Of all things… this was like saying that in order to achieve friendship and understanding between people who are allergic to nuts and people who are not the former need to stop fearing nuts. The entire thing about perspective nonsensical, as if being freaking scared of falling into an infinite nothingness beneath your feet isn’t a perfectly normal reaction. The reasons for their hate of the inverted a silly strawman of real religious/racial discrimination (they even KNEW they were that way because of an accident! But still, SINNERS).
The villain is a joke, as subtle as that fairy king baddie from SAO. But I’d imagine they’re creating them out of materials they mine out of the same bedrock as everyone. There’s not much world building or consistent rules for how things work in this world (for example, subterranean people seem to own tools that follow THEIR sense of gravity. The core idea is nice and makes for some great visual tricks, but the rest just isn’t there.
#Sakasama no patema ova movie
Yeah, I found this movie to be just… stupid. Recommendations – Nagi no Asakura, Laputa (now that I think about it, Patema is essentially a pale imitation of Laputa)
They have another half-assed attempt at switching perspectives, by calling the people who live upside down “inverted”, while pointing out that it’s actually the right-side-up people living in an evil dictatorship who are inverted. He just kind of realizes on his own that killing people is probably bad. Plus, his change doesn’t have much to do with most of the action happening in the movie. The one person who does change his perspective is the special ops guy. The underground people never change, aside from becoming a bit more trusting as they get to know people. Likewise, Patema doesn’t have much to change her perspective about- the movie suggests she overcomes her fear of falling to her death, but in my opinion, that’s probably a healthy fear to have. He understands she doesn’t want to fall to her death in a bottomless chasm- but I’m pretty sure he understood that before.
He supposedly changes when he switches to living upside-down, because now he understands Patema better. The main guy just confirms his previous beliefs. This is supposed to be a movie about changing your perspective, about having the courage to look at things in a different way.