Flatland: The Movie is a short animated film which was released to video in 2007. The cast includes the voices of actors Martin Sheen, Kristen Bell and Tony Hale. The story is based on the 1884 science fiction novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions written by Edwin A. Abbott.
Hex (Bell) is a young female hexagon living in a two-dimensional world inhabited by various geometric characters. She lives with her grandparents, Arthur and Arlene,...
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Flatland: The Movie is a short animated film which was released to video in 2007. The cast includes the voices of actors Martin Sheen, Kristen Bell and Tony Hale. The story is based on the 1884 science fiction novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions written by Edwin A. Abbott.
Hex (Bell) is a young female hexagon living in a two-dimensional world inhabited by various geometric characters. She lives with her grandparents, Arthur and Arlene, because her mother and father were given the death penalty for their beliefs in the third dimension, by the circle elite people who convicted them of heresy.
The circle people (which represent the power elite, parodying largely mainstream science, and politicians), know about the third dimension, but keep it hidden from the Flatlanders to keep power over them.
A cube, put in a way to be visible to Flatlanders, is hidden in a place called Area 33h (an allegory of Area 51, where the United States government allegedly is hiding space aliens),...
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