You know, watching this film always makes me realize how much I take 3D space for granted.
@lowercasefriend56222 ай бұрын
Finding gratitude for a 3d existence is next level self glazing 10/10
@BfnfBfnf-wt2qz2 ай бұрын
@@lowercasefriend5622and what the glazing is valid
@HooverDam19352 ай бұрын
I love moving around freely I used to take it for granted but now I’ve seen a 2D beings prespevtive I am grateful
@yourboy_BillCipher10 күн бұрын
Now imagine a 4D being watching a 3D vid and realising how grateful they are
@emcplantc46022 ай бұрын
I love the detail of how A Square gets put back into Flatland backwards, and can use that to prove the third dimension exists. Notice how at the start he and B Square faced the same direction and had to have one upside down if they faced eachother. And when A Square comes back he’s now able to look his brother in the eye. A rotation like that is completely impossible in only 2D
@Zeeboklown2 ай бұрын
i noticed that!
@woolsheepthree2 ай бұрын
An incredibly well thought out worldbuilding jeezus...
@RavenTheSergal2 ай бұрын
Now im tripping out imagining how the same thing would *somehow* be able to translate in the 4th dimension, IE rotating on the 4th axis would alow a person to return to 3d physically flipped like he does in his world. Now that im thinking about it vsauce did a short on that didnt he?
@Zeeboklown2 ай бұрын
@@RavenTheSergal idk if Vsauce did a vid on it, but ur on the cusp of what scientists end up calling the "simulation universe" theory. from MY understanding, depending on ur school of thought, there's either 9 or 11 dimensions, with an infinite number of fractal dimensions, as about, so below, etc etc. have fun! dont get lost tho! it TRULY is a rabbithole and i've known many a friend to get lost in the warrens of that rabbithole... never to really come out/come back the same...
@aurorazuoris66542 ай бұрын
@@RavenTheSergalyou'd look like your mirror self! If you had a birthmark on your left arm, after flipping you it'd be on your right hand.
@derpderpson21882 ай бұрын
This is, quite possibly, the best lovecraftian horror film ever created. People think it's about tentacles and fishmen (and I guess for Lovecraft himself it was about racism, but that's beside the point here,) but the true horror of a lovecraftian monster is being something that we cannot understand, and the horror of being made *to* understand that which we cannot. A Square is exposed to and forced to comprehend a world for which he has no words, a world that he, as an organism, is not equipped to interact with or understand, he can only stand in awe of the terrible beauty before him. And then he is sent back, and the words he gained slip from his mind because he could barely process, much less understand, what he saw. In trying to explain, he sounds like a raving madman even though his ramblings make sense to *us* as three dimensional beings. Don't let the wacky music and goofy characters fool you. A Square went through the equivalent of getting picked up by Cthulhu and given a tour of R'lyeh.
@carissamace2 ай бұрын
It is sort of present in Lovecraft's work. It is mentioned a few times that the Old Ones are, by our definition, incredibly technologically advanced to the point that there's no distinction between any of the scientific fields or their own biology. This can be seen in some of the lesser eldritch beings, like the Elder Things, which are not quite as advanced enough that we don't recognize what they have as technology (for one thing, the Shoggoths are basically industrial robots they created). This leads to the very interesting idea that the Old Ones aren't necessarily evil (well, except for Nyarlathotep, but he's a dick even by the morals of the other Old Ones) they just operate on such a different scale than humanity that everything they do ends up destructive to us in one way. By just waking up and walking around Cthulhu causes untold devastation, which to him is basically just taking a stroll around his yard. To him, we're just random insects wandering about that he pays no mind to (and which Nyarlathotep burns with a magnifying glass for fun). Which makes the ending of the Call of Cthulhu really funny to me, because imagine you just woke up, open your front door, and a beetle just smacks right into the side of your head and gives you a little cut. I would probably decide to just go back to bed too.
@cjab__2 ай бұрын
My favorite film representation of Lovecraftian horror is the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey. I won't spoil it for you, it's REALLY good.
@cjab__2 ай бұрын
@@Canyon_Lark I think what they meant is that it gets to the heart of what gives Lovecraftian horror it's identity, which most movies really struggle with.
@adrianaslund86052 ай бұрын
Flatland predates Lovecraft as a concept. But yes people have made that connection before.
@CallumBradbury2 ай бұрын
In what way are lovecraft's works *about* racism?
@heccinparagon66332 ай бұрын
"Your brother is expendable" *queue the most whimsical music known to man*
@RainStripes2 ай бұрын
XD
@bdeiissosh2 ай бұрын
This movie is so goofy 🤭
@thepizzaman63102 ай бұрын
"Oh dearie me!" type music
@LoverOfMuch2 ай бұрын
1:01:05 timestamp for anyone wondering
@RetroJack2 ай бұрын
*Cue
@bradleyadams52522 ай бұрын
Imagine getting dragged to heaven by the closest thing to God you've ever seen in your life, only for both you and him to get put on trial and then witnessing the beginning of a massive war you can hardly make sense of. A Square's got it pretty rough!
@Dalton_Boardman20002 ай бұрын
I love how once he starts thinking he never stops. The closest thing to a God he's seen tells him a fourth dimension doesn't exist but his new understanding of logic says that there must be more. Sphere accidentally taught him way more than what he himself thought.
@Moe_Posting_Chad2 ай бұрын
@@Dalton_Boardman2000 Are we really any different? Something simply does not add up. Our explanation of our world and our mythology must be insufficient... Or at least the predominate narratives. Something must be that we have overlooked.
@kekero5402 ай бұрын
Imagine getting pulled into a jury trial as a witness to Nylarthotep of many faces and fucking Azathoth. There’s so many things about this stuff that is absolutely amazing
@MichaelWinter-ss6lx2 ай бұрын
Explaines DarkMatter much better and more logical than our current dark nothing. 🚀🏴☠️🎸
@thesilversage1Күн бұрын
Well, supossedly, Enoch was plucked off earth, shown around heaven by fallen angels wanting back into heaven and asked to represent them and bargain for them (hired as their lawyer?) and sent back to earth after. So.... (Not an expert on the books of enoch but i think it was something like that. )
@unpronouncable24422 ай бұрын
I don't know why but cries of terror proclaiming "It's a woman" really get me
@ChocolateChipperoni2 ай бұрын
same here 😂
@30-50FeralHogs2 ай бұрын
Me when I find out a character I thought was a guy for a really long time is actually a girl
@natedg88us2 ай бұрын
Relatable
@RolandOnnaRiver2 ай бұрын
@@unpronouncable2442 when your girl is literally a force of nature fr fr
@jamiebrown96162 ай бұрын
@@30-50FeralHogssamus
@СветланаКузьменко-з4и2 ай бұрын
Love the effort to actualy design a door for 2d space
@FilmLadd2 ай бұрын
Father was an architect, grew up at a drafting table
@BluffImpala22 ай бұрын
Pocket door!
@loupax2 ай бұрын
Now I wonder how 2D creatures built such doors
@danielculver22092 ай бұрын
@@loupax Probably a lot like we do 😀
@bradleyadams52522 ай бұрын
@@loupaxyeah, do they have 2d tools used to sculp 2d rocks into the shape of doors and rocks?
@gamersplay44643 ай бұрын
"Oh nooooo!!1!!!!!!!11! My son died!!!1!!1! *Anyways, attend to your configuration*-"
@KaapoKallio2 ай бұрын
The flatlanders don't get very attached to each other...
@СветланаКузьменко-з4и2 ай бұрын
@@KaapoKallio but do to higher dimensional "gods" though
@KaapoKallio2 ай бұрын
@@СветланаКузьменко-з4и perhaps
@groomschild16172 ай бұрын
their are two perspectives to the situation. in the negative view. Only politicians who are psychopaths/sociopaths rise to the top because they are more willing to plot against there fellowman and thus can more easily rise than an emphatic person In the positive view. leaders of a nation have a lot of burden on their shoulders and thus must be in control of their emotions at all times. He must as rationally as possible in his view and understanding to make the right decision
@Minalkra2 ай бұрын
@@groomschild1617 A third perspective: Child mortality was an accepted and understood Fact of Life prior to the medical advances of recent centuries. When this was written, there was still a large percentage of children that passed away even in the most developed world. Yes, it was sad, but frankly, it was almost expected.
