Flatland: The Movie
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Actor: Kristen Bell, Martin Sheen, Michael York, Tony HaleBrand: Flatland: The Movie (Home Edition)
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Published)
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 36 minutes
Published: 2008
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Platform: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Studio: Flat World Productions, LLC
Product features:
- Starring MARTIN SHEEN, MICHAEL YORK, TONY HALE & KRISTEN BELL
- Featuring an interview on the 4th Dimension by Dr. Thomas Banchoff
- English, Spanish and Italian subtitles
DVD Reviews of Flatland: The Movie
DVD Review: Great for the Classroom
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is cute and kids enjoy it. It opens up a lot of discussions about geometry in general as well as politics and religion. This movie is a must have if you teach secondary mathematics!DVD Review: disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
This is a disappointing rendition of Abbott's classic novel. It is very professionally produced but lacking in originality, and of limited educational value. A great opportunity missed. The interviews with the actors are (unintentionally) hilarious.DVD Review: Flatland: The Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Flatland: The Movie I liked this movie, but this other movie is better: Flatland the Film DVD Review: Math Class 2-D Fun!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Geometry class students loved it. It was entertaining and thought provoking. The web site has excellent activities that can fit the needs of kids at several grade and ability levels. Teachers need more of these "bells and whistles" to compete in today's techno society.DVD Review: Helps overcome two dimensional thinking
Summary: 5 Stars
"The book of nature is written in mathematics."
-- Galileo
From Euclid forward, mathematicians have kind of served as reality's accountants alterting us to mathematical truths and their impact on the lives we live.
That's why when a lifelong mathematician like Edwin Abbott Abbott takes the time to sit down and write book in parable form about a basic mathematical truth...well...it's probably worth our time to sit down and read it.
In Abbott's 1884 classic masterpiece Flatlands, Abbott told the story of A Square...a resident of Flatland who comes to discover the existence of the third dimension. For those who haven't yet read the book, I would recommend Ian Stewart's brilliant Flatland Annotated in which Stewart (himself a lifelong mathematician) verbatim goes through Abbott's book annotating it along the way with helpful explanatory tidbits and information. In some cases, Stewart's annotations explain Abbott's points in terms of the basic mathematics or history. In other cases, Stewart provides information about the development of mathematical theory since Flatlands was written.
In one line of developments, for example, Euclid's fifth postulate is overturned and in another the idea that any one mathematical system can find all mathematical truth is iself overturned...both significant findings. For more on these developments or other interesting math issues, you can turn to Stewart's follow up Flatterland, the Dover publications treatment on Mathematical Fallacies and Paradoxes or even the highly readable Choas, Coincidence and All that Math Jazz.
But for those not interested in reading but simple and quick exposition on the issues raised by Flatland, I would suggest this movie. For one thing, it slowly goes over the issues involved. The graphics are just wonderful. And for that matter so is the voice work by such notables as Martin Sheen and Michael York.
If like me this movie picks your curiosity please consider reading the following titles by way of follow up: The Fourth Dimension by Charles Hinton, The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained, Flatland Annotated, Flatterland, Sphereland, The Plainiverse, and finally Michio Kaku's Hyperspace. In so doing you'll discover that our world is more strange and fantastic than you ever thought and like A Square, you might just find yourself looking one dimension higher!
Description of Flatland: The Movie
The only OFFICIAL version of FLATLAND: THE MOVIE. The movie features the voices of Martin Sheen, Michael York and Kristen Bell. FLATLAND is an exciting half-hour animated film adapted from Edwin Abbott's classic novel, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimension. The movie stars the voices of Martin Sheen, Kristen Bell, Tony Hale, Michael York, and Joe Estevez.General DVDs
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