27th Nov 2008
City of Embers
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.
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