Two kids: Doon and Lina are starting their first jobs as Pipeworks Labourer and Messenger in Ember, a city built underground. The city crumbles as time goes by due to the slowly destroying generator; the only source of power for Ember. When it starts to get worse, Lina's sister Poppy found a small metal box containg a piece of paper together with a pice of card with a unique symbol on it. Her grandmother says that the box was really important, but she couldn't remember why.
As Lina reensemble the torn papers in the box, she finds out that it contains instructions to exit Ember, as it is already falling apart. Together with Doon, they try to find a way out of Ember. Will they make it?
To me, this movie is almost like Terminator Salvation; except for the part that there are no robots involved. It is like telling us what will happen after Judgement Day, when the story begins with the quote "On the day the world ended, the fate of mankind was carried in a small, metal box." This box contains the instructions for the people of Ember, and was set to open after 200 years.
Just imagine we are living in a city built underground. What do you think will happen? How will we survive? "City of Ember" will tell you everything you needed in order to live underground, not that we want it, of course.
Don't forget to watch "City of Ember". You can also try to find the book that inspires the movie, entitled "The City of Ember" in bookstores near you. It is the first Book of Ember and the sequels to it are "The People of Sparks", "The Prophet of Yonwood" and "The Diamond of Darkhold", all written by Jeanne duPrau...
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