There is an epic, even Shakespearean, story of love, technology and environmentalism lost in the self-serious jumble that
is "Wonderful Days," a Korean animated film that has been dubbed into English and is being released here under the title "Sky Blue." It is a century or so in the future and, as is so often the case, we have nearly destroyed the earth. A living city called EcoBan is the only refuge from the acid rain that falls ceaselessly everywhere else, but the guardians of the city are elitists, in the sense that they prefer to have everyone outside the city work as their slaves. They're called Diggers, these people, and they have to work in mines to obtain resources to keep EcoBan powered up and happy. A Digger rebellion is in the offing, though, led by the mysterious Dr. Noah (an EcoBan expatriate) and helped by a young turk called Shua.
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