Patema has the love of her people in the underground kingdom. What we have here is something they contrast in terms of dealing with their families, friends, and relatives.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t transit into any sort of significant development as most of their moments in the sky is reflected by struggles. At the same time, their connection builds off what little time they share with each other. It takes guts to fight off governmental control or those menacing looking bat humanoids as seen throughout the movie. Combined with the way they discover each other, the pair brings dynamics, humor, and integrity. They’re not star-crossed lovers but Patema and Age shares a rather unique relationship. In fact, gravity is defied and the law of the universe is negated. It’s a unique gimmick despite lacking strength in crafting its concept of gravity. Oh and don’t forget the fact that she sees the world differently as everyone else through her inverted vision. At first, it’s easy to tell that she’s scared as a new kid in the world of the unknown. On the other hand, there’s the way how Patema experiments with her life in the surface world. From an experimental perspective, there’s also a sense of prejudice as the antagonists label certain characters as “sinners”.
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But for a movie with this sense of adventure, there’s needs to be more to add on. It brings credibility to the term of ‘inverted’. From there on, we get whole scenarios where he must hold Patema in order to prevent her from flying away. Taken for granted, Patema falls into the danger zone and is thrown into danger until Age prevents her from “falling down”. Classrooms are in fact held indoors with dictatorship and authority by the higher ups. Unlike the underground kingdom, the technology there is sufficient and its strength lies with the superiors. On other hand, there’s the surface world. Of course, curiosity almost kills the cat as she ventures into the danger zone and gets herself into some serious trouble, more than what she had imagined. But as a curious girl like Patema, she’d definitely want to explore what the outside world is like. People there relies on scavenged food and crude machines to survive. In the underground kingdom, the technology is rigid and desolate. Nonetheless, the movie wastes little time by introducing the two main characters and their perspective worlds. You ever heard of the perhaps humorous joke of ‘don’t look down’ on a suspended bridge? Try putting your shoes into their position in this movie and you’ll get a good general idea. Literally, the movie has the two main characters, Patema and Age (Eiji) hanging on to each other as they see their perspective world from different points of view. To get an experience of what the world is like, one should first be familiarized with how flight works.