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Downside up.

2016 Directed by Peter Ghesquière

The world is populated only by people with Down syndrome. One day, a boy is born who is different. He is not ‘normal’, because he looks a little bit different and behaves a little bit unusual.

Milo Huyghebaert Peter Janssens Paul Mertens Nico Sturm Tineke Van Haute

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Peter Ghesquière

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Kobe van Steenberghe Peter Ghesquière Nicolas Daenens Jochen Decostere

A Team Productions

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Drama Comedy

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15 dec 2016, releases by country.

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Review by shilial

if no one knew how to tie a knot why were shoelaces even invented

Review by Amcke ★★

there werent any actors this is just what Belgium is like

Review by Ethan ★★★½

loved the style of this, pretty cool

Review by Captain Awesome ½

There are way better short films with less ratings (watch  it  now ) please do it now please now it’s so good it’s only 2 minutes watch it now

Stop liking the review without watching it and logging it the 5 it deserves it’s 2 minutes get a life

Review by Buddy O ★★★ 1

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Review by salman ★

This is the worst short film I have ever seen

Review by kynky ★★★½

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An intriguing if flawed short about a world where everyone has Down Syndrome and what would happen if someone was born who was different. It's not afraid to use stereotypes to make it's point but it does so with warmth and humour that ultimately leads us to look at our own definition of normal.

Review by Poooker 🍌 ★★★★½ 1

Have you ever seen a black person with Down syndrome?

Review by elianamedici ★★½

Kind of a good idea but felt very condescending

Review by Itchyballs

Haha Down’s syndrome

Review by Ryan ★★½

this felt weird, I felt very conflicted. its extremely well made, to the cinematography, to the audio, to its structure. its very Wes Anderson in terms of aesthetic.

but it also felt like "hey look how goofy and silly down syndrome individuals are. the doctor drinks his choccy wocky from a big cup and straw." :/

Review by chrisksong ★★★½

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Genre: drama / comedy, duration: 15 minuten, country: belgium, directed by: peter ghesquière, starst: milo huyghebaert , peter janssens and paul mertens, imdb score: 7,5  (254), releasedate: 15 december 2016.

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The world is only populated with people with Down syndrome. Until one day a boy is born who is different. He is not "normal", because he looks different and also behaves a little differently.

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Downside Up reveals a world where everyone has Down's syndrome. One day, Eric is born, a boy who's different.

Downside Up is a 2016 comedy with a runtime of 13 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.5.

• Genres Comedy Drama
• Cast Milo Huyghebaert Nico Sturm Tineke Van Haute
• Director Peter Ghesquière
• Release Date 2016
• Runtime 13 min
• Language Dutch
• IMDB Rating 7.5   (238)

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Downside Up reveals a world where everyone has Down syndrome. One day, Eric is born, a boy who’s different.

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A short film about a world where everyone has down syndrome is going viral, and some may be wanting to watch it for themselves.

A viral TikTok video has left people wondering about the movie Downside Up , a 2016 short film about a world where everyone has down syndrome except for one person. Directed by Peter Ghesquiere and earning mostly positive reviews, Downside Up can be watched on YouTube, and it's also readily available to stream on services like Amazon , though one will need to pay either $0.99 to rent the HD version or $2.99 to buy it for their digital library.

Downside Up is the story of Eric, seemingly the only person in the world born without down syndrome. While it's only a little over 10 minutes long, Downside Up follows Eric's life from the time he's a kid to an adult. Various medical tests are conducted on Eric to try to figure out why he is "missing" a chromosome, and his parents travel the world in search for a cure. Ultimately, society starts to accommodate Eric, making adjustments and providing resources to fit his special needs .

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A viral TikTok video uploaded by sxmoviess offers a brief summary of Downside Up 's story, but the description of the video stopped short of revealing the title of the film. This left many TikTok users wondering what exactly the movie is called so they can watch it for themselves. Now that they know it's the award-winning short film Downside Up , anyone interested can seek it out for themselves to watch the full movie instead of the abbreviated TikTok version.

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Some that saw the viral TikTok video may be wondering how the short film ends but aren't interested in watching the entire thing themselves. Those that don't mind spoilers can read on, but everyone else is encouraged to watch the movie for themselves.

The ending of Downside Up sees Eric ultimately decide to undergo surgery to make himself look more like everyone else. But when he's being prepped for surgery, he meets a woman who was also born without down syndrome. They decide not to get the surgery and instead live out their lives by using their unique skills to help others. For example, a reoccurring issue in the film is how many people in this world struggle with tying their own shoelaces, and so Eric and his partner solve the problem by inventing velcro shoes. It's a unique concept for a short film, and it will be interesting to see just how much attention it gets now that it has gone viral on TikTok .

