Sunday, November 23, 2008
It's 23 Nov already! I've been going out for this and that, running personal errands, blah blah. Yet hardly have the time to go out to exercise. I really ought to go on a diet before my Taiwan trip before I balloon to dunno how many kg come next year. Many meetups and potential meetups so I'm trying to combine them instead. Then I wouldn't have to go out almost everyday, not that I don't enjoy meeting up and catching up with friends lah haha.
City of Ember is a really nice show. It tells of a population of humans who live underground and that has been going on for 200 years. However, they did not explain right at the beginning why there was such an arrangement to have people living underground. Just the sentence, "For the good of mankind." That's it. I assume that they don't want that population to be corrupted in their thinking or something (or maybe it was an elaborate experiment). However, I'm not sure if anything happened to the actual human population on the surface. There's a special box which holds an important key in allowing the people below to come up to the surface through a complicated and hidden route. The box has been passed down from generation to generation for 200 years (a timer was set right at the beginning). People below have been living happily and contented all the while until one day the generator started to fail. Remember they cannot get sunlight right at the bottom (it's really deep deep deep down below). In fact, they don't even know what's sun or sky. Lights in Ember started to flicker and 2 young people started to investigate on their own. These protagonists were the ones who emerged to the top and they were in awe when they saw their first sunrise. Actually when they emerged to the top, it was night and so they mistakenly thought everywhere was the same since it's also dark at the top after all (yes, they were that naive, having live below all their lives). They probably thought the sunrise was some sort of light caused by a special generator too haha... Many people thought that beyond their city, there's nothing but darkness, which no knowledge whatsoever of the actual world above them.
Kind of a thought provoking show so I'll consider it as 3.5 to 4 stars material. :D
Serendipity believed today at 2:28 PM
