Flatland
Flatland is a movie about one dimensional, two-dimensional, three-dimensional and four dimensional shapes. The movie starts out with A-Square (The main character, who a square, is an attorney for the accused Chromatistes) teaching is sixth son A-Hexagon how to see without using touch a thing that all flatlanders need to learn. A-Square’s brother ‘B-Square’ visits his home and tells A-Square that not to go out but A-square has a meeting with the first female chromatist. B-Square soon leaves after to meet President Circle (the president of Flatland). When he gets there, President Circle is heading the Hospital of Reconfiguration where President Circle son is at, while on his way to the Hospital of Reconfiguration President Circle talks
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about how now is a terrible time because the chromatist, the senator chromatistes, the constant threat of war on the border, he also asks B-Square if he had reviewed his plan and if it was to work out. When President Circle gets at the hospital he find out the his son had died from the reconfiguration. At A-Square home his son A-Hexagon has madehimself have a colored side. A-square gets mad at him but soon has to leave because he has a meeting for the first “accused” female chromatist. When he gets to the jail where A-Line (the first female chromatist) she starts talking about how she isn’t a chromatist, she failed to use her peace cry (a thing that all females in Flatland must do in a crisis or in danger). She then started talking about how she had a dream of “a world 3-D shapes and how they aren’t they only ones here” A-Square believes she is just crazy. He then tells her how the judge is just going to execute her, she then says how she will do it for them, she then kills herself. A-Square is very shaken up about what he has witnessed, as he leaves a prison guard who is a triangle tells him how he should headed home as soon as he can. As all that was going on President circle is having a meeting with the Chromatistes and the Senate Chromatist. The Senate talks about how people have the right to color, while the President is saying how that anyone can color themselves and can hide from crimes and on one would be to tell who they are.While this is going on triangle soldiers are lining up and ready to attack. B-Square opens the door and chaos, riots, mass murder and torture has broken out. A-Square gets caught up in the riots and meets a trapezoid in the midst of the chaos and ask if he knows a way out of this world. A-Square is just confused and the trapezoid then gets murdered, when A-Square gets home he falls asleep and goes to a world called Lineland, the people from Lineland can only see points and A-Square is trying to show and tell them that there is more to life than just Lineland. The President of Lineland then kills him and he wakes up from his dream. When he wakes up he figures out that B-Square was in the riot he goes to go try to find him, as he was on his way he passed through the market and found a glowpoint he takes one with him and continues on to go find his brother. When he gets to where his brother was at, he meets a right triangle guard and he tells him to go home.A-Square goes home and talks to his wife about happened as he's talking to her he hears a voice. A-Sphere comes into Flatland, even though A-Square can't he A-Sphere completely he is freaking out. A-Sphere is try to convince A-Square that there is more to life than Flatland And that there are three dimensional shapes. A-Square can't believe it so A-Sphere has no other choice than to take A-Square into Spaceland the world of three dimensional shapes. Once A-Square is in Spaceland he sees everything in a different perspective, but A-Sphere isn't finished yet he still needs to convince President Circle that there are three dimensional shapes.
He heads over to where President Circle is at and President Circle has already made a law how if anyone sees a three dimensional shape they are filed with imprisonment or death. A-Sphere still tries and fails as many triangle guards attack him and ignore everything he says. President Circle wants no wittiness of what has happened and calls in rhombuses to kills all the guards there. A-Sphere decides that he needs to head to Messiah Inc. where is works and is the CEO of, when he arrives there are a group of protesters outside of his work place holding signs saying “Flatlanders need to go” he then gets the police to kill them all and then heads inside. When he gets there he writes a report of about how he brought a Flatlander into Spaceland, after he sends it he gets a cube for A-Square to feel and to get a better understanding of three dimensional shapes. A-Square starts ranting about a fourth dimension, A-Sphere brushes this off. A-Spheres co-worker then tells him the his report about how he brought a Flatlander for n Spaceland was shared to everyone in Spaceland. The Spacelanders are very upset by this and immediately call a court hearing. A-Sphere tries defending his reasons but is then asked to leave and let A-Square speak, A-Square doesn't say anything he just talks about a fourth dimension. The gravity becomes too much for A-Square and is mailed back home to Flatland by A-Sphere. He wishes A-Square luck for trying to convince the rest of the Flatlanders about the third
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when i was young, i went to school, for a short time. I used to think, that the world was flat. and box-like.
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everyone thought the earth was flat. Please when you read this paper I am quoting from authors
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