City of Ember

Saturday night my friends and I all went to see "City of Ember."  Bill Murray plays a corrupt politician in a post-apocalyptic underground city where two children realize that he's up to no good and that there's been a secret hidden from the people.  As the children start to stumble on clues and learn more and more the leaders of the city try to quell their rebellion.

The film teaches us to do what is right no matter what.  Parallels can be drawn between the crisis in the film's world and our world.  Ember is in the midst of an energy crisis in which the generator that lights their city is on the fritz and their vegetation and food supply is quickly running out.  In our world today, young people face the challenge of growing up in a world where there are valid concerns for a shortage of energy and, with the threat of global warming, problems with vegetation and our food supply.  Possible application of lessons from the film could be done in a classroom setting where students would identify a problem in the world similar to the problems the children in the film faced and brainstorm to find a solution to the problem.  This would help students to respond to a media stimulus by thinking about the message it sends and how to apply it in their lives.