(The two title characters morphed into each other when you turned it upside-down.) Gardner also wrote a preface for the Dover Books edition of the Baum book I was quoting from, and he called attention to the "upside-down" world in that particular chapter of the book as well. For many years he wrote the "Mathematical Games" column for Scientific American, and was intrigued by puzzles and paradoxes, including of perception and including, especially, inversions- I remember quite well one he wrote about a weird comic strip by one Gustave Verbeek, "The Upside-Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo," which was actually two strips in one- reading it in the conventional orientation gave you half the story to get the other half, you flipped it over. Martin Gardner would have loved Patema Inverted. "I mean nothing of the kind," he said, while his nose twinkled with amusement, "this country is up, and not down."
"Down here, you mean," corrected the Duchess, with dignity. "Why it is YOU who are upside down," he said, "how in the world did you get up here?" Can Patema and Age come to understand each other when the ruler of Aiga is resolved to keep them apart- and to keep Patema a terrified prisoner? But Aiga is ruled by a tyrant, and indoctrinates its residents to hate and fear "inverts" like Patema. A young man named Age, a resident of Aiga (as the region she's tumbled into is called) saves her, even though he (AND his world) literally seem to have the opposite orientation to hers. Patema, a young woman with a burning curiosity about the world outside of her compartmented existence, encounters an enemy during one of her explorations, and in the act of fleeing finds herself falling into the sky. Notes: Conceived, written and directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura
Related Series: 4 six-minute net animationsĪlso Recommended: Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind or almost ANYTHING by Miyazaki, really. Distributor: Currently licensed by GKids.Ĭontent Rating: PG-13 (Mild torture, mature situations.)
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