SAKASAMA NO PATEMA DISCUSSION MOVIE
The villian (I don’t believe that he has a name, nor does anyone else in the movie besides Patema, Age, Porta, Lagos and the Elder) threatens Age and reveals that his father was indeed killed at the hands of the government. After a really neat scene where they are running/flying away from the police they are eventually captured. The security police are dispatched to retrieve Patema from the shed, but Age tries to run away from them with her. Of course this was not the case as he was KILLED by the government for trying to fly, which is deviant behaviour I suppose. Later that night when Age returns to Patema they look at the sky and he reminisces about his father who died in an accident involving a flying machine that he built. What a police state like place Aiga is, people can’t even look up at the sky. I guess that says a lot about my tastes! Guhehehe!Īnyways…In Aiga they have all these rules about not looking up at the sky because that’s where the sinner’s souls are still lingering. Something I noticed about the anime I have been watching recently is that they all take place in a “utopian/dystopian future”. Apparently in Aiga you are not allowed to look up at the sky because that is where sinful people are taken up to, the Inverted ones. Age stares outside of the window into the sky and receives three “demerit points” from his teacher. I gathered by now that Lagos, a friend from Patema’s world who has gone missing for a few years, was the person that was captured by the villain. He calls the residents of Aiga, Age’s world, the true humans that survived the catastrophe. Oh yeah, the villain has been shown teaching on the projector in Age’s class explaining that a catastrophe claimed many lives in the sky. Wow! His face went from all happy that he was able to float with Patema, to miserable as soon as he was on his way to the school. This became more of an issue later on in the movie, which I will get to further down.Īfter chatting for a bit Age has to go to class, so he leaves Patema in a shed to wait for him until he returns. It was a bit disorienting to me when I was trying to keep track of what side of the world I was on. The camera does a lot of spinning in this movie to reorient the camera depending on which world’s point of view we are looking through, either Age’s world or Patema’s world. These scenes where Age and Patema are clinging onto each other for dear life and floating in the sky are truly beautiful to look at. Patema has the reverse gravity of the boy and appears to fall upwards into the sky. Climbing down to get it she comes face to face with the boy, who introduces himself as Age. Patema wakes up and is in some bushes but drops her backpack. He is staring up at the sky as if he wants to fly away himself. We meet a boy who is laying in the grass dreaming of a machine that floats through the air. Needless to say she goes back to the shaft that she found and a “bat man” is down there and scares her into falling down the shaft. Once she’s alone she takes out a picture that reads “the real world” and is a picture of what above ground would look like: sun, sky, trees and grass. Porta, her friend, tells her that there are “bat men” lurking in the dangerous areas where she likes to go exploring. It’s interesting to note that they have to live off food rations and they all wear these heavy looking suits while out and about. We get a quick look at her underground hometown where her friends all live. She’s an inquisitive young girl who goes exploring where she’s not supposed to. In the next scene we meet our heroine, Patema. To begin the movie we are introduced to the villain who is talking to someone that is inverted.
It was directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura, who also directed Time of Eve both of which are spectacular. When I first heard about this movie and watched the shorts for it, I knew it was going to be a good movie.