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Eli Movie Reflection

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The movie is about Eli who carries a book that will save and redeem the whole humanity. His task was to bring the book in a safe place where after a nuclear apocalypse the setting is in the desert. He travels in the wasteland where there is nothing and no life in order to fulfill his destiny in helping in the salvation of mankind. It was a survival of men for himself, Eli travelling alone, hunting for food, searching for water, finding shelter and fought some desert bandits soon encounters Carnegie and his gang. They lived a violent and low life wherein Carnegie’s focus is to expand territory and rule over others and lead them to a miserable, poor and crime driven life using the power of a certain book which Eli carry. He was accommodated by Carnegie where he met his blind wife Claudia together with the daughter Solara, Carnegie then send Solara to seduce Eli but he rejected him and instead share her food, the grace and prayer. After that Carnegie heard Solara’s word which is quite familiar for him; it was the words that was in the book he have been looking. Through Solara, he then found out that Eli contains the book, Eli then leaves the town with Solara following him while Carnegie with his gang searches for him and plans to take him down to steal the book so he can use the power for his own desire. In an economic aspect, I can connect the book for it shows scarcity, because during the nuclear apocalypse every copy of the book was intentionally destroyed and only Eli has

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