City of ember and sleepwalking society.
City of Ember is now out on the torrent sites for download. I thought it was great, and any of the regular readers of this blog will enjoy it. The reviews are mediocre and it was a box office failure. I think this is because people aren't really understanding the movie. This is because they don't want to think or deal with the issues brought up in the movie. It is really about consciousness, and dealing with the shadow self. On a more superficial level, it is about dealing with people who are asleep in your everyday life. Here is my brief synopsis (without giving too much away). Some sort of cataclysm destroyed life on the surface of the earth. The remaining people fled to an underground city which can sustain life for about 200 years. The "builders" (architects/masons) decided to hide the information of an outside world, from society for 200 years. The box will be passed down to each mayor, and in exactly 200 years it will open. Future generations are born in under...