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Flatland the Film
starring Greg Trent, Chris Carter, Linda Meigs, Ashley Blackwell, Mark Slater
directed by Ladd P. Ehlinger Jr, Ladd Ehlinger Jr

Features:

• NTSC, DVD-R Format
• Collector's Edition
• Widescreen
• NTSC

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Flatland the Film
  Flatland the Film Excellent Film! Way better than the higher priced Flatland: The Movie which is way shorter in length, with a more crude story line.

• Solid
  This version of the tale tries the most to update the film to a modern audience, and that is its chief failing. The original tale was called a Romance, and this updating removes that very concept from the story. While it follows much of the novella's narrative- in describing the way Flatland works (although the original's King is replaced by a President- who oddly still wears a crown), it departs severely from the original at its most crucial moment, once A Square is visited by A Sphere from Spaceland. In... more info

• Excellent homage to Edwin Abbott Abott's classic!
  This movie is an excellent homage to Edwin Abbott Abbott's classic masterpiece "Flatland."
  When the mathematician Abbott wrote his book Flatland on the eve of the 20th century, he used the mathematical notion of two dimensionality to decry all forms of two dimensional thinking. In that sense, movies or other works building off of Flatland can pursue both these themes or merely one of them at the expense of the other.
  While this movie does basic justice to Abbott's underlying mathematics I think... more info

• Very Good - Almost Great
  I have shown the film to several friends, family members and 2 classes of students. My wife and I really enjoyed it, although we thought the ending (last several minutes) was just weird and that's what dropped it from 5 stars.
  Amazingly several friends and family members were fairly interested in it - the social commentary of Abbot's piece came in fairly well early on. Many to most of the student's enjoyed it - a few, like anywhere, decided to sleep. One student was so intrigued she did a report on... more info

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