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In its opening stretch the new Pixar movie “Up” flies high, borne aloft by a sense of creative flight and a flawlessly realized love story. Its on-screen and unlikely escape artist is Carl Fredricksen, a widower and former balloon salesman with a square head and a round nose that looks ready for honking. Voiced with appreciable impatience by Ed Asner, Carl isn’t your typical American animated hero. He’s 78, for starters, and the years have taken their toll on his lugubrious body and spirit, both of which seem solidly tethered to the ground. Even the two corners of his mouth point straight down. It’s as if he were sagging into the earth.

Eventually a bouquet of balloons sends Carl and his house soaring into the sky, where they go up, up and away and off to an adventure in South America with a portly child, some talking (and snarling and gourmet-cooking) dogs and an unexpected villain. Though the initial images of flight are wonderfully rendered — the house shudders and creaks and splinters and groans as it’s ripped from its foundation by the balloons — the movie remains bound by convention, despite even its modest 3-D depth. This has become the Pixar way. Passages of glorious imagination are invariably matched by stock characters and banal story choices, as each new movie becomes another manifestation of the movie-industry divide between art and the bottom line.

In “Up” that divide is evident between the early scenes, which tell Carl’s story with extraordinary tenderness and brilliant narrative economy, and the later scenes of him as a geriatric action hero. The movie opens with the young Carl enthusing over black-and-white newsreel images of his hero, a world-famous aviator and explorer, Charles Muntz (Christopher Plummer). Shortly thereafter, Carl meets Ellie, a plucky, would-be adventurer who, a few edits later, becomes his beloved wife, an adult relationship that the director Pete Docter brilliantly compresses into some four wordless minutes during which the couple dream together, face crushing disappointment and grow happily old side by side. Like the opener of “Wall-E” and the critic’s Proustian reminiscence of childhood in “Ratatouille,” this is filmmaking at its purest.

The absence of words suggests that Mr. Docter and the co-director Bob Peterson, with whom he wrote the screenplay, are looking back to the silent era, as Andrew Stanton did with the Chaplinesque start to “Wall-E.” Even so, partly because “Up” includes a newsreel interlude, its marriage sequence also brings to mind the breakfast table in “Citizen Kane.” In this justly famous (talking) montage, Orson Welles shows the collapse of a marriage over a number of years through a series of images of Kane and his first wife seated across from each other at breakfast, another portrait of a marriage in miniature. As in their finest work, the Pixar filmmakers have created thrilling cinema simply by rifling through its history.

Those thrills begin to peter out after the boy, Russell (Jordan Nagai), inadvertently hitches a ride with Carl, forcing the old man to assume increasingly grandfatherly duties. But before that happens there are glories to savor, notably the scenes of Carl — having decided to head off on the kind of adventure Ellie and he always postponed — taking to the air. When the multihued balloons burst through the top of his wooden house it’s as if a thousand gloriously unfettered thoughts had bloomed above his similarly squared head. Especially lovely is the image of a little girl jumping in giddy delight as the house rises in front of her large picture window, the sunlight through the balloons daubing her room with bright color.

In time Carl and Russell, an irritant whose Botero proportions recall those of the human dirigibles in “Wall-E,” float to South America where they, the house and the movie come down to earth. Though Mr. Docter’s visual imagination shows no signs of strain here — the image of Carl stubbornly pulling his house, now tethered to his torso, could have come out of the illustrated Freud — the story grows progressively more formulaic. And cuter. Carl comes face to face with his childhood hero, Muntz, an eccentric with the dashing looks and frenetic energy of a younger Kirk Douglas. Muntz lives with a legion of talking dogs with which he has been hunting a rare bird whose gaudy plumage echoes the palette of Carl’s balloons.

The talking dogs are certainly a hoot, including the slobbering yellow furball Dug and a squeaky-voiced Doberman, Alpha (both Mr. Peterson), not to mention the dog in the kitchen and the one that pops open the Champagne. And there’s something to be said about the revelation that heroes might not be what you imagined, particularly in a children’s movie and particularly one released by Disney. (Muntz seems partly inspired by Charles Lindbergh at his most heroic and otherwise.) But much like Russell, the little boy with father problems, and much like Dug, the dog with master issues, the story starts to feel ingratiating enough to warrant a kick. O.K., O.K., not a kick, just some gently expressed regret.

“Up” is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). A wee bit of gentle action and a climactic fight scene, but nothing inappropriate for any viewer of any age.

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WITH THE VOICES OF: Ed Asner (Carl Fredricksen), Christopher Plummer (Charles Muntz), Jordan Nagai (Russell), Bob Peterson (Dug/Alpha), Delroy Lindo (Beta), Jerome Ranft (Gamma) and John Ratzenberger (Construction Foreman Tom).

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