@wisdomaxolotl27662 ай бұрын
This is probably the best representation of a 4d world. The idea of getting us invested in a 2d world, making us fell like a part of it, only to shatter that perspective along with the characters, is genius. Not to mention the mirroring of the 3d world having all the problems of the 2d, and the weird tone makes this so, so good. I need to watch this high. This being an adaptation of an 1884 book makes so much more sense, its old sci fi weirdness, no wonder.
@dreadv2 ай бұрын
Just finished this while I was high and wow the only way to explain what I felt was… 🤯
@Dominodude552 ай бұрын
not sure you do want to watch while high. it didn't make any sense to me while high right now, why were their brains in spinning gears? And what would you even call a 4D world?
@danielculver22092 ай бұрын
@@Dominodude55 artistic liberty and 4-space
@Dee-Mellow2 ай бұрын
This was the firet thing i watched while being high for the first time lmfao
@KarimAkors2 ай бұрын
this and Carl Sagens explaining 4th dimension
@megasparklegoomba68072 ай бұрын
This mf just dropped the most crazy line and they played silly xylophone music like “your brother is expendable.” *silliness engaged*
@FilmLadd2 ай бұрын
Sometimes, when confronted with horror, the most healthy reaction is to laugh
@imenemostefai8979Ай бұрын
RIGHT??? i just started laughing 😭😭
@SoupEarthOfficialАй бұрын
@@FilmLadd”Dark humor is the way some people cope with tragedy”
@mrman2476Ай бұрын
@@imenemostefai8979 Yup
@Whydoiexisthere-Ай бұрын
@@FilmLadd this quote genuinely goes hard for no reason
@just_a_hampa2 ай бұрын
“B, what are you doing? B, what would our dad say??” -“OUR DAD WAS A *TRIANGLE* .” Peak.
@nemou49852 ай бұрын
Triangles do have peaks
@dowesschule2 ай бұрын
I didn't get that. What does it mean or what makes it funny?
@joobi-woobi2 ай бұрын
@@dowesschule triangles have less sides, thus they are lower class, and considered dumber by beings of more sides iirc
@PALACIO2542 ай бұрын
@@dowesschule each generation gains an angle triangles are lower class citizens while squares and Pentagons are seen as gentleman the more angles the higher the class
@superchinmayplays2 ай бұрын
@@PALACIO254 oh wait so women are lines, and if you add a line to a square you get a pentagon so thats why A squares children are pentagon?
@michaelfixedsys74632 ай бұрын
Another detail I quite like, it looks like Flatlanders don't have nervous systems, and instead use radio waves to communicate between their brain and body. The cog around their brain looks like the functional mechanism in the radios, after all, and senator chromatiste was able to continue fleeing after having his brain severed. It also makes sense due to the constructions of 2 dimensional space, you can't route a nerve around an organ, but radio waves can pass through both organs and each other.
@Yipper642 ай бұрын
Oh yeah I was curious about the fact that Chromatiste was able to continue living despite the brain being severed. This makes sense. Though I wonder if the outer walls of their flesh keep the radio waves contained so there's no cross-talk.
@michaelfixedsys74632 ай бұрын
@@Yipper64 I doubt it, considering chromatiste didn't seem encumbered in any way while fleeing. they might use something vaguely analogous to networking protocols, like having their DNA imprinted into the wavelengths. A wifi router has a latency of under 100 milliseconds, sometimes as low as 5 or 6. Considering that nerves have a delay of 30-60 milliseconds, that does mean networked radio waves would be an acceptable substitute for nerves.
@kurtreber98132 ай бұрын
Radio waves propagate in 3D space. Can that work in Flatland?
@Yipper642 ай бұрын
@@kurtreber9813 since flatland is technically *in* space land then yeah. Could also be 2D radio waves.
@khenricx2 ай бұрын
@@kurtreber9813 Yes, in fact, it would be a pretty good method to figure out the third dimension exists, as they would notice that somehow the energy of the radio waves decreases faster than it should (in a 2D space, the intensity should decrease linearly with distance, while in 3D space, it decreases with the square of the distance) So by noticing that Radio energy is somehow "leaking" out of their plane, they could deduce the existence of an extra dimension where the radio waves dissipate. In fact this very method was/is actually used in real life by physicists with gravitational waves to probe the universe for extra spatial dimensions, that are predicted by some exotic models. Here is a quote from an article from 2018 in the CERNCOURIER "Gravitational hunt for extra dimensions" "Some modifications of general relativity, such as the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (DGP) model, involve the addition of extra dimensions accessible to gravity. If such extra dimensions are large, and thus not rolled up to a microscopic size as predicted by some beyond-Standard Model theories, part of the gravitational field would “leak” into the extra dimensions. Therefore, GWs arriving at detectors such as those of the LIGO and VIRGO observatories would be weaker than expected."
@TuckyBlue2 ай бұрын
45 minutes in and i just realized i’ve been watching this thing upside down
@pepperbytez81282 ай бұрын
More like northside south
@EmberClinton-iy5og2 ай бұрын
bc it didn't matter
@IsaacBlack-nw1ppАй бұрын
wait, how do you even do that?
@TuckyBlueАй бұрын
@@IsaacBlack-nw1pp phone screen lock
@SkyWriter25Ай бұрын
@@IsaacBlack-nw1pp Obviously, TuckyBlue is a 4D entity. 🙂🙃
@lisapizza50522 ай бұрын
He had the proof of what he'd seen, but nobody including himself noticed: he's facing right when he comes back from Shapeland
@MURDERPILLOW.2 ай бұрын
Ohhh thats clever
@Sashazur2 ай бұрын
You would think his friends and family members would have noticed? To us as 3D beings the change isn’t super noticeable, but to 2D beings it would be very obvious since they have asymmetrical “faces” (the side with the eye and mouth). If you’re a flatlander looking at A square’s “face”, his eye initially is to the left of his mouth, but it changes to the other side after he gets flipped in the higher dimension.
@FilmLadd2 ай бұрын
@@Sashazur The problem with this is that they can barely see anything, and spend their early years relying upon touch.
@marzipancutter81442 ай бұрын
@@FilmLadd Then how do they recognize each other? Their sight is supposed to be all blurry, but they never seem to confuse two squares for each other.
@FilmLadd2 ай бұрын
@@marzipancutter8144 They have sight recognition lessons to learn. Adults are better at it than the younglings.
@rowbeans-l1n2 ай бұрын
I would legit pay serious money to watch a rebooted Flatland triology with modern IMAX quality graphics.
@FilmLadd2 ай бұрын
I accept paypal and cashapp.
@rowbeans-l1n2 ай бұрын
@@FilmLadd Do you accept (possibly) human kidneys??
@FilmLadd2 ай бұрын
@@rowbeans-l1n Well... are they cooked?
@rowbeans-l1n2 ай бұрын
@@FilmLadd Do you want them to be...?
@mitsuruchan1480Ай бұрын
Lmao funniest interaction in the comment section fr
@jordanloux38832 ай бұрын
'Sees the massive baby furnace' Yeah, this explains a lot about Bill...
@Flowerbombs-135Ай бұрын
I don't understand this very much, can you explain?
@nailymoment1786Ай бұрын
@@Flowerbombs-135 Bill Cipher's home dimension is based off of the original story of Flatland. While it isn't implied Bill's dimension and the one in this film are the same dimensions, it's still kind of horrifying to think about.
@nailymoment1786Ай бұрын
I think I saw a comment somewhere that said "Do you think Bill was reshaped considering how round he is baby mode" or something along those lines.
@Flowerbombs-135Ай бұрын
@@nailymoment1786 Oh, thanks for explaining
@good-sofa2 ай бұрын
The fact that women are actually an impossibly overpowered weapon is so hilarious
@maxwell_edison2 ай бұрын
true to reality
@Taricus2 ай бұрын
--and yet considered to be a lower dimensional thing. They are essentially calling them 1D (lines), despite being 2D like everyone else (2D)
@thorjelly2 ай бұрын
@@Taricus Flatland was written in the 19th century partly as a criticism of Victorian values. The fact that women are lower status (and lower dimensional) than everybody else was originally meant to be satire.
@Taricus2 ай бұрын
@@thorjelly I know. It has a lot of satire in it. I love that book, especially because I was a math major in undergrad LOL! I tell people about it, but they just don't get it half the time. They tune out as soon as it sounds like geometry or graph theory LOL!
