Flatland Movie

Flatland is a 2 dimensional land where everyone is a geometric shape. The shapes go from three-sided triangles to circles with an infinite number of angles. The triangles do the hard work, like guard duty. The squares work in offices and the Circles are the priests who are supposed to be wise. In the Flatland movie, a square called Arthur square has a strange dream where he travels to Pointland, a place with a point who likes to say “me” a lot. Than, he travels to Lineland, where there is only ONE dimension – length. He encounters the King of Lineland who can only go side to side and cannot go forwards or backwards. Arthur then freaks the King out and goes back to Flatland. then, he sees Spherius, a 3 dimensional sphere from the third dimension – Spaceland. Spherius takes Arthur to Spaceland and Arthur finds a new dimension – height. When Arthur wakes up, he finds out that Hex, his granddaughter, has gone to Area 33h, an area sort of like what we call Area 51. Arthur gets caught but Spherius saves him from death by the Circles. After Flatland finds out about the Third Dimension, Hex wonders if there is a Fourth Dimension. Then, the camera lowers under the Cube of Area 33h and shows another cube – this one with a square inside … a Tesseract (a cube with a cube inside) that probably represents the fourth dimension. This is a great movie with a great plot.

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