Dark City (1998) Analysis

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  • @theog71
    @theog71 Год назад +29

    “The Game” is another good one. My favorite scene is in the beginning when he enters the play of the game. He doesn’t realize it had started. He’s In a cab, the cabbie bails, gets trapped, cab goes off into the river and he’s freaking out how can he escape. Then he realizes he had this door handle in his pocket.
    He had the solution the whole time!!
    When he calmed down. Controlled his fear, he got out.
    It’s been long time since I saw this, but that memory came up for me recently, so I searched for the Clip. Then I find a clip from “The Mask”in someone’s video.
    It was the scene where The Mask draws a cartoon handle so he can flush the water down.
    So he created his solution through his imagination. Manifested into his reality to solve his problem

  • @libinchandran9934
    @libinchandran9934 Месяц назад +5

    Just watched yesterday ! I know it's too late but it worth watching. Amazing film , so many layers . Thank you very much for breaking down.

  • @aidengregg
    @aidengregg Год назад +38

    I always thought Dark City was the most amazing sci-fi I had ever seen, and wondered why it didn't make more of a splash. In addition to its symbolic depth, it is a masterpiece of suspense, dialogue, characterization, atmospherics, and aesthetics. I sensed its significance at the time without understanding it.

  • @carolt.9295
    @carolt.9295 Год назад +89

    That was a brilliant analysis! I would like to expand on what you said, although I will probably ramble some. (My apologies in advance.) One movie everyone seems to forget is The Thirteenth Floor, which came out the same year as The Matrix. It wasn't a raging success, but there are some occult meanings in it, as well. In that movie, there were several levels to the games. The humans on the top level created a lower level, which in turn, created a level, etc. They could enter these matrices at will and "possess" the characters. Another interesting thing about the top level is that their world was built on water - as if it were above "the firmament." In Westworld, the hosts were patterned after humans. I don't remember the quote, but Dolores alluded to the fact that because the hosts were created in their image, she saw the good in humanity. Even in Westworld, the "Man in Black" had his consciousness placed into a host, as did Bernard. In the Bible, it says "Let us make man in our image." What if we truly are in the image of our creators? And by that, I don't just mean looks; i mean character. I bring all of this up because it's very, very clear to me that as clownish as this realm is, whoever runs it has a very human-like sense of humor - often juvenile and very dark, but still human. I also believe the "elite" and their minions know exactly where we are and what's going on. It's a gut feeling. I don't think this place is an experiment and I'm not sure they're feeding off our energy. Perhaps they use us for entertainment, which would make this the most advanced video game one could imagine. Or maybe we are the players and when we leave, the game ends. The phrase "As above, so below" in this context makes a lot more sense. So does the term "higher self."

    • @howdiemickoskitalks
      @howdiemickoskitalks  Год назад +37

      I like this presentation of yours. And 13 th Floor has a ton of stuff in there as well...yes this "created in their image" is something I have not taken enough time to explore and research, but now with what you said here I see that I should add that to what I am looking at over the next month. Thanks for this.

    • @a.renato4912
      @a.renato4912 Год назад +26

      Right on! Each part of it! We really must be open-minded enough to entertain a few possibilities about this realm. It might be a trap or a farm, or a prison, or a game, or a lab, or a combination of these constructs, or something else entirely. Keep searching and, please, let us know your thoughts, concepts and findings.

    • @carolt.9295
      @carolt.9295 Год назад +10

      @@howdiemickoskitalks Thank you. And you're very welcome! :)

    • @DC-wz7ob
      @DC-wz7ob Год назад +3

      @@howdiemickoskitalks monetize your channel.....while you still have it

    • @AdianGess
      @AdianGess Год назад +2

      Super insight thanks

  • @innerknowledge3389
    @innerknowledge3389 Год назад +39

    It was also interesting to note that both the agents in The Adjustment Bureau and the Strangers in Dark City had a distaste to water, probably alluding to their machine-like nature. But yes, Neo was fully expected by the Architect, which makes me wonder the Demiurge expects us to fight. There may no need to fight at all, but simply detach and leave.

    • @joshuacarpenter4477
      @joshuacarpenter4477 Год назад +11

      I've been thinking that too. Neutrality and standing in our power is worth considering. Clearly the consciousness of humanity is being intentionally dumbed down and coralled. The controllers appear artificial and machine-like. My biggest question is how badly do they need us and what for? Also, what are they most threatened by?

