Honestly, I think I relate more to these precocious kids than to any dour and moody teenage anti-hero of today’s YA stories. In an endeavor to return to those stories and rediscover what I loved about them, I’ve been working my way through some of the stacks of novels with twelve-year-old protagonists that I used to devour as a child. It seems that somewhere along the way, I have forgotten about the true joys of reading and watching films-of experiencing stories-and also forgotten all the wonderful stories I used to love.
#City of ember movie movie#
Just what is this movie even about, and why have I broken my months’ long unofficial hiatus to talk about it?
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In a time when films are filled with buckets of CGI, the amount of loving care and attention to detail in this 2008 movie is wonderfully refreshing.īut I’m getting ahead of myself. While the movie does not mirror the story of the book exactly, there are wonderful little shots and moments here and there that seem to have leapt directly from the pages of The City of Ember and into real life.
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The design of the sets, costumes, and props are a joy to look at, and do most of the leg work when it comes to the world-building in this film-no lengthy expository dialogue required. But, to me anyway, City of Ember is one of those movies.īased on the young adult novel of (almost) the same name, City of Ember is a masterclass in making a world come to life on film. It is a rare thing for a movie based on a book to be ‘acceptable’, much less ‘good’.