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'City of Ember'
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To call the sci-fi kids' film " City of Ember" a parable of energy independence might be pushing things, but it certainly abounds in symbols and allegories. It's set in a futuristic but delightfully rattletrap underground metropolis - part Fritz Lang, part Rube Goldberg - whose lights are ominously flickering.
The avuncular Mayor Cole (a cartoonishly good Bill Murray) preaches patience, but...
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