    • @joshuacarpenter4477
      @joshuacarpenter4477 Год назад +12

      Its also worth considering with the architect example you've brought up, that a highly advanced quantum computer could have crunched all the variables to be able to both predict and manipulate the future to its own end. If that's the case, our weapons may well be the weapon of faith and belief as these are variables which are difficult to quantify and predict. Following one's heart may be the key to it all.

    • @innerknowledge3389
      @innerknowledge3389 Год назад +4

      @@joshuacarpenter4477 yea more than likely their looking glass technology is the use of their quantum computer

    • @ashdukesbear9700
      @ashdukesbear9700 Год назад +3

      I was thinking the distaste to sunlight as well. In the Adjustment Bureau they’re in the city where tall buildings block direct sunlight.

    • @innerknowledge3389
      @innerknowledge3389 Год назад +5

      @@ashdukesbear9700 aa yes good point. solar flashes canceling AI seem to be a potential theme thru history

  • @lancelotdufrane
    @lancelotdufrane Год назад +36

    I watched Dark City, after your references to it, peeked my interest. The lack of traction to the masses, also seems to contain information. It is,… an unaware/disinterested… humanity. I’ve been questioning since I can remember. Why it it this way? What does that mean? Most find me uncomfortable with my, too deep perspectives. Thank you, Howdie. Listening to you thinking out loud, is like finding a long lost friend. I have ordered your new book. Looking forward to it. Again. Deep thanks..

    • @demo3456
      @demo3456 Год назад +9

      I know that look people give you when you mention a different outlook on something that is so near to the person.
      Ever since I can remember of the 5 questions Why was always mine. Funny I just remembered my mother telling me why was my first word. Very odd your comment triggered that. Thank you and hopefully we are not alone

    • @AngstG
      @AngstG Год назад +6

      @@demo3456 oh, wow - yes my folks told me I drove them insane with the word "WHY?". After every explanation they would give I just continued asking 'but WHY?' since their first reply never really answered anything.... And here I sit today and the standard answers coming out of the box, the screen or those with so-called 'authority' are one dimensional, flat & farcical - either they're engaging in obsurantism or they don't really know anything...

    • @jelafean
      @jelafean Год назад +3

      I get the same sense, as howdie being a long lost friend. And also feel I’m somewhat alone in this world and different and as I get older I “fit in” less than less. It would be nice to have a way for all of us to discuss possibly meet and have a connection.

  • @williamlodderhose8967
    @williamlodderhose8967 Год назад +18

    This gives my age away (sorta), I owned Dark City on VHS tape originally. I bought it shortly after seeing it in the Theater and being blown away. My ex-wife (now) thought I was losing it (then), she couldn't understand what I saw in the film, which I've since replaced with a DVD version in my collection.

    • @steveswhirld
      @steveswhirld Год назад +1

      you old as the hills

    • @michellesaylor440
      @michellesaylor440 Год назад +3

      Me too.

    • @theelder4797
      @theelder4797 Год назад

      Women aren't built for big ideas, they birth and help raise children. They're brains are 10% smaller than a man's brain, and they have more white matter and men have more grey matter. That 10% more + more grey matter is where civilization and inventions come from.

  • @theog71
    @theog71 Год назад +23

    Great analysis and fantastic comments here as well. We all hold a piece of the puzzle.
    Has anybody noticed how strong synchronicities are getting now? I’m getting so in tune with the flow. Literally, my questions are be answered. It comes into my reality faster and faster. Something will facilitate me crossing another’s path who has knowledge I need. It’s quite amazing.
    Getting rid of whatever programming you can is key here. It’s like decluttering your closet. Just get rid of the crap. There are so many layers. I think you can find a superhighway and speed out of here.

    • @mallorieryan3034
      @mallorieryan3034 Год назад +8

      Yes, synchronicities galore!

    • @Hitngan
      @Hitngan Год назад +3

      Be OK of dreams!!

    • @sarahhunter1114
      @sarahhunter1114 Год назад +1

      Glad to see there are others. The answers are coming faster and faster, I almost can’t keep up.