@2ikkerLeFurball2 ай бұрын
Why aren't the women in space land thin rectangular prisms!?!?
@abandonedtheatre2 ай бұрын
i originally watched this because of people saying how similar it was to the new Bill Cipher lore, but i actually have never been able to sit through a movie at full attention like this before. I genuinley thought I'd watch this, make a stupid joke about "wow guys bill cipher!!!!" and forget about it, but this has been the best movie ive probably ever watched before
@yourboy_BillCipher10 күн бұрын
"i want to show them the stars" ahh
@paxus_of_px59932 ай бұрын
I like how no flatlander notice that the A-square that has been transported back from 3rd dimension is flipped (as in mirrored like rotated against the 3rd dimension axis)
@CATel_2 ай бұрын
True. I noticed as well, since his bed was wrong
@815TypeSirius2 ай бұрын
The easiest way to test a higher dimension being is ask them to flip you but have them flip you back afterwards or you will starve to death.
@zitro222 ай бұрын
@@815TypeSirius could a 4D creature even touch us? There would probably 2 options if you tae 2D creatures as an example: 1. A 2D creature has no depth and therefore nothing a 3D creature could touch. 2. A 2D creature would be extreme fragile in 3D like a realy realy thin sheet of glass. By a 3D creature touching the 2D creature, the 2D creature would probably break into the third dimension. I would imagin something similar would happen if a 4D creature tries to touch a 3D creature.
@815TypeSirius2 ай бұрын
@@zitro22 i absolutely mute all the idiots who make comments at me.
@Kuwagattai2 ай бұрын
@@815TypeSiriuswhat?
@hunnyjar89372 ай бұрын
"Politics? I HATE politics!" no seconds later- "War is an extension of politics." Love this film
@sterlingfelker62952 ай бұрын
and it was War that killed the Sphere that hated politics.
@Intikus2 ай бұрын
«just as MURDER is an extension of *business*»
@kekero5407 күн бұрын
@@IntikusCEO of Messiah Inc. I wonder if king circle and a sphere are more similar.
@catslino5037Күн бұрын
"I don't want to be a great leader just a good person" just after comiting g3nocide is wild
@redundantPerson2 ай бұрын
One of the most cruel thing a fourth dimensional being could do to a human is flip them around, effectively mirroring us. All the proteins in our bodies would be mirrored as well, so food would probbably taste entirely diffrent (along with a lot of more detrimental side effects). Thats of course assuming the process of rotating us doesn't make all our organs fly out our new fourth dimensional sides.
@nemou49852 ай бұрын
Mirrored proteins wouldn't work with the ones in our biosphere. We would die.-
@nova-witchwood2 ай бұрын
Too many chiral proteins.
@emersonchaves5672 ай бұрын
Homochirality explained
@feuerlingАй бұрын
That's basically what happened to A Square
@user-ub5bg8qz1dАй бұрын
Kurt Vonnegut tried to explore what a 4D (the fourth dimension being time) would appear like to us and how it might communicate.
@cowyemrsox2 ай бұрын
The most profound bit in the story is when A square talks about the possibility of other dimensions and realities and A sphere shrugs it off and despite the enormous irony, he says those people in his 3-D world who say what A Square said are being illogical and implies they are mentally ill. Think about that...
@Dalton_Boardman20002 ай бұрын
Sphere must be subconsciously thinking "Shit, I accidentally taught this dude stuff I can't even comprehend."
@tahunuva42542 ай бұрын
Works the same way with fiction. Everyone thinks their own paradigm is the ultimate. But taking into account the infinitude of imaginary worlds out there, the likelihood that we're a dream approaches certainty.
@nemou49852 ай бұрын
That's a cool point in the original 1880's story
@cthulhufhtagn75202 ай бұрын
This would only be true if dreams contained fully actualized realities and weren't just dreams. But yes, this is the basic logic behind belief in the simulation hypothesis@@tahunuva4254
@Leibhaber832 ай бұрын
He said ignorance is bliss and I couldn’t agree more. Something we just weren’t meant to know
@macario18852 ай бұрын
I like the detail about their brains. Triangles have small brains (they are low-tier citizens, made to only follow orders); the general Triangle has a bigger brain, but it is visibly deteriorated (maybe because of his age and all the things that have screwed his mind along the years); circle senators have bigger brain cavities, but their brains themselves are small (sheep politicians, literally air-heads); president Circle has a slightly bigger brain, but the gear spinning around it is thin (he is smart enough to lead the others, but he's still unwise and foolish); only certain characters, like A Square, have big brains and thick gears.
@CATel_2 ай бұрын
Holt shit that level of detail! I didn't notice the gear thickness!!
@PeeperSnail2 ай бұрын
The irregular senator had a big brain and a decently thick gear. Poor guy.
@heyitszer02 ай бұрын
something interesting also is that President Circle has a noticeably bigger heart than the rest
@masterzoroark66642 ай бұрын
detail also welcome to shape racism (also quite a detail to add)
@T0B3573R2 ай бұрын
Brain size doesn’t automatically determine how smart someone is.. it’s the wrinkles.
@TheAweDude1Ай бұрын
One of the best case studies of world building ever. Everything, from the politics to the way the houses are built, is indicative of how a world like this would work.
@FilmLaddАй бұрын
Thank you.
@lillsyrra18 күн бұрын
@@FilmLadd I would really love a commentary-track by you explaining these details and the stories behind them! :>
@FilmLadd18 күн бұрын
@@lillsyrra Maybe I'll do that one day, thanks!
@zar-xen3 ай бұрын
Oh, i realized that at 1:21:47 that A. Square does in fact get to see Sphere's insides, but not the way either of them hoped. My man got DETONATED.
@spongerobert2 ай бұрын
I thought it might have been from the X-rays that the nuke produced
@xooplord2 ай бұрын
this part blew my mind honestly
@bradleyadams52522 ай бұрын
@@xooplordit also blew A Sphere's mind...
@litterbox0192 ай бұрын
he said he couldn't see anything a bit before cuz of him deteriorating from being in 3 dimensions for so long, and even then he got sent down the elevator before the detonation, so idk about that.
@iot92062 ай бұрын
17:43
@chaoticfrog94142 ай бұрын
I described this movie to my friend as fascist circles and acid trips to other dimensions and they thought I dreamed it and made it up, thank you for posting this on KZbin so I can prove them wrong and force them to watch a truly impactful movie and also the most bizarre movie I have ever seen
@chaoticfrog94142 ай бұрын
The first time we watched it was in geometry class and during lunch we all talked about how deep and meaningful it was but describing it to someone else is extremely hard
@FilmLadd2 ай бұрын
@@chaoticfrog9414 I'm glad you now can show everyone that you did not hallucinate this up and that, in fact, someone else did.
@PowerHungryFool2 ай бұрын
@@chaoticfrog9414 Now imagine trying to read the book this movie is based on and actually understanding anything lol
@VocalMabiMaple2 ай бұрын
@@PowerHungryFoolthe book is more precise than the movie. It's quite a fun read
@flashbacker89352 ай бұрын
this is the only way to describe this XD at first I was like oh wow this could be cool for schools.... haha yeaa NOPPPEEE. a pure 2 hours of laughter and insanity, ain't nothing like it
@josereyesbonilla40042 ай бұрын
“A 4th dimension?! That’s outrageous!” Yet here you trying to explain your 3rd dimension to a Flatlannder😂
@justinrain39614 ай бұрын
Watched with my partner, her first time watching Flatland. Her impression, "I am amazed and disgusted and impressed and blown away. And everything. And just God everything."
@Dexuz2 ай бұрын
In retrospective, the scene where A Square gets taken into 3D is magnificent, I compare it to Wall-E leaving into space and then the spaceship, a complete and drastic change of what we got accustomed to for a big portion of the movie. In a way, that's exactly what A Square felt, and we get to experience it as the audience.
@louzo51752 ай бұрын
Reminds me of a bill cypher animatic were he could see the 3rd diamention and they looked like stars
@Ilovebuzzsaws2 ай бұрын
Actually that is completely canon to Gravity Falls.@@louzo5175
@HooverDam19352 ай бұрын
That’s why I love this film
@TH3_INFID3L2 ай бұрын
Wall-E, one of the best movies from Disney
@icantthinkofaname81392 ай бұрын
God, watching this movie suddenly blow up and the comments section fill with praise is so amazing to see. I’ve always thought of this film as an underrated masterpeice.
