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Title: Flatland: The Other Movie
Review: I'll assume that the reader has alreay enjoyedAbbott's classicshort novel. Perhpas you read it as a mathematically oriented youth, or perhaps as a mature reader dipping into a Victorian parody of Victorian gender and class politics. Either way, you'll find a flattened, two-dimensional version of the story you loved.Although much more professionally done thanFlatland the Filmand with some big name voices, this strays far from the original story. Females, for example, are geometric and social equals of the males, and an Area 51-style conspiracy theory appears at the center of the story. Overbearing overlords of the society come across as petty tyrants - too obvious to be at all threatening, at least to any viewer in a multi-digit age group.The mathematical commentary survives, with a pleasant "extra" from an Ivy League math professor, but that's about all that's left of Abbott's original points.-- wiredweird
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