Dark City was directed by Alex Proyas (Knowing, The Crow) and in it are Jennifer Connelly (Requiem for a Dream) and Kiefer Sutherland (24). This is a weird movie. It's not different, it's weird. Everyone in the movie seems like their in a daze. They're all hapless but proceeding. It's also strangely beautiful. The story revolves around a city in the middle of nowhere (literally) where it is always night and people change to different people every night at midnight. This is all orchestrated by The Strangers, a race of bald, pale aliens who know the ways of the human mind, and are looking for the soul. Every night the city changes, every night the people do too. And it's wonderful. To watch this movie is to delve into the grungy bits of the mind, evil, and assumptions that are so often made. If it sounds weird, or too weird, it should, and it takes a while for the majesty of the film to seep in, but once it does, it's a glorious thing. The prime question posed by the film is that, if our surroundings and occupations, pasts and futures were all changed, would life as we know it be the same--would we still end up with the people we would with a different house, a different job, a different past? And do all or any of those things matter, really, when we end up at that same place, a shore or a beach, a place we imagined as the end or the beginning, would it really matter at all?
Dark City: ★★★★
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