@FilmLadd2 ай бұрын
Thank you. It received some praise back in 2007 but it was a different time from a social media standpoint.
@DrakeOolaАй бұрын
Here from the zip
@yourboy_BillCipher10 күн бұрын
here bc of gravity falls
@doplayxx83092 ай бұрын
A square sounding like owen wilson is what pulled me in
Hilarious how the president just spins around and talks and after, his kid gets thrown into the incinerator
@colelevel265410 ай бұрын
*president's son dies* President: "oh no. Anyway..."
@zackdrake87352 ай бұрын
Like a real politician using everything to there leverage, notice simply how much ol circle describes how he is a perfect leader... It was all a persasion
@dolphin14182 ай бұрын
@@zackdrake8735but their brains do get larger as they get more sides, it’s the cog to brain ratio, the triangles have absolutely tiny cogs
@T0B3573R2 ай бұрын
@@dolphin1418 Brain size doesn’t mean intelligence. It’s also how much stuff is in there, like, wrinkles.
@kornsuwin2 ай бұрын
@@dolphin1418 look at the circles' brains closer dude
@Abzy_FNG2 ай бұрын
That ending man. Hes been through so much, most of which he cant comprehend. Being sucked out of his dimension again, hes just broken and confused. He just pleads with whatevers out there. "Please, i need to meet my wife and kids in the north."
@Nileppez2 ай бұрын
In the book, A Square ends up in jail, going crazy, but here, the glowing point he encounters is a 4th-dimensional being. In other words, it's a happy ending because it symbolizes his transcendence to the fourth dimension, where he achieves more than what the three-dimensional sphere (forgot his name) attempted by gaining a higher understanding of reality. That's not the best explanation, but hopefully, it conveys the general idea. I'm not sure what other people think, but I like this ending better. The original was much more bleak. Cheers.
@Abzy_FNG2 ай бұрын
@Nileppez the original does see m more sad, but at least its definitive, but here, the open-endedness and ambiguity of it is more bleak for me. Although he MAY transcend to a 4th dimension, its not for sure, he could be so broken that he just can't go on.
@warnegoodman3 күн бұрын
@@Nileppez The sphere's name was sphere.
@mahrinui182 ай бұрын
My parents have a DVD copy of this signed by the director. They have never seen this film and have no idea where the DVD came from.
@FilmLadd2 ай бұрын
I sent it to them, probably
@Drenizko2 ай бұрын
@@FilmLadd Could you please send one to me tooö pleaseee
@FilmLadd2 ай бұрын
@@Drenizko They're no longer for sale, sorry
@Drenizko2 ай бұрын
@@FilmLadd thought so 😁 trying never hurts ;) maybe i will be able to find one somewhere online. Dope movie. Just found out about it 2 hours ago. Didn't expect to watch it until the end, love it and even get close with the characters. lol
@DetachedHat1799Ай бұрын
A 4d being put it in your home from a space anth from your space, now you shall become a preist of the 4th dimension
@tangogolf6784 Жыл бұрын
I watched this once in a high school computing class and have been trying to find proof of its existence since. Thank you.
@FilmLadd Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching! Please consider liking and subscribing if you haven't already.
@ShadowPack902 ай бұрын
There are two groups of people here. The people who knew about this before gravity falls fans realized it was referenced in gravity falls and the gravity falls fans
@fadeski282 ай бұрын
lol im the gravity falls fan
@xjood8052 ай бұрын
I forget the video, but somewhere on KZbin exists a video of a guy talking about Mr. Game and Watch from smash brother to contextualize living in 2d. He brought this movie up in the video and that's how I found it. Really wish I remember the video it was a banger
@EmberClinton-iy5og2 ай бұрын
gravity fan that foud this bc of billsifer and im so glad this was hold and the touch of religion with the shitty Quality I love it
@Marceline_Raynes2 ай бұрын
I've never watched gravity falls (I've heard of it obvs), where is it referenced in the show?
@Fjdjfjsz929382 ай бұрын
@@Marceline_Raynespretty sure it’s from the book of bill
@thegrimghoul2 ай бұрын
I like how you can see that the circle’s brains are physically smaller
@GoofballPaul2 ай бұрын
Imagine your boss calling you "generic [your ethnicity] person"
@fornowhere72642 ай бұрын
thank you generic black guy Tyrone "It is Timone sir"
@LucasBucurАй бұрын
no not really since A square and B square had a triangle father
@nitrodark70272 ай бұрын
The CGI still holds up and doesnt feel "bad"
@FilmLadd2 ай бұрын
Well, you can tell it was just one guy working on it
@TheHeyGuy-e5o2 ай бұрын
you know a movie called killer bean forever? The art stile feels equal in both
@wingedfeline53792 ай бұрын
quite an accomplishment for one guy
@FilmLadd2 ай бұрын
@@wingedfeline5379 Thank you.
@mitsuruchan1480Ай бұрын
@@FilmLaddwas it made entirely by you? I really want to know the backstory!
@itstiny. Жыл бұрын
Saw this ten years ago in my 6th grade math class. The movie did nothing but confuse me back then and it still does today, I guess my monkey brain is destined for working a forklift job after all. If you somehow come across this comment, I hope life is going good, Mr. Fugate.
@nil0bject8 ай бұрын
May the winds be at your back, friends
@konflicted17298 ай бұрын
We can help you friend : )
@colelevel26548 ай бұрын
Lol don't feel bad. It's pretty confusing
@justinjiang81765 ай бұрын
the fact that you find it confusing means you're thinking about it in the right way.
@evanharrison40542 ай бұрын
It's an honest job. Without forklift drivers...well, we'd be carrying stuff by hand, one by one. This sentiment of the modern age, that only the high thinkers are owed respect and a living wage, it sickens me. Where I live, there's a saying: "The smartest city man doesn't eat if the peasant stops sh*tting." ...it sounds better in my language. Not to mention that I seem to detect a huge correlation between overall misery in society and just how open that "economic scissors" is. Even if they don't realize it, rich people would be a lot happier if the rest of us weren't stewing in uncertainty and inevitable dispossession. They are afraid to go out, lest they run into poor people, they resent everyone beneath them because of the sideways glances of "dude, you walking around in mink coat and I hafta decide if I eat butter or bread today", probably that's why most of them need a pill to sleep and a one to wake up. It wasn't like that, back when a simple job could get even a "monkey brain"(your words) at least a modest house and a modest car and a modest wife and children. The way we stand, if you don't have a house by the time you leave high school, it's a statistical impossibility that you are ever gonna have one, barring a lottery windfall or a dead relative's...bequeathings?(I'm almost certain I'm not using that word properly...) Jus' sayin'. If rich people want to be happier, they probably should give us more stuff. Not gonna happen, but that's what would help. Until a forklift driver like you, and even a grocery bagger can build a existence from their honest work, things are just going to continue to deteriorate. ...sorry, rant over. I just like to type and I feel rather passionate about this subject.
@Inversion10080 Жыл бұрын
I just realized, since the flatlanders' faces are basically just one-dimensional (at least as seen by other flatnaders) there is no way for their mouths to bend as seen by other flatlanders. It is impossible for the 2d muscles in their face to move the mouth to curve to make a smile or a frown. So they always just look at each other with that blank look on their face. A. Square, showing any emotion at all: ______ ᣄ | ¯¯¯¯
@FilmLadd Жыл бұрын
Emotions are mostly expressed through action / movement / voice rather than facial expression. And you are correct, that was the rationale for not having them do things like smile or frown. It would have simply been a cheap trick strictly for the audience's sake, with no in-universe reason.
@СветланаКузьменко-з4и2 ай бұрын
@@FilmLadd as a nerd i am, how did a woman eat herself?
