Literary Terms & Movie Review

This is not one of those new movies today.  I just don’t know when this movie was launched.  This movie “City of Embers” deals about a city laid under ground but the people living there don’t know they are a thousand miles away from the surface.

City of Embers

After the earth people had reached all the advancement in the world of technology which leads them to destruction, scientists, architects and engineers meet and decided to create a community far below the ground to preserve the human race from total destruction.

The group of professionals built a city which could not in any way will be disturbed by the present situation the earth is experiencing.  A self serving city with the most sophisticated power supply is created where the community could live for a long time to preserve the human race from the destruction.

The Symbol

A box was created from special materials where the key for the humans to find the surface again is kept.  This box was so designed that no one can open it until it reaches the time set for the self-powered box to open.  The group of professional agreed to set the box to open after 200 years.

Inside the box, a fiber glass key with a symbol inscribed to it suggests that it could only be used for a unique door to unlock the portal going to the upper world.  The key is accompanied by one page step by step instructions on what to be to reach the surface.

The City

The people living underground don’t know what the sun looks like. There is only one star that they are seeing up above.  No one knows that is a small opening from the upper world.  Each and everyone knew all about earth and its components and other things.  The City is powered by a sophisticated power supply designed to stand alone as long as the equipments are maintained in order.  This power plant is being maintained over the years.

The community doesn’t have a day and a day light.  The City is lit with lots of bulbs which are kept live 24/7.  If there is a bulb that needs to be replaced, the in-charge man will just get a replacement from the million bulbs kept in the storage room.

As time passes, it became a tradition that every young man and woman who reaches the age to work in the city is given the opportunity to get the job by just having to pick a work listed in a box. This is a draw lots in which it is a tradition accompanied by a celebration where the young workers are being watched while they pick their job.

After getting the job, they will then report to the in-charge man of the particular job and from then on, they will start learning and educating themselves with the help the person in-charge of the job to be replaced by them when he or she retires later.

The very long time that passes within the City of Embers had brought changes that the tradition to turn over the key box had been forgotten.  Luckily, the box was kept by a young lady who is very much curious of the upper world.

When the box reached its time to open, the community started to experience some power failure too, in which, according to the older people in the City, it is their first time to experience such power failure.  Thought the power failure is not that long, people are sensing that their city will be in a total dark soon if the problem could not be located and fixed.

This triggered the young lady to explore further and accidentally, with the help of her boy friend, the two take the risk to find out what is meant by the symbol inscribe in the fiber glass key.

The boy is working as pipe fitter in the plant.  After seeing the symbol inscribe in the key, he remembered that he once seen the symbol and he remembered it is within his area of work within the power plant. And, the two started to unlock the door going through the outside world.

“THE ANT BULLY” is cartoon movie which features a young boy who happen to be a weakling but turned out to be a strong boy after his encounter with the Ants.  Obviously, this is a fiction movie which captured my attention and come up to write some review of this movie.  You see, I am watching the movie with my daughter and I am explaining too part of the movies which I think needs some elaboration.

Character and Characterization:

The main character is Lucas and he is usually called by mother “peanut” which he thinks is no longer appropriate for him.  Lucas, because he is small and a bit lousy in his physical appearance happen to be bullied by his boys at his age especially the big boy who always give emphasis that “he is big and peanut is small.”

The second character, of course, will be the ants which thought him to be strong due to some life threatening challenges he encountered while at the colony.  ZOC, the wizard of the colony who happen to hate him at first but became one his good friend and partner later.  Hova, the girlfriend Zoc has helped him to become an ant really while he stays at the colony.

The insects exterminator is the villain in the movie.  The man, according to him had made contract with Lucas father to spray insecticide on the grasses to terminate most especially the ants living there.  Since Lucas is stll young and don’t know about contracts, the man manages to let Lucas sign in in behalf of his father.  Father and mother had left for vacation that day, so by some convincing sales talk of the exterminator, Lucas signed the contract.

Overview of the story:

The story started in a scene where Lucas is being held by the big boy, carrying him above the ground and suddenly the big boy let him go which made him slammed his face on the ground.  The big boy and the other kids laugh at him and again he heard the term “I am big and you are small.”

While facing the ground, Lucas happen to attract his attention the Ants who are carrying food for the next season.  While the boys are leaving, Lucas grabbed the hose ans sprayed the ant colony while stating words ” I am big and you are small.”  While doing this, suddenly a man appeared at his back, talking about how he flooded also his first colony.  The ant, as being attack by huge downpour of water coming for the faucet don’t now how to run for their lives.

Meanwhile, Zoc, under the ground is trying to dig the last ingredient for his potion.  According to him, this poton will be the only solution to stop the human Lucas on destroying the colony.  Zoc was successful and finishing the potion and this night, they decided to have a visit to Lucas’ house for the final revenge.

The cut the story short, using the potion, Lucas shrink into a very small human with as small as the ant size.  He was carried by the ants to the colony to be judged on what he did on them.  The ants called Lucas as the “destroyer”.

At the ants’ court room, the queen ant, upon hearing such explanation from Lucas himself decided to let Lucas live with them to learn something about ants.  Luckily, Hova volunteered to teach Lucas of the ants ways of life.

Recommendation:

I might spend another hour if I will narrate all the events through writing.  lol  This is only a review of the movie and if you feel is intersting for you ids too, then I suggest you get a copy of the movie.  This is actually for male kids, but since I have only one child, I want her to learn some of the boys ways too.  I am hghly recommending this movie to be watched not only by male kida but also for female kids.

I have a copy of the first Madagascar. I admit the movie is entertaining not that I watched it with my daughter and answering all her question regarding the thing she doesn’t understand and I decided to watch it again to review some of the events in the movie.

Well. I don’t the copy of the next Madagascar yet but the “ship to Africa” scene was suppose to be done if not the penguins did something to control the ship.  The penguins are the responsible why they went to Madagascar instead of Africa.

The story started when Marty the zebra dreamed of going to the wild.  Marty had seen a realization of this dream when he happen to speak with the notorious penguin which are planning to escape from the zoo.

On the night of Marty’s birthday celebration, he escape the zoo and went to find out way going to the wild.  Melman the giraffe, after a while,  found out the Marty is no longer at his place.  Melman the giraffe, Gloria the hippopotamus and Alex the lion become worried on the idea that their friend zebra might have been lost on the way to the wild.

With out a second thought the three decided to search Marty.  They road a train and yes, I almost forgot that on their search people were amazed why their are animal scattered in the city.  Just an ad lib: my daughter laugh in the scene were Alex was kicked by an old lady when they reach the train station.

Well, I will buy the dvd copy of this movie again.  Cartoon movies are good movies to watch one in while and always if you have with your kids watching movies like this.  I also started to browse online movie review sites to have an overview of this aother “Madagascar” movie.