  • @CJusticeHappen21
    @CJusticeHappen21 11 месяцев назад +2

    Oh, Man, it's all in the first scene with John! He moves the Goldfish from the remnants of the bowl that he shattered, into the Bathtub in which he himself awoke in. John hasn't freed humanity, only moved them to a different sort of confinement.

  • @stefang5796
    @stefang5796 Год назад +18

    The original Blade Runner did some of these themes as well. The replicant Rachel had memories implanted that were actually someone else's. They were so real to her she didn't question them. Only when she did the test to reveal a true human did she realize she wasn't one. In this world it rains nonstop and the way out was "Off World".

  • @consciousanxiety
    @consciousanxiety Год назад +18

    Just found this channel and I am a few videos deep. The context of everything makes me feel like these kind of discussions are what I've been missing from my life. The videos I've always been looking for, without knowing I've been looking for them.
    I'm 31 now and thought that I went through a bit of an awaking in life about 10 years ago...but only recently I feel like I really didn't go through shit and only now am I discovering how little I truly truly know....
    What is going on? Who am I? This life is bizzare...beyond words. But for a moment atleast, I feel like I'm in the right place? This comment section surrounded by people who understand this message...but if it were listed on a sports video, I would be deemed crazy.
    Anyhow, if anyone does read this, maybe you could tell me how you have gone through the last 2-3 years without loosing your mind, and where do you see yourself in the coming years?

    • @creatorworlds3424
      @creatorworlds3424 Год назад +7

      I had that same feeling of thinking I went through an awakening when really it was just the beginning. It’s a constant journey of de-programming and getting to the true self.
      The only advice I can give is to follow your heart. Each of our journeys is unique for us and it will do you no good following someone else exactly. Of course videos like this and other guides are welcome but don’t take anything for absolute truth unless you have experienced it yourself. Be fearless too. Don’t worry if you seem crazy to others or even your own mind, it’s part of de-attaching from this upside down world. Anyway that’s what’s helped me, I’m still on my own journey as well

    • @innerknowledge3389
      @innerknowledge3389 Год назад +2

      @@creatorworlds3424 I would advise something similar. It is very difficult to not have a solid foundation of beliefs because it can make you feel crazy. This is why I feel you must always return to the heart, since too much time in the mind can also make you go crazy. The healthiest one can potentially do is detach from the world. If you truly want to be ready to leave, then there cannot be anything here holding you back. This still means you can act out of love and kindness towards others because it’s simply a more enjoyable experience to do so.

    • @fepethepenguin8287
      @fepethepenguin8287 Год назад +1

      Ask your self this.... God is infinite, how did He or Consciousness first come into existence
      Physical matter does not exist, never has . Just layers of Dreams
      And there is only 1 Dreamer.
      Does God know where He came from?
      Good things to meditate on, to accelerate your awakening

  • @bobbysocks5759
    @bobbysocks5759 Год назад +3

    This movie is so Gnostic. It shows the Archons changing things. So ironic that the actors name is Lucifer spelled backwards. He is the light bearers of that realm. I thought his name sounded like an annagram Rufus Sewell. Llewes Sufur = lucifer. Wow 😳

  • @acetate909
    @acetate909 Год назад +18

    I've been waiting for this for a whiie. Haven't seen this movie since I was in Highschool and it's deeper meaning definitely went over my head. I'm gonna rewatch it after work with this analysis in mind.

  • @valyd45
    @valyd45 Год назад +22

    These movies are telling us the nature of the reality but won’t go further as to how to break free. Your work is invaluable. Not even Philip K Dick goes further unless he never got to that point where he figured it out. Though I see he followed the Gnostic writings. Great observation here.

    • @marthaduncan7694
      @marthaduncan7694 Год назад +4

      great comment

    • @howdiemickoskitalks
      @howdiemickoskitalks  Год назад +16

      Yes I agree. It was one of the reasons I wanted to put something in my book beyond just "here is the cave" but some ideas of what to do about it. Perhaps part of the whole thing is just to keep people distracted exploring the cave endlessly, never thinking "but what about an exit door."

    • @carolinegrant2423
      @carolinegrant2423 Год назад +16

      @@howdiemickoskitalks my only quest now is the exit door!

    • @joshuacarpenter4477
      @joshuacarpenter4477 Год назад +5

      @@MountaintopJuggernaut I believe there is something to balancing the masculine and divine feminine within oneself. Whole brain integration of both hemispheres also. The goal is to not live in duality and achieve balance.