@FilmLadd2 ай бұрын
@@СветланаКузьменко-з4и Uhm
@RandomChannel9822 ай бұрын
@@СветланаКузьменко-з4иthe woman heard “wanna break from the ads” for the thousandth time on spotiline
@andersonhernandez61122 ай бұрын
@@FilmLadd😮♾️
@vincentclark57392 ай бұрын
Every time A Square had a moment of epiphany while in 3D, it made me feel how we probably would if we glimpsed into 4D. Fully seeing ourselves from before and after our deaths, fully understanding what it means to live and die and a better understanding of the 3D world you just cannot get without stepping up. This kind of sci fi is great for imagining what possibly could be there, if anything is there. We can totally sympathize with A Square
@lyxandrast0ttr0n1x810 ай бұрын
I never expected A Square to sound like Owen Wilson but I can dig it
@TurboKnight8658 ай бұрын
Thought the same thing
@CadetGriffin2 ай бұрын
He sounds a lot like Lightning McQueen from the Cars trilogy.
@jack_tle2 ай бұрын
@@CadetGriffin you wont believe who voices mcqueen
@ff0066spooky2 ай бұрын
I can't believe I just now found this here on youtube. I watched this when I was a little kid, and truly, I feel like this film was a break into the person I am today... someone that just *has* to know and understand everything. I always thought that it was a fever dream, and could never fully remember what the film was even about. All that I could remember were the bizarre CG graphics and exestential themes, and probably had something to do with math, so I could never even find the name of the novel it was based on. But, here it is in all of its glory! Watching through this now as a young adult was incredible. It's truly satisfying... I finally have closure as to who that weird sphere guy that was always burned into the back of my brain is (I found A. Sphere to be visually entrancing as a child... truly a core memory) and I can even come to understand the art for all its merits. I would like to say that I love the visual style so so much... I have so much I could say about how well executed the visuals are aesthetically and thematically but I don't really want to write a novel in here right now LOL. I'm definetly going to make all of my friends watch this with me when I get the chance. Thank you Ladd for opening my eyes to the world of sciences and making this available for all to see easily.
@Moe_Posting_Chad2 ай бұрын
"The secret philosophy is to die." Or maybe it is more accurate to say the secret philosophy is to prepare to die. There is more to the world out here brother. The void doesn't seem real even though they insist it is and imagination seems more real than anything even though they insist it is the least real thing possible. Think for yourself, make your own conclusions, challenge your own beliefs periodically searching for false beliefs we have overlooked. The dragon is hidden, but it is still a dragon, and there is one of those nasty serpents in all of us. For good and for ill. Break it like you would break a horse, so it will no longer resist you, and then develop a relationship with it like we do with our beloved pupper frens. Dragon is either not understood or misunderstood, not a force to fear or subjugate.
@TacoKing752 ай бұрын
@@Moe_Posting_Chadwhat
@DeathDealer_10212 ай бұрын
Did I ghostwrite this or something? In all seriousness, I agree. This was impossibly important in shaping me into who I am, and I'm just now realizing that.
@Moe_Posting_Chad2 ай бұрын
@@TacoKing75 Brilliant take.
@ff0066spooky2 ай бұрын
@Moe_Posting_Chad I love this comment so much. I'm happy to say that my dragon is my best friend and that I wouldn't have it any other way. To live is to learn, to write and to love your dragon, because one day death will take that privellege of thought away
@P1n3appl_6IXАй бұрын
A sphere: let this flatlander touch you Carlton: 😟
@comiarts25 күн бұрын
A sphere: don't worry it won't hurt you, it doesn't have any side effects-thatweknowof
@yeetbigly58272 ай бұрын
I… don’t know what I just watched, but I enjoyed it immensely
@BootlegSeraphim Жыл бұрын
Of all the things that could have happened, seeing an HD upload of my favorite movie by the creator itself was not what I expected. This is basically my Christmas Present! The chatroom I moderate for Flatland Discussions is going a bit Hogwild at the moment, We're all ecstatic to see Flatland in this quality!! Thank you, Ladd.
@FilmLadd Жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@derroz3157 Жыл бұрын
LADD this is cool indeed!!
@derroz3157 Жыл бұрын
IM A 4 D LAD AND YOU ARE A 3D LAD
@JohnnyTwoFingers Жыл бұрын
Where is this chat room???? 🙏
@MatthewElvey10 ай бұрын
Alphabet usually censors URLs posted here, @@JohnnyTwoFingers . @BootlegSeraphim, what can we search for to find it?
@andrewevenson26572 ай бұрын
I love that when he came back to flatland he was flipped from presumably landing in it facing the opposite direction, but I was expecting them to comment about it saying he looks different or something.
@skalbagge31312 ай бұрын
I'm just gonna hope someone from the 4th dimension won't take me away for an experiment
@Atylonisus2 ай бұрын
GREETINGS SKALBAGGE GAZE UPON MY PERFECT HYPERCUBE BODY
@DetachedHat1799Ай бұрын
ive been there
@yourboy_BillCipher10 күн бұрын
im hoping i will be i need to see 4d
@jabel6434 Жыл бұрын
Thanks Ladd for making the film in the first place and putting it into the public domain now
@FilmLadd Жыл бұрын
You're welcome! If you haven't already, please like and subscribe! I'm trying to get to 1k subscribers to get this channel monetized. Thank you!
@thehumblewolf Жыл бұрын
Oh you’re gonna grow fast
@underarmbowlingincidentof1981Ай бұрын
watched it 3am half asleep had to rewatch it 3pm fully awake to make sure this video really exists Top notch!!!
@Apher69 Жыл бұрын
"Ahhh! Ahhh! Oh God it's a woman!" 🤣
@Apher69 Жыл бұрын
Time: 1:28:59
@kiwitheparakeettiger1277 Жыл бұрын
in 2nd or 3rd grade, i remember my class heading down to the library to watch this movie. seeing the 2d guy talk to the 3d guy caused me to think differently about how i understand the world around me. this genuinely changed my perspective on the universe in a way i can’t quite describe. thank you man. i’m so glad i found this. update: who let a second grader watch this? it’s so much darker than i remember. it’s amazing but like holy crap
@FilmLadd11 ай бұрын
It's been my experience that kids don't notice the darkness in something like, for instance, the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory or The Wizard of Oz, so I can see kids not getting the darker elements of Flatland. But to be clear, I did not think of or make Flatland as a film for children.
@jenniferlynn3299 ай бұрын
Ditto. I had to read the book for 10th grade geometry in 1986. Others picked different books. I think this book helped open my eyes and thinking, as it did for you.
@litterbox0192 ай бұрын
@@FilmLadd probably because of a stigma with animated = for children
@andrewprahst25292 ай бұрын
I read this book as a pdf on my iPod touch on an airplane when I was maybe 12 years old. Over a decade later I still remember it so well. Enough to remember that in the book, Square says that educated people know females are actually very thin parallelograms. Speaking of which, A-square's wife is kind of a baddie. I think this interpretation of the peace cry is pretty hot. Same thing with that thing the imprisoned line did, morbid as it was.
@gillianault99552 ай бұрын
I never thought I'd agree that a line was a baddie but here we are.
@exotic14052 ай бұрын
Down bad for a line segment
@comiarts25 күн бұрын
*sighs* Adds a square's wife to the hear me out cake
@kekero54019 күн бұрын
Hear me out on a very thin parallelogram is wild
@lunyxappocalypse707116 күн бұрын
Yes, Specifically segments of parallelograms.
@camramaster2 ай бұрын
Do not watch this while you have a fever. My dreams were wild.
@willisstupid67822 ай бұрын
I am actively watching this with a fever rn
@ghdwk55962 ай бұрын
Can confirm, also do not watch while extremely stoned. My reality was wild.
@riverdantes52812 ай бұрын
I also have one right now. This should be fun.
@kekero5402 ай бұрын
I’m on that za
@rinna65752 ай бұрын
@@ghdwk5596 ...shit I wanna try that now.
@thehumblewolf Жыл бұрын
I’m incredibly amazed to find this in hd. My 11 yr old was watching a ytber make 4d shapes in Minecraft and couldn’t understand so I showed him this 😅
@FilmLadd Жыл бұрын
Hope it helped and thank you for watching!
@kekero5407 күн бұрын
After I read this comment I realized we are living in the future 😂
@steampunkscientistАй бұрын
Getting lost in KZbin is fun when films like these exist... 10/10
@0iThere2 ай бұрын
This movie felt like a fever dream watching this in my 8th grade math class just to understand 2d and 3d shapes but im glad to be reminded that this exists after so long
@T0B3573R2 ай бұрын
I remember watching this as a child, I had an obsession with dimensions.. this movie was my first glimpse into how messed up life can be. This movie has so many messed up concepts woven together into something that’s both beautiful and hopeless. It has themes of classism, sexism, and racism strewn through it. It becomes more and more messed up the more you think about it.. There’s genocides, infanticides, extremist religious practices, abuse, suicide, and everything.. just feels so wrong. But it’s horrific in a way that makes sense. This story is messed up, but it NEEDS to be messed up to make the revelation that A Square exists in a universe with possibly infinite dimensions. His entire world has been shattered.
