At the beginning of this movie, I didn't really know what was going on and was very confused trying to figure it out; that kid with the Strangers also freaked me out. Despite this, Dark City has become one of my favorite movies because I couldn't stop thinking and rambling on about it after class.
The dark atmosphere of the entire city, as commented on by Murdoch when he notices that there's no sun, contributes to the aspects of the film noir genre. I happened to really like how the hotel looked when John was walking towards the front desk. John Murdoch, who was originally supposed to be like everyone else in the city, was somehow able to get away from the experimentation the Strangers did on humans and gained some of their telekinetic powers. He is supposedly a murderer who killed hookers, and yet he saves a fish before going out the door.
The Strangers change people's memories and fabricate new lives for the people in the city as experimentation, trying to find what it is that makes humans special. John's character shows that it isn't memories that shape our lives. His memories were filled with him being a killer, but when he tried to test himself, he wasn't able to kill the girl.
When the Detective and one of the Strangers fly off into space, you see that the "city" is actually just a spaceship in the shape of a spiral floating around. It's not even a real world; it's something that was made. Dark City leaves you questioning, What if our world was like this? That we're actually some sort of experiment and everything we know isn't real? I really enjoyed this film, but I wonder what the city will be like now that John is in control.
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