    • @KyleWhiteandfriends
      @KyleWhiteandfriends Год назад

      👍

  • @Rabbitholes_Inc
    @Rabbitholes_Inc Год назад +18

    Another "book of dreams" is called "A Book Of Dreams" (1974) by Peter Reich, son of psychoanalyst Wilhelm. And inspiration to Kate Bush's song Cloudbusting (1985)

    • @KyleWhiteandfriends
      @KyleWhiteandfriends Год назад +1

      That cloud busting music video is basically an episode of Rick and Morty where Kate Bush plays Morty

    • @Rabbitholes_Inc
      @Rabbitholes_Inc Год назад +1

      @@KyleWhiteandfriends lol, Idk about that. Kate actually plays Peter, the son of Wilhelm Reich; (played by Donald Sutherland). Rick and Morty was to my knowledge inspired by back to the future, though I've never watched the cartoon

  • @TradersWorld11
    @TradersWorld11 Год назад +8

    The Prisoner t.v series had a similar ending that most probably viewed as the main character winning…spoiler alert… but little things like his home door automatically opening as it did in “The Village” indicated that he was fooled into thinking he had escaped but was in fact still in “The Village”

    • @TradersWorld11
      @TradersWorld11 Год назад +1

      The McGoohan, and of course that was one of a few interpretations. But it is the one that always made sense to me.

  • @joepawlowski4928
    @joepawlowski4928 Год назад +12

    Something like this happened to me and my ex once. We woke up one morning feeling like we had been turned on, as if by a switch being flicked. It wasn't a normal waking up. We seemed to have come to at the same time and neither she nor I could remember going to bed, let alone sleep the night before.

  • @trogoautoegocrat666
    @trogoautoegocrat666 Год назад +3

    Howdie, that was very thoughtful. I instantly saw those films were captured by a palimpsest. They were a rewriting, and an over writing, of the theme of awakening. I could see them as avenues created by David Bowman entering the ‘monolith’ at the end of 2001. And as for the theme of ‘false enlightenment’ leading to ‘false awakenings,’ the film Enter The Void deals with these themes in a much more brutal, but no less a phantasmagoric, manner. It may be fascinating for you to consider this later film as a part of this palimpsest. It features a character who enters into a Bardo state and it’s consequences, and ends in a paradoxical way in rebirth. But is it out of the womb, or matrix, of rebirth? Fascinating insight you have captured. Thank you!

  • @freethinker79
    @freethinker79 Год назад +3

    Nice analysis! Dark City always reminded me of Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks" painting. Throughout the years, many viewers of the painting have noted the powerful emotions that it seems to evoke. Feelings of loneliness, isolation, alienation. Even dread. All of which are very much in line with the overall mood of Dark City.

    • @ayzworld
      @ayzworld 5 месяцев назад +1

      Well said.

  • @wookie79logos81
    @wookie79logos81 Год назад +6

    Hi Howdie
    I just watched “Don’t Worry Darling” with my wife tonight…MAJOR truth drops in this one…I need to rewatch as I know I missed a number of things…it touches on Plato’s Cave, Matrix Simulation Theory, Holography, ‘Soul Traps’, NPCs, Life Scripts, MK Ultra etc etc - I think they even make reference to both Sophia & The Demiurge’s creation/administration of the simulated/material ‘world’
    Once you have a chance to watch it, I look forward to your analysis - you always see things 2 or 3 layers deeper than I can pick out.

    • @mattjones6323
      @mattjones6323 Год назад

      Where can watch?

    • @wookie79logos81
      @wookie79logos81 Год назад

      @@mattjones6323 might be on bitchute or could rent on Amazon Video

  • @YSANROCHEOfficialYoutube
    @YSANROCHEOfficialYoutube Год назад +5

    It would be nice if you could also give your analysis of Vanilla Sky. I have a long history connected to this movie

  • @Seasquares
    @Seasquares Год назад +4

    The comment section is a treasure trove of great movie suggestions. Thanks!

  • @Flanavision
    @Flanavision Год назад +4

    Do any of us truly have impact? Despite our best efforts.
    "One can only match, move by move, the machinations of fate... And this defy the tyrannous stars." - Kain from LOK

    • @XTibbs1
      @XTibbs1 Год назад +1

      Best efforts.