@autumn9482 ай бұрын
Dude, dimensions are so cool, definitely get back into that if you haven't already. On the subject, you should also check out numerical bases! Those being alrernatives to base 10, or decimal, like binary (base 2), hexadecimal (base 16), ternary (base 3), negadecimal (base -10), unary (base 1), base -1, base square-root-of-two, base i-1 (that's "i" as in the imaginary unit), base 2i (the quarter-imaginary base), base phi (the golden ratio), base 1.5, base 64, and many many more! (if you couldn't already tell, I'm kinda obsessed with numerical bases 😅)
@brutalbunny2 ай бұрын
the way there's like, 3 or 4 plot lines that this could have gone down and instead it ended the way it did. hello? am i dreaming?? can anyone hear me? its so cold
@cheesypancakes87562 ай бұрын
Like what even happened at the end? I'm guessing Flatland got bombed but why did he end up meeting a 4D creature😭 shouldn't he be dead?
@Drenizko2 ай бұрын
@@cheesypancakes8756 exactly. monarch from pointland said when they die they go to the 2d land. So maybe A square died and went to 4d land (heaven)
@tonyc945 Жыл бұрын
I remember in high school, some 50 odd years ago, reading Abbott's Flatland. I was fascinated by the analogies inherent in the different dimensions. Then a few years later in College, I wrote a short story about Quadraman. It was about a fourth dimensional creature who I denoted as God. Omniscient, Omnipresent, etc. Finding this movie on KZbin brought back all those memories. Thank you for uploading this.
@FilmLadd Жыл бұрын
There seems to be some mathematical lodestones that are destined to be discovered over and over. Thank you for watching! Please like and subscribe if you haven't already. Thanks!
@ananyasharma2834 Жыл бұрын
i really want to read your short story
@cinderling547210 ай бұрын
Me too! ❤
@tonyc94510 ай бұрын
@@ananyasharma2834 Thank you! It was so long ago, after many moves, I don't have it anymore. I know, I would love to be able to read it again.
@tonyc94510 ай бұрын
@@cinderling5472 Thank you! It's been so long I don't have it anymore.
@carpainter9497 Жыл бұрын
1:30:30 Monarch of Pointland, the most powerful being in all of fiction... Untouchable, invulnerable, invincible.
@hsd67162 ай бұрын
idc, batgos solos
@Xmaobu2 ай бұрын
@@hsd6716who tf is that?
@hsd67162 ай бұрын
@@Xmaobu the power of prep time has allowed batman to ascend to goshood
@JeremiahWdabullfrog2 ай бұрын
You could say all other fiction is pointless.
@stm78102 ай бұрын
sould or life removal as well as any geometric powers that moves the point defeats the monarch. tier 11 c is wierd but not unbeatable.
@operationfrogurt2 ай бұрын
The music almost masks how fucking terrifying this is.
@azel70562 ай бұрын
I still love the theory that Bill Cypher might of been a Low/High tier Citizen that was Broken mentality Because He felt to constricted with the rules of the world…So he burned it to the ground and (Somehow) broke free from his dimension and became the Unhinge Triangle we all know and love😂 Edit: Guys, I made this comment because it was a fun theory I just learned awhile ago, Thought it would be fun to relate to this video, Chill in the comments, Pls and thank you
@snakeoi81892 ай бұрын
Glad to see another after The Book of Bill (or just in general). The premise of Bill's denial in the details of the destruction of his world us fascinating. Especially how his parents tried to stop him from having those visions.
@rossbob42152 ай бұрын
Have you read the Flat Dreams story? You might like it lol
@kayak25022 ай бұрын
I KNEW SOMEONE WOULD TALK ABOUT BILL
@maximum_axiom2 ай бұрын
that is the exact reason i even came here oh my god 😭
@lotusbloom68002 ай бұрын
😂 LOLLLL😂
@scrungybungingi51712 ай бұрын
I read this book while studying mathematics. I enjoyed how the book wasn't just an exploration of 2D life but also a criticism of eugenics, which at the time (1884) was a popular viewpoint (the term was coined the year before!). Shapes breed in order to have offspring of a higher side count or 'class', which ties into Victorian beliefs about social class. You also have how women are presented, the effect of dogma on the proliferation of new ideas, etc. I shouldn't have to explain that eugenics is bad, it's actually one of the core philosophies of Nazism (along with racism).
@FilmLadd2 ай бұрын
No one should have to, but unfortunately if we don't every now and then it may take root
@wj11jam782 ай бұрын
@@FilmLadd Couldn't disagree more. The flatlanders take it for granted that irregularity is bad while killing children with reshaping. You must always re-assess your ideas to judge their value, otherwise you can find yourself mindlessly trapped by harmful ideas. I'm obviously not saying that eugenics is good. I'm saying that the statement that eugenics is bad requires justification just like any other.
@gothoverheaven62392 ай бұрын
@@wj11jam78 except when words have established definitions, you can find those 'justifications' within the definitions of the words themselves and the context they arise in. eugenics, by definition, is selectively restricting human reproduction in order to breed out 'unwanted' traits. historically, which is the context that the word eugenics was founded in, these traits are things like skin color, homosexuality, disabilities, and even poor economic status-- All of which are considered 'undesirable/degenerate' traits in the context of eugenics. i dont think i need to explain why this is nonsensical thinking that is just fascism at its core, and used to justify the extermination and marginalization of minority groups. tldr; you cant debatelord eugenics mmkay?
@BookWyrmOnAString2 ай бұрын
@@gothoverheaven6239 i think you two are in agreement and haven't realized it
@aone90502 ай бұрын
@@gothoverheaven6239mathematics proves god limited the number of dimensions to 2 kinda argument. You're relying on concepts as accepted by modern society. Not that I think eugenics is good either, just that you have to rely on more than something as simplistic as "inalienable human rights" on their own.
@michaeloconnor97392 ай бұрын
I watched this on my phone and I kept thinking my selfie camera cutout was a character
@chraliras2 ай бұрын
I love how sexism and racism feels pointless in every dimension
@exotic1405Ай бұрын
I mean for woman there are 2 points 1. A 2. B
@Jonloo14 ай бұрын
This movie is absolutely fascinating to me. It's a very strange mish-mash of concepts, but I think that because of that the movie's presentation id incredibly unique and creative. It breaks a lot of these concepts and creatures to their most basic form so just about anyone can understand them, while still implementing this strangeness into its world. I can easily picture plenty of movies about someone being taken out of their world and shown just how much further reality goes, but this one in particular grabs my attention because of its story and presentation working together. The CG is strange. It's not the most amazing, I can picture how these things are animated more than I can picture how they're alive, but it's still used to present a surrealness that I think suits its world really well! I guess what I'm trying to say is that I can tell people had a fun time thinking of and working on the visuals for this movie, it really shines through. There's the story as well, which I liked, but because of that I feel like I don't actually have that much to say. I like A Sphere being such a careless, self-centered dirtbag in such a comical way. (I made a sped up gif of that scene where he's typing his report, that's how fun I find him.) I don't know what it is about Flatland exactly, but I think I like it so much because it's so unique. Yeah, there's another Flatland film, yeah there's a Flatland book, but I don't think anything else will ever come close to the unique surrealness of this film. There's never gonna be a Flatland-like for all I know. I don't care if this movie's not a masterpiece, but it's definitely special. It's special to me in no way another movie could be. I love that more than I could love any 10/10 film.
@skirdus3672 ай бұрын
the "peace cry" the women make is adorable
@thatoneflaregun3167Ай бұрын
I love the war cry better
@camtheratman2 ай бұрын
If I didnt watch this in the middle of the day I would think I made this up, I love it
@FilmLadd2 ай бұрын
You still may have made it up
@camtheratman2 ай бұрын
@@FilmLadd honestly i dont doubt that LMFAO /lh /j
@MattMcIrvin2 ай бұрын
Popular synopses of "Flatland" usually just talk about A Square's encounter with the Sphere because they're using it for mathematical or scientific exposition. This is the first time I've seen someone make a serious crack at adapting the first half of the book, which is a kind of brutal satire of 19th-century society.
