Upside Down

Alright, I am going to do my best to explain this movie because its an interesting one.

Basically, the movie takes place in a different world where there is a such thing as double gravity. This gravity is shown in the existence of two worlds. Each have their own sense of gravity but at some point in the sky, one could go from one field of gravity into the next.

The picture to the left is the best way I can describe it.

There's a lot of physics to go along with that that the movie tries to explain but it is all very confusing.

Its is also explained that one world is the rich world and they extract energy from the poorer world. There's a huge divide between the two worlds, but of course, Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst find love in a hopeless place, Rihanna style.

So Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst meet at a young age and fall in love even though they are on opposite sides of this world. Well something bad happens and it interrupts their love. Sturgess's life is ruined by this corporation working to put the lower world down and Kirsten Dunst is thought to be dead.

Fast forward a couple years and Kirsten Dunst is not dead but instead has a little bit of amnesia. Sturgess is working on a formula he got from his aunt to counteract the laws of dual gravity.

As luck would have it, Sturgess realizes Dunst isn't dead and he figures out a way get a job in the corporation she works for. He then starts a mission to make a potion that balances out the effects of dual gravity and make Dunst remember their love.

What a load of crap.

I will give the movie credit, visually the movie is really really pretty. It has some really great over arching shots and the visuals of creating two worlds basically sandwiched on top of each other, it looks really visually stunning.

But as for a story, its the biggest pile of crap in the world.

Jim Sturgess starts the movie out talking about the physics of the world they live in. All he had to do was explain that there is two fields of gravity in this world. Objects from each field stay in their field regardless of where they are. The only way to counteract is to get reverse matter. But if something stays in contact with that reverse matter for too long, it will burn. Pretty simple.

Instead Sturgess goes on a really douchey explanation about love and how it transcends physical boundaries and some other bullshit.

He may as well should have started the movie off like this.