  • @demo3456
    @demo3456 Год назад +14

    They have told us over and over. Either this awakening is controlled or something else is going on.
    What do you guys feel? Am I john? Are you? Has this all been laid out for us?
    Or is there free will?

    • @GimbalLocksOnly
      @GimbalLocksOnly Год назад

      What I see is a link between the growing body of the awakened and the insane acceleration and intensification of the matrix with every decade since the industrial revolution.

  • @wookie79logos81
    @wookie79logos81 Год назад +5

    Lead Actor Rufus Sewell (John Murdoch)…his name backwards - Llewes sufur…Loos sifer…Lucifer

    • @mattjones6323
      @mattjones6323 Год назад +1

      Nice.
      So what would that mean in the movie if he represents lucifer? I have only seen parts of the movie

    • @wookie79logos81
      @wookie79logos81 Год назад +1

      I don’t think his ‘name’ relates to Dark City…I just thought interesting trivia

  • @belladanka1221
    @belladanka1221 Год назад +6

    This movie has always "talked" to me. I've been trying to tell people about the truth in it for decades.

  • @johnrubes1155
    @johnrubes1155 Год назад +6

    Would be interesting to have your opinion on the netflix show 1899 i think you will be fascinated by it especially their take on exiting the cave, ive been blown away by it personally

    • @johnrubes1155
      @johnrubes1155 Год назад

      @@deedee88BB well spotted but still.thimk itz coincidence

  • @TradersWorld11
    @TradersWorld11 Год назад +4

    When you said that “Shell Beach” may be a stand in for the real search, BOTTICELLI'S BIRTH OF VENUS popped into my mind and the symbolism of nautical shells in art history.

    • @TradersWorld11
      @TradersWorld11 Год назад +3

      Shells often symbolise love, fertility, and female genitalia in art. Interestingly, they have also been known to symbolise the subconscious.

  • @rachel_v_k
    @rachel_v_k Год назад +1

    Excellent analysis. I enjoyed it very much. I've seen "Dark City" several times, but years ago, so I didn't think about the way I think now. Thanks! 🙏
    Much love! 🤗❤️❤️❤️

  • @scottmatznick3140
    @scottmatznick3140 Год назад +7

    Odd. I've always identified with the main character's ideas. There's an Eddie Walenski in the movie. My father is Edward (called Eddie) Walendy. Strange coincidence, didn't even notice when I've watched it.
    Thanks for the video, Howdie.

  • @eliasabdul
    @eliasabdul 16 дней назад

    Watched right now, the mother of so many movies for sure.

  • @JonViz
    @JonViz Год назад +2

    Talk about coincidence, I just finished watching 1899 on Netflix and the in the show DIRECTLY REFERENCES PLATOS CAVE! Not going to give spoilers but it is in the vein of the movies talked about here.
    1899 is the most expensive german show produced. Netfliix partly sponsored it but the German Motion Picture Fund gave it 10M Euros; the largest it has given to a project and it's not even a movie!
    And it is distinct (for me, that is) that the characters talk in their native language based on their nationality in the show. So the german crew speak German, the spaniards talk in spanissh, etc. etc. And for me, I don't even find it confusing, thanks to the subtitles haha.
    The makers of 1899 made DARK also on Netflix which I think is better, not taking away that 1899 is still a decent watch.

  • @tamellison2334
    @tamellison2334 Год назад +2

    AWESOME AWESOME PRESENTATION 👏👏👏PROFESSOR HOWDIE🥰😍I CANT WAIT TO WATCH THE MOVIE 💥💥

  • @quantumofconscience6538
    @quantumofconscience6538 Год назад +8

    Excellent analysis.