@kurtreber98132 ай бұрын
There's a second half?
@pokemonfanmario76942 ай бұрын
@@kurtreber9813the second half IS the parts between A.Sphere and A.Square, the first half is what this movie includes - showing flstland society, people, how they live.
@kekero5407 күн бұрын
The fact a lot of it is actually not that bad coming from a 19th century person. Reconfiguration sounds like a metaphor for the schooling system at the time.
@saltytriscuit896 Жыл бұрын
Why hasn’t this film been memed yet?
@snurgumwurgum82388 ай бұрын
because it is already a meme.
@michaelsaunders14007 ай бұрын
@@snurgumwurgum8238 I'm not so sure. I haven't seen this at all in meme circles... ...I swear to God, no pun intended
@snurgumwurgum82387 ай бұрын
@@michaelsaunders1400 Meme; Memetics, used to mean something other than internet jokes. look up the metal gear solid 2 A.I. conversations.
@TejasSriram-b4z5 ай бұрын
@@snurgumwurgum8238 now, after you commented it is a meme
@glumbortango71822 ай бұрын
It's the most "Bowling alley when you get a Strike" movie you could possibly imagine
@danilanik-limedude8 ай бұрын
As I understood it, in the end, when the war between the Republic and the Northern Country began, Space had already begun to destroy the flat world, as the corpses of soldiers began to disappear and in the end the inhabitants of Space pulled A square up. Not to the north, but up!
@colelevel26547 ай бұрын
The way I see it the 4d beings contacted A Square at the end. The mysterious glow points, the trapezoid that came back to life, the guy that looked like A Square passing him at the end, I think it's all cuz of the 4th dimension being the time dimension.
@wwg20052 ай бұрын
I thought this too!!! @@colelevel2654
@MeepChangeling2 ай бұрын
@@colelevel2654 I'd agree with you, except this movie is about spacial dimensions. Time, while commonly called "the fourth dimension" isn't a 4th spacial diminution. Our reality has three spacial dimensions and one temporal dimension.
@SweetCheshirePuss2 ай бұрын
@@MeepChangeling Assuming 3D understanding of dimensionality is correct
@pokemonfanmario76942 ай бұрын
@@colelevel2654Time and Space are seperate dimensions courtesy of Einsteins Special Relativity. While time can be attributed as "the fourth dimension" its more accurate to seperate it into it being the firdt temporal dimension - it is clearer that way. On that note, the entire point of Flatland is specitically about Spatial dimensions, I don't think temporal dimensions were even known when the original novel was released back in 1880. Thus A.Square is 100% referring to the spatial version, which the Spacelanders simply cannot observe just like we cannot. And as a side note, if someone says the fifth dimension is "parallel universes", they have no fucking clue what dimensions even are, do not listen to them.
@OtisLePoOtisАй бұрын
I first saw this movie when I was 12. 8 years ago in 2016. Now I'm 20 years old, the movie has been really formative for who I am today. For that I really need to thank you.
@B.K.-yw3oxАй бұрын
Otis, thank you for sharing. can you talk a little more how its been formative for you please?
@RadioactiveBluePlatypus18 күн бұрын
Oh I saw your review of the film you made 3 years ago! Well I didn't watch it 3 years ago, the video was 3 years old when I watched it. It was cool!
@UmbraeNacht Жыл бұрын
A. Sphere is so expressive despite only having eyes and a pac-man mouth! Also great is seeing more Spacelanders than just the sphere. Just wish there was less gore and spinning cameras.
@someniam8021 Жыл бұрын
I agree!
@FilmLadd Жыл бұрын
It's been a while since I made the film, but as I am generally an "anti-spinner" as well, my reasoning for it in Spaceland was to shadow the bewilderment of A-Square. At the time I felt that Spaceland had to have a complete visual break from Flatland. It may or may not have worked, depending on your point of view.
@janebrandt4526 Жыл бұрын
She does have at least 259 points.
@CannedLettuceJuice2 ай бұрын
Hello Gravity Falls fandom ^^
@Lordodragonss2 ай бұрын
HAH! Hello!
@andrewevenson26572 ай бұрын
Not a fan of gravity falls, I’m just a nerd who thinks the concept of 2 dimensional life is very fascinating. And this movie slaps
@Alixturned2 ай бұрын
@@andrewevenson2657ok? Like we don’t need to know???
@djt080319962 ай бұрын
I'm a member of the GF fandom, but I didn't even hear about that theory until the algorithm brought me here
@Mk905792 ай бұрын
Hello😅
@MultiMusicMan5 күн бұрын
I didn’t know there was such a following for a little old book written by an English professor in the 1880’s! Amazing to see.
@AnnetteEllington Жыл бұрын
Most chilling last words _Shhh, ignorance is bliss..._ - A-Sphere
@TH3_INFID3L2 ай бұрын
DEAD
@twinsgardening896 Жыл бұрын
Time stamps for flashing lights and motion-sickness inducing spinning. 26:23 - 26:31 has his brain flashing and shaking as the camera zooms in on his neurons with dial-up noises playing until 27:20 - 32:10 a white light strobes across the screen starting at 15 seconds apart, then strobing when the king of Lineland demands A. Square prove what he's saying. All the while the people of Lineland light up whenever they speak. This scene ends with A. Square being peirced through the eye by the King of Lineland, and spinning rapidly until he wakes up in bed with his kids yelling. 38:10:16 has A. Square zipping through the marketplace so the talls go by in a blurry flash at the top and bottom of the screen. 46:09 - 46:25 The camera starts rapidly spinning to follow President Circle as he spins. 50:37 - 50:50 the camera spins and A. Square flashes white as A. Sphere pokes in repeatedly in the stomach from the 3rd Dimension. A Square is screaming during this. 51:19 - 51:52 The camera spins and flashes rapdily as A. Square is lifted out of Flatland. 58:49 - 58:52: The camera spins along with A Sphere a he leave Flatland again 59:16 - 59:20 The camera spins again 1:02:26 - 1:38:07 The camera spins as they come in to land at Messiah Incorporated 1:03:50 - 1:04:25 the camera spins again 1:04:33 - 1:11:45 The lights flicker irregularly throughout and flash as the desk shakes while A. Sphere types. The room also spins after 1:06-something. 1:06:10 - 1:06:13 light strobe as A Sphere takes flash photos of A Square 1:11:55 - 1:13:28 The camera spins as other characters enter enter the room, then as they descend in the elevator. Lights then flash as they fly and enter the room with flash photography. 1:13:28 - 1:19:15 Constant flahing light from endless flash photogragy at all time, plus the camera pinning. A. Square becomes incresingly more sicker from the force of gravity and falls over. 1:19:22 - 1:19:45 We zoom in on A. Square's spinning and glitching eye as the background swirls and spins. 1:20:40 - 1:21:46 Red lights flash as ships fire on eachother in the sky with lazers. 1:21:46 The screen flashes white as a bomb is dropped, and we see A Sphere's insides against the white background. 1:22:28 - 1:25:44 More flashing red and green lights as ships fire on eachother, then an explosion, and the screen begins to shake violently with more lights flashing. We see A Sphere's car, with a message highlighted on the screen, "A Sphere is dead! Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. No acceptance. Revenge" 1:25:44 - 1:27:08 A Square glitches as he falls back to Flatland, then falls through and into streams of white mathmatical equations falling past. The music gets louder than is necessary. 1:31:49 - 1:32:07 One of A Sphere's eyes pops out and the camera starts to spin. 1:34:24 - 1:34:47 The camera spazzes out and swirls around absurdly fast as A Square's wife roars to knock out all the guards. 1:35:38 - 1:36:01 The screen shakes as a smaller bomb goes off, then triangles in flashing colors stream past.
@FilmLadd Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for doing this! I appreciate your help.
@BookWyrmOnAString2 ай бұрын
This should be pinned
@nemou49852 ай бұрын
So basically every single moment I also think 3D world was made disconcerting on purpose to show A Square's perspectives (all the reflections and lights which didn't exist on his world)
@E7XEEАй бұрын
A teacher played this movie for us once in 7th grade and the entire time I felt like I was having an aneurism and that I made this movie up in my head
@FilmLaddАй бұрын
That could still be the case.
