FAM Movie Review : Upside Down ( 2012 )

Genre : Sci-Fi | Romance | Fantasy

Director : Juan Solanas

Cast : Jim Sturgess ( Adam ) , Kirsten Dunst ( Eden ) , Timothy Spall ( Bob )

Our Rating : 7.5/10

Upside Down is a rare Form of movie with a weird concept about a romantic love story on a strange astronomic world very unique from all other planets. Jim Sturgess as Adams plays a romantic lover boy character were the movie starts with him narrating the story about his planet and how different it is. The planet he is in is a Twin with two different world having their own gravitiy field around it and are just so close that they are merely separated by the dual gravity. People in one world can watch the people in other world upside down and each humans in their respective world are attached to their own planet by gravity. They cannot migrate to the opposite planet as the dual gravity is based on three simple rules .

1) All matter is pulled by the gravity of the world that it comes from, and not the other.
2) An object's weight can be offset by matter from the opposite world (inverse matter).
3) After some time in contact, matter in contact with inverse matter burns.

So the person cannot move to a other planet as they are attached to their own gravity and any material or particle from other planet is called inverse matter and if its moved from its original planet , it will get heated up and would burn as per the three laws. So the movie depends on this simple phenomena of physics which is why its a rarest script ever thought off. The two worlds though are twined and separated , one world is rich and wealthy and on the other people are poor , starving and economically down. The Rich world uses the poor world for its rich oil wealth in-exchange of Electricity for this Poor world and there is a company called TransWorld which serves as a bridge between both world managing all the transactions and exchanges. Transworld is huge massive tower constructed which unites both world and so many people from both world are employed there and that is the only place where both world meet though the contact between both world is strictly forbidden and any violation of this can even result in death penalty.

When the world itself is upside down with a very strange natural cause , a simple cute love blossoms between two teens , Adam from poor world and Eden ( kristian Dunst ) from the rich. Adam meets Eden from the other world while climbing a mountain for collecting rarest floral for his aunt . Apart from Transworld this is the only place where the two worlds are close to each other and somehow the encounter between Adam and Eden soon develops into a romantic relationship between both while they are still attached to their own gravity. Irrespective of the consequences that they are forbidden to communicate , Eden climbs down to the other world to meet Adam as she cannot resist her feelings for him and they do start meeting each other secretly ever after. Things move perfectly fine till one day when they were been tracked by police and are been chased down ,  in a event of this Eden meets up with a accident and she is pulled back to her own world by gravity resulting in injury to her head . Adam and Eden are separated for long after this incident, years pass by and they are no more in touch until that day when Adam notices Eden on a TV Show about trans-world and he gets to know that she is working on transworld and that she is alive.




Adam has a special set of skills passed on from his aunt to prepare a concoction for anti aging and using this skill he gets a job in transworld impressing the big bosses on the rich world , but his only intention is to search and find Eden. He moves on to transworld as a employee which is bound to so many rules and somehow after so many tough attempts he tracks down his love of his life but he gets to know that she don't remember anything because of her accident to head and that she cant really identify him at all. So rest of movie is how he manages to travel to the other world to meet Eden to make her remember him and his attempts to escape from police while he gets caught during his meet with Eden and how they finally manage to live together is rest of the story .

Though the climax was bit uncompromising and was rushed to a  quick end , still this movie has its own golden moments of breath-taking scenes. The script chosen is not so easy to make and bring it to celluloid form. Juan Solanas sure had his guts to take it down this challenging script and bring it live , for sure he deserves a applause . Wonderful CG Works and mind blowing cinematography. Picturization was just stunning all the way especially some scenes capturing the scenic beauty of both worlds and i just could imagine going to a planetarium for watching celestial bodies. Its sure gives you a haunting feel with goosebumps when u see the screen where a person from one world can just lift his head to see the sky , but no no in this case the other world and so the sky is not the end for them like earth. Some shots like when Adam was thrown out from one world to the ocean on other world and the meeting of Adam & Eden on the mountains which has rain upside down was so cool to watch leaving you stunned. First half screenplay stays as best but a bit led down at the end. Kristen Dunst was just cool , awesome mesmerizing and chemistry between Kristen & Jim was beautifully portrayed. Though this movie plot is about love and how he tracks her to win his love back , still the romance quotient is bit low but more felt as a sci-fi genre movie rather. This movie definitely deserves a one time watch for its stunning visualization and for a experience of watching some rarest movie with a strange script. Not a exceptional movie or neither a bad movie too , but unique of its kind.

FAM Punch Line : Upside Down -  Showtime on a planetarium. Go in with a kids heart and come out fully satisfied. A Virtual Journey sure worth a ride, at-least worth a try once.

Transworld :-