Thursday, July 22, 2010

The Book of Eli - January 2010

A huge natural disaster has hit and wiped out the majority of Earth's population. Following this is a war in which God is blamed and every Bible save one is burned. The bad guy - Carnegie - played by Gary Oldman is trying to find a remaining Bible so he can use it to control people and rule the remnant of the world by gaining followers of the Word which he controls. He sends out search crews who cannot find it.

Eli - played by Denzel Washington has the remaining Bible which he faithfully reads everyday and follows a spiritual prompting, with promises of protection, to take it west (where there is a working printing press waiting) He befriends Solara, who is played by Mila Kunis, when he stops to buy some water which is now scarce. Carnegie finds out Eli has a Bible and Eli tries to evade bad guys trying to take it from him for their own evil purposes. He must evade people who may not be evil per say but are desparate as resources are scarce and violence to take what is needed is rising, while trying to run out west to get the Bible reprinted.

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