@KatamariOpeo Жыл бұрын
I've formed friendships over this movie, I'm beyond ecstatic to see it in such high quality. Thank you for uploading this!
@FilmLadd Жыл бұрын
You're very welcome! Please like, subscribe, and share!
@ecdetrick4560 Жыл бұрын
Such a wonderful piece!! I really love the scene where the x-axis attacked and bombed the messiah inc. , A sphere was so calm facing the end of the country and his death……love his last words. Disappointment at people’s foolishness and cowardice towards the x-axis, he just sat down and waiting, alone in the evacuated messiah building, to witness ‘another little war’. I would say that A sphere is my favorite character, though I felt a bit uncanny about A sphere totally denied A square’s idea about the possible existence of higher dimensions. The storyline and world building is definitely brilliant and very impressive, the old fashioned 90s CGI animation fits unexpectedly well with the atmosphere and it's also cool and beautiful. It is also really amazing that the whole animation was made by only one person. This indie film is surely a remarkable piece in history.
@Gob998 Жыл бұрын
It does make sense though the reason A sphere denied it was because he never saw or thought about it or he said it to not be in trouble what if 4d beings enter spaceland i do know one thing A sphere or the council knows something we do not
@ecdetrick4560 Жыл бұрын
@@Gob998 I was thinking an advanced society as the spaceland is would have mathematicians or scientists proposing that probability and might have already become a popular culture thing as we’ve seen in our world. Lots of educational videos and sci-fi stuff talking about higher dimensions. As the CEO of the Messiah Inc which is responsible for the flatland project, A sphere’s denial kinda confused me. Though these are my thoughts it doesn’t do any harm to the story and character development.
@imsorryforchangingmynameso61110 ай бұрын
This is so real
@sold0ut2106 ай бұрын
@@ecdetrick4560 The real meat and potatoes of that scene is that A Sphere actually realizes that A Square spoke the truth about the existence of a fourth dimension. In fact, it *broke* A Sphere. That's why he simply chose to sit there, as the bombs went off, declaring that "ignorance is bliss". He spent so long thinking himself the pinnacle of creation *and* the pinnacle of his people that it made him lethargic until he simply gave up.
@bencook10682 ай бұрын
Maybe in Spaceland, culture around the fourth dimension is similar to Flatland’s treatment of the concept of a third dimension. 4D being a concept known only to a few elite, and otherwise considered heresy, with anyone preaching of its existence being locked up or killed.
@indisputable3Ай бұрын
I love the subtle hints of A Sphere's narcissism. "makes me puny by comparison" causes his pupils to get smaller, indicating contempt
@kassandrax23222 ай бұрын
Glad to see I'm not the only one who came back to this because of Bill Cipher and his new book.
@Xmaobu2 ай бұрын
but now the question I have. How can bill see the stars if he must have a 3 dimensional eye then? and that means his father and mother must have created a 3D object in a 2D plane which is basically impossible unless a 3D being inserted it varies a some sort of surgery between a infinitely thin object and if, for WHY?! get what I mean?
@CATel_2 ай бұрын
@Xmaobu No, we saw A squares perspective. They can see 3D as well, they just need to be lifted out. It is possible that bill gained enough power to edit his being to "optimise" his eye to look into the 3rd dimension. When A sphere was trying to explain sight to A square, he said having an eye inside himself. If we look at Bill, he has exactly that. An eye in the middle of his body.
@turnip22032 ай бұрын
welp he does have his eye in the middle of his body on his insides, so to speak
@FrenchToastWaffle2 ай бұрын
A Sphere said something about how A Square would need an eye on his insides. Bill has an eye on the inside. If Bill were normal like the other flatlanders he'd probably look like this: /\ o \ /____\ But instead he looks like this /\ /👁\ /____\ So maybe he was constantly looking upward?
@Drenizko2 ай бұрын
@@FrenchToastWaffle maybe he was disfigured at birth and didnt get the OP done
@chraliras2 ай бұрын
1:04:30 *beautiful, otherworldly music playing* Stay there. I have to write my after action report *Violently begins slamming his tentacles on the keyboard*
@Sea_SwordАй бұрын
This is something i would have been forced to watch in middle school, but now i find myself wanting to see it a third time. Well done!
@FilmLaddАй бұрын
Thank you! Be sure to like so the algorithm will show it to others
@zeestall802 Жыл бұрын
I found this on accident. But I'm so glad I did. I love this movie!❤
@FilmLadd Жыл бұрын
Thank you for finding it and for the kind words!
@argonwheatbelly637 Жыл бұрын
"By accident", "On purpose"; but, yes, this is an awesome movie!
@almerakbar Жыл бұрын
This movie and its "stylistic choices" is a work of art ❤
@imstupid8802 ай бұрын
Imagine God plucking you from your dimension and showing you another smaller dimension where you'd be considered a god, then taking you to their realm of gods, only for them to call you insane when you suggest there may be gods above them who do the exact same thing as them.
@bitescratchbeg2 ай бұрын
god, i absolutely ADORE the idea of actually living in the 2nd dimension. all this talk of the dimension itself but nothing about how life would be like living in it. i love this so much; both the concept and the movie itself.
@hatlessgojira2 ай бұрын
honnestly and i love the concept of something being in an incomprehensible reality. i mean i could never even comprehend what 4nd spaces might be like
@bitescratchbeg2 ай бұрын
@@hatlessgojira yeah, its awesome. for all we know this could be a documentary. like, were living our lives in the third dimension, and a 4th dimension creature may ponder what itd be like to only live with three dimensions. same thing, just as we dont know whats really happening, they dont either; but it still could be real
@erics37372 ай бұрын
If you like this, then get this book: The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World. It is about a fully functional society, biology, chemistry, technology in a 2-D world. How the body/organs work (zippered surfaces), technology (batteries work BUT no motors as magnetism requires 3-D), planetary orbits are flat out (no pun intended) weird. Music, a method to create books - a gem.
@yourboy_BillCipher10 күн бұрын
fr, pieces of paper are js tiny flatlands atp lmao.
@navigatorbree Жыл бұрын
This was so good, oh my goodness. A. Sphere’s whole deal was hilarious
@jaggerbushOG2 ай бұрын
I took a break from this at the dream at 0:30 and took a nap myself. I've watched just 2 min and now im making excuses like, i want to eat dinner first. I just dont want this to end. This has absolutely been my happiest on KZbin since its creation.
@Ohokok_channeledition2 ай бұрын
This whole film is both a marvel, and a horrifying dystopia. Amazing job!
@ZillaStevenson Жыл бұрын
I still have my DVD! THANK YOU for making this fantastic movie easily available and shareable to all!
@FilmLadd Жыл бұрын
Thank you too!
@creekycabinet86612 ай бұрын
I can’t believe a random movie I watched in school for 10 minutes somehow made me so interested in this
@JS-vi6tq Жыл бұрын
Everyone here talks about how enjoy the science part of it, which I do, but the humor is so great too!
@RainStripes2 ай бұрын
I felt high for the first time in my life by watching this cinematic masterpiece. I don't know how on earth to describe it.
@SeptemberStranger28Ай бұрын
I know I already commented, but I would absolutely ADORE seeing A Square playing that 4d minigolf game. I don't care if he doesn’t have arms, he would be so curious and confused.
@SuperWiiBros082 ай бұрын
I always loved this movie
@hebidija2 ай бұрын
its great
@mindnomad2 ай бұрын
Same, this has been a favorite of mine for a very long time now
@Ace-tg7ic Жыл бұрын
I remember discovering about this movie about a decade ago thanks to Ted-Ed's amazing video. I was back in middle school by then, and I remembered watching this movie on KZbin one random night and just being completely engrossed in it. I forgot the name of the movie for a while, but the thoughts and experiences that I had with this movie had been nibbling at my mind the entire time. The very unique and beautiful way of portraying the flatlanders, the revelations of sphereland, the dream of pointland. Just recently, in a college class, we were asked about our favorite movies, and this movie immediately sprung to my mind. Unfortunately no one has heard of it, but it's ok because it has brought me back here, happy to revisit and reexperience this masterpiece. Thank you for the clean HD upload, for one of my favorite movies of all time.
@FilmLadd Жыл бұрын
You're very welcome, and thanks for watching it again.