A star-like light in the sky overhead.
A tattered and decayed background with a dull, oily tones.
A maze of underground water pipes criss-crossed.
A box in which the supreme ruler of mankind sets a 200-year countdown.
The city's central generators are aging intermittently.
The shimmering citizens who stay in the dark interval panic.
A hypocritical mayor who corrupts and deceives the people.
The chants of the devotees in the streets spread the piety of ignorance.
Two teenagers, a boy and a girl,
are like the little heroes of many children's films.
With lofty ideals, they follow the footsteps of their parents
to find a glimmering way out of this city.
They are not afraid of the mayor's conspiracy to obstruct,
overcome difficulties, and follow the clues left by their ancestors.
The strange cabinet in the plumber's changing room turns out to be a canoe.
The underground patterns and tracks are metaphors for the city's life-saving exits, and
the motor control room is dozens of meters high. The ladder well,
two teenagers, carrying a child on their backs,
climbed up at a rocket-like speed, which was shocking.
The ending was as expected. Before the Shimmering City was on the verge of collapse,
they successfully found an exit and returned to the surface from the underground world.
And saw the first ray of sunshine in my life.
This is an adventure story that combines magic and fairy tales,
similar to the style of "City in the Sky", "Spirited Away" and other films.
Of course, there are many anime factors in
the film. The woolen house of the girl's grandmother is the only warm plot in the film.
Riding the single wooden cabinet roller coaster is generally a thrilling ups and downs escape process.
Huge underground man-eating moles and moths from the outer space of the city.
Twilight, Twilight, through Twilight City,
we see the desolation at the end of the world.
Many people have been looking for the so-called heaven,
but they do not know that heaven is actually under our feet.
If modern people continue to devastate the earth,
it is conceivable that the world in the future will be
our real version of the shimmering city.
But, at that time, where
is our shimmer exit?
2009.2.24
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