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Solid Geometry (film)

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Director
  
Screenplay
  
Duration
  

Language
  
English

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Mystery, Short

Story by
  
Country
  
United Kingdom

Solid Geometry (film) movie poster

Release date
  
2002

Writer
  
Denis Lawson, Ian McEwan (short story)

Cast
  
(Phil), (Maisie), (David Hunter),
Jonathan Watson
(Patrick Murray),
John Murtagh
(Dr. Vosse)

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Solid Geometry is a 2002 short TV film directed by Denis Lawson, starring Ewan McGregor and Ruth Millar. It is based on a short story by Ian McEwan published in collection First Love, Last Rites.

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Plot

Phil (McGregor) is a successful advertising executive and Maisie (Millar) is his young and hedonistic wife, but their lives are thrown into turmoil when Phil inherits his great-great grandfather's secret diaries. He becomes obsessed with research into solid geometry contained in the diaries and is fascinated by the theory of "a plane without a surface." His pursuit of this mythical geometric concept tears his marriage apart. The film is interspersed with flashbacks showing Phil's great-great grandfather discovering the same mysteries of the supernatural side of geometry as Phil is uncovering by reading the diaries.

Eventually Phil follows the instructions buried in the diaries and begins carefully folding a large sheet of paper in on itself like a lotus flower, then the folded paper emits a bright light, folds over itself and disappears. On seeing this, he dedicates his life to understanding more about the diaries and his great-great grandfather's mysterious disappearance.

He goes on to become obsessed with this transformation and the discussion in the book which links it to 'sexual intercourse positions' of which the diary claims there are only 17. After a love-making session with his wife, he proceeds to place another of the paper lotus flowers in the center of her curled body. As she curls into a foetal position unknowingly around the paper flower, she somehow completes the flower folding as had previously been achieved with just the paper. She spins around the paper flower several times and disappears, emitting tones of shock and fear. The film ends with Phil alone in bed.

References

Solid Geometry (film) Wikipedia
Solid Geometry (film) IMDb Solid Geometry (film) themoviedb.org