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December 21, 2007

Flatland: The Film ()

by fluffy at 8:43 PM
Not to be confused with the educational film Flatland: The Movie, Flatland: The Film is an excellent movie.

There's a few minor problems with it, but as far as amateur, independent, feature-length productions go, it was extremely good. The story has been updated for a modern audience, and the sense of humor has been retained, with a few nice twists (such as the way the narrator is conveyed, as wry interstitial title cards).

Of course, there are still several factual errors with what can and can't happen in two dimensions and how it relates to the third (for example, there's nothing to prevent light from bouncing, and a Flatlander would also experience perspective), but those were in the original novel and fairly important to the story.

Comments

#10243 12/22/2007 09:18 pm
I was actually considering getting the movie, but paying full DVD price for an educational "movie" that's only 30 minutes long didn't seem like a very good deal. I didn't hear about the film, however; I am intrigued.
#10244 12/22/2007 09:41 pm
After rereading the novel last night, I watched F:TF again tonight and picked up on a lot of little details which I missed the first time around. The movie actually has WAY more plot than the book, but also a surprising amount of dialog in the movie came from it.

I'd like to see F:TM (the 30-minute educational one) but I'm definitely not paying $25 for it. Mostly I just want to compare them... from the trailer, F:TM looks like it doesn't really stick to the spirit of the book that well (for example, the king of Lineland talks like a stoned surfer dude instead of, you know, a king) and a lot of the visuals are very "cutesy" as opposed to accurate (with different "surfaces" on the plane and characters who can flip around and so on).
#10298 01/02/2008 07:13 am Africa
Hmm, now to figure out how to get this movie to Africa, heh. Anyone want to send a digital care package? Small is good over VSAT but the bandwidth isn't bad. My fellow geek teachers would love it as much as I would.