letting the government, the laws, the revolutionaries, the terrorists and the media to decide for us? No, you must step out and question every piece of information you see. Come up with your own answer, see the world yourself. Age and Patema did that - they jumped over the boundary and disobeyed rules which led to their meeting.
This world is beautiful, that is why we must not also learn to trust, but also to doubt. Trust the right things, doubt the right things. Sounds impossible right? Who decides the limits? You yourself do. That is why, no matter what age you are, go and jump into this harsh and crazy world. Let yourself live in the moment, not bounded by any law or rights. This is what it is to be truly free.
| @Samhiuy yeah, they did kiss. I loved it so much when I saw they were closing towards each other, and I knew then that they would kiss also the mood was perfect too. I rewatched that scene more than ten times. |
| Holy moly, this movie was so good. I have never seen anything like this before. My only regret is that why didn't I watch it sooner😭. I really loved everything about this movie, especially the interactions between Patema and Age also that kiss scene oof. Also, the whole animation, man, what the hell? They looked so good that you wouldn't even believe that this movie came out 13 years ago. Well, I'm really glad I was able to find this masterpiece and finally finish it after 13 years. |
| It's pretty good. But it dragged on a bit too long imo. 7/10. |
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