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City of Afterglow
Cheyanne 2022-01-03 08:01:30
This is like a live-action Hayao Miyazaki cartoon, with too many elements of Hayao Miyazaki. The anti-industry and anti-war back to nature are like the clumsy and rusty robots in the Sky City, just as different pointers can open Howl's mobile castle of different destinies. When Lena put on a red cloak and her long slender legs galloped down the dimly lit industrial streets, I saw the shadow of Hayao Miyazaki. Including the sewers, the monsters in the sewers, the sleepy old plumbers all day long, the huge and bulky generators, the greedy and corrupt mayors and the voles-like secretaries, and even Lena’s sister who runs away, everything is too much. Hayao is gone. If it is a cartoon, it should be a good one, but as a movie, it is a bit rough. But scripts are one of my favorites.
Extended Reading
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Loris Harrow: [narrating] On the day the world ended, the fate of mankind was carried in a small metal box. In a secret location, architects, scientists and engineers met and concluded that there was only one hope for our future: to build an underground city designed to keep its citizens protected for generations to come. The box was entrusted to the first mayor, who was to pass it on to her successor. As the years counted down, the box passed from mayor to mayor. None knew what secrets it held, only that it would open when it was needed most. But fate ran another course, and the chain was broken. The box was tucked away and forgotten, and as the city grew old and began to crumble, the box quietly clicked open.
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Loris Harrow: [narrating] Lina and Doon tied their hope to a rock and tossed it down toward the city. The rock could've ended up on a roof. Or kicked into a gutter. But fate ran another course. And the message found its way. Now the path was clear for all. All of us who kept the flame of Ember burning, through the darkness, so that we could live again on the earth, in the air and the light.