Sturgess & Dunst in "Upside Down" (script review)

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"Upside Down" is a project currently sitting in pre-production, due to be helmed by Argentinean director Juan Diego Solanas and to star Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess.We first meet with Adam (Sturgess), a Below resident who’s also an inventor and spends his days hanging out with friends Albert and Pablo who run an electrical repairs shop on the Below planet. Their life is fairly grim, fixing old mixers and getting beers at the local bar after hours. It’s here that Adam sees The Lottery on television, a show in which people from their world are offered the chance to live Up Top, in relative luxury and safety. Adam sees the girl announcing the winner and realises it’s his childhood sweetheart, an Up Top called Eve (Dunst). We’re then given a flashback of how they met one day when Adam was climbing trees at his aunt’s cabin in the forest and saw Eve up in the sky, running from her abusive father. He reaches out to her and it’s love at first sight, but Eve’s father, and his mustachioed business partner, Lagabullin, don’t want her corrupted by a lowly Below like Adam, and separate them as best they can. Eve falls into a coma and wakes with amnesia, forgetting the love she felt for Adam… Adam’s literal opposite is a friendly Up Top called Bob Boruchowitz, a programmer who’s been with Transworld most of his long years and warms to the young man, especially when offered a few stamps from his collection in return for some borrowed equipment that Adam can use to access the Up Top world and defy gravity by using powerful inverse matter rods that will allow him to walk, somewhat, normally in their world, and to find Eve.The descriptions of the Below world evoke a communist-era East Berlin, with bombed out building sites, crumbling masonry and an air of despair among the denizens. The writers set-out immediately to establish this, with Adam walking the streets and observing the depression:There is some attempt at an allegorical storyline in which the oppressed Below world represents Latin America and Up Top is clearly North America, the script even mentions apartheid South Africa and (weirdly) ‘England’.
As Adam strolls, looking around wide-eyed at all the new sights, a PASSERBY asks for the time. Adam glances at his watch: it droops upward, the wristband too large. He adjusts it briskly with his other hand as if to get a better look.So, what’s left to say? There are a few glaring errors in logic to address. Planets turn on their axis, so any joining tower would simply be torn to pieces by the orbit (although to be fair, in a story this fantastical, I can’t really gripe about this). Any object traded from one planet to the other becomes untouchably hot after an hour (!) of contact with the opposite world, so how the hell to they trade oil without it bursting into flames? So much of the story goes unexplained. What was ‘the war’ about? What’s it like on the other sides of these two planets? Do the inhabitants there even know about the existence of the opposite world?" Source: www.quietearth.us