![]() ![]() He panics when he pulls the messenger assignment that will keep him far away from the generator. Her classmate, Doon Harrow, whose father is an inventor, wants to work near the generator so he can fix it. On assignment day, the day when the next generation of young workers graduate, Lina is praying with all her might to be a messenger, but she is designated to work in the vast underground Pipeworks near the generator. ![]() But, the happy face mayor, played to wry perfection by Bill Murray, acts like everything is hunky dory. The warehouse only has a few cans of food. The generator coughs and sputters for longer and longer periods of time. Now, 200 years have passed, and the City of Ember is dying. After several mayors, however, the box with the builders instructions was forgotten. They gave the mayor a box that counts down every year to 200 years and, when opened, will show the people how to exit the city. They stocked the city with food and equipped it with a generator with enough power to last for 200 years. Sometime in the future, a worldwide crisis caused the best minds to build an underground city to save a remnant of mankind. Content:ĭanger and jeopardy make for an exciting, entertaining movie. Despite some moments that may be too scary for young children, CITY OF EMBER is a very clean movie, with no foul language or other vulgar elements. ![]() The movie also shows the value of liberty, individual responsibility, loyalty, and other cardinal virtues. Justice triumphs over big government and totalitarian liberalism. Bill Murray sounds like every loony leftist politician. It is a thrilling, captivating science fiction adventure with profound, incisive lessons. They have to escape the mayor’s thugs as they race against time to figure out the way to the future.ĬITY OF EMBER will entertain, enlighten and encourage. Two graduating students, Lina and Doon, discover the mayor’s secret storehouse of goods and the box of the city’s original builders. The generator running the city was only designed for 200 years, and there is a forgotten box with the builders’ instructions on how the citizens can get out of the city and forge a new society aboveground. The story is about an underground city, several years in the future, ruled by a liberal dictator, played to perfection by Bill Murray. CITY OF EMBER is an exciting science fiction adventure for families. ![]()
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