The movie was a truth drop about our Reality just like They Live, The Matrix, and The Truman Show. It had a lot of Gnostic themes in which the Strangers were the Archons described in the Gnostic teachings. Dr. Schreber was named after Dr. Daniel Paul Schreber who experienced and believed that there exists these “fleeting-improvised-men” in the world. Similar to the movie The Adjustment Bureau, which was based on the late great sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick’s short story “Adjustment Team.”
Definitely ahead of its time, even if visually it reached back to Fritz l]Lang and Klaus Kinski's Nosferatu. The Gnostic element is very interesting. I doubt many people (myself, and Siskel and Ebert included) picked up on that unless they followed up on interviews with Alex Proyas perhaps?
They are both great in their own way, but Dark City does feel like the more cerebral of the two, and it probably helps a lot that it wasn't tainted by a series of weak sequels.
The scifi movie Where aliens are dying so the transplanting different people's memories through their mind 1 second you're a poor person next 2nd you're rich At 10 o'clock these start switching memories
The movie was a truth drop about our Reality just like They Live, The Matrix, and The Truman Show. It had a lot of Gnostic themes in which the Strangers were the Archons described in the Gnostic teachings. Dr. Schreber was named after Dr. Daniel Paul Schreber who experienced and believed that there exists these “fleeting-improvised-men” in the world. Similar to the movie The Adjustment Bureau, which was based on the late great sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick’s short story “Adjustment Team.”
Definitely ahead of its time, even if visually it reached back to Fritz l]Lang and Klaus Kinski's Nosferatu. The Gnostic element is very interesting. I doubt many people (myself, and Siskel and Ebert included) picked up on that unless they followed up on interviews with Alex Proyas perhaps?
It's much better than the Matrix. It has aged better for the start. Watch the director cut, though.
Dark City > The Matrix
They are both great in their own way, but Dark City does feel like the more cerebral of the two, and it probably helps a lot that it wasn't tainted by a series of weak sequels.
I love that movie
2024 earth is dark city
It's the best
It left the promise of more amazing movies to follow from Alex Proyas, that sadly never materialized.
Never heard of it.
It's an absolute masterpiece. Directed by Alex Proyas who also directed The Crow.
The scifi movie Where aliens are dying so the transplanting different people's memories through their mind 1 second you're a poor person next 2nd you're rich At 10 o'clock these start switching memories
You live in dark city sleeper
Amazing film