    • @wookie79logos81
      @wookie79logos81 Год назад +3

      Matt…You & Howdie do the best movie reviews - I see another YT Channel:
      “McKinley & Mickoski at the Movies”

  • @nancyvolker3342
    @nancyvolker3342 Год назад +4

    I have the DVD LOL I love this film I must have watched it 100 times

  • @AwesomeHotSauceandKristosCast
    @AwesomeHotSauceandKristosCast Год назад

    I see "Tuning to be two things that are essentially attributes or results of the same thing: "Tuning" in 2 parts: 1. Manifestation power and knowing how to use and temper it way better than the research team in the movie Sphere. 2. Your magnetic field self-balancing and retuning itself against a force trying to put it in weakened disarray. The heart being a vortex generator, and the toroidal field of magnetism around your body growing in energy, drawing from and harmonizing with the totality. At least in this layer of reality. You are reconnected with your Creative abilities. Also I'd like to have you on my show, not on RUclips, but Rumble and JoshWhoTV. The channel is called Ba'al Busters. I'm sending you an invite through your outlook address on your site. Great stuff Howdie.

  • @AdianGess
    @AdianGess Год назад

    Thank you Howie, brilliant. Big hugs to you all.

  • @realbanger
    @realbanger Год назад +3

    Hi Howdie. I just caught your THC interview and I was moved by something you said and wanted to reach out. You go into the allegory of the cave and you speak about the layers of deception on the reasons of why we are in the cave, and the fact that in all our manipulated mockingbird teachings (oral, written, and visual) no one stands up on their own and escapes the cave, they are either taken out of the cave by someone else or some other scenario. You go on to talk about the dread that comes from this, the dread that comes from knowing that no matter how far you go down the labyrinth of discovery of the nature of our reality, you never truly know if it’s you standing up, or if its something else dragging you out making you see it wants you to see.
    You talk about how you want out of this soul school sometimes. And Greg who I have always known to vibe with exactly the intent of the guest and nail it, and never really guide from personal bias, didn’t really meet you in that bleak place you were speaking about. Which was surprising. He talked about how he hasn’t had personal loss in his life that can help him understand where you are at in your journey. Meanwhile we all live in this hellscape of life. We all ignore the hell that this life truly is for our own sanity. The endless questions get exhausting. And sometimes as you rightly said you just want to go home….
    Home, to an understanding of it all, the cosmic laugh. The oh…That’s what it all was.
    We can’t have light without the dark. I appreciate you and your insights.

  • @user-ze5hj3sd1w
    @user-ze5hj3sd1w Год назад

    Wow! Amazing parallels that I would never think of myself!

  • @lovemanifest
    @lovemanifest Год назад +7

    How fortunate I am to have found your work. Years ago, I had the privilege of learning from Alex Kochkin. No one‘s heard of him, and he’s no longer here, but he left behind oextensive writings and two interviews. They are painful to listen to because the intro and interviewer are truly obnoxious, but for the serious seeker, they are incredibly valuable. If it wasn’t for Alex, I wouldn’t understand the information that you’ve put forth. I thank you both. May we all find the exit.
    ruclips.net/p/PLB8B92C53BC5E001F

    • @carolinegrant2423
      @carolinegrant2423 Год назад +1

      thanks for the link, just started to watch Alex, very interesting!

  • @MADdabber710OIL
    @MADdabber710OIL Год назад +2

    Nice vide. Still awaiting your paperback book to get here. Excited to read it.

  • @riccardoc1711
    @riccardoc1711 Год назад +1

    What we call “the world” (ever changing experiences that seem to happen in tine and space) in is in fact a reflection of the incessant activity pf the mind that needs to hold on to something seemingly “else than itself” to confirm its existence. we seemengly cannot get out of the cave because we unconsciously are fascinated by it and we don’t realize that we are co-creators of it. The “trick “ is to redirect our attention away from the “outside” experiences and direct it to the source of creation within : the stilness/consciousness/ beingness of which the mind itslef is a product (and not the other way around). That’s why you can’t think your way out of the cave. You can only awaken from it. Once identification with ego is realized there is no one that is reincarneted and no one affected by karma anymore. In fact the “cave” none other than the result (an outside projection) of being identified with the body/mind.

  • @winterfirepodcast
    @winterfirepodcast Год назад

    I am loving these videos so much. Thank you!!

  • @AustinCG
    @AustinCG Год назад +1

    Simulation within the Simulacrum (Chronicon) Archaix knows what's going on here

  • @Ya_Love
    @Ya_Love Год назад

    Niceeee !!!! 👏 That was such an amazing analysis, Howdie 💥
    I will listen to this again although I already see what you're getting at.
    You're right. No-one speaks about the Exit, or how to access it.
    Just my first thoughts here where I intuitively must say, 'you cannot exit' from in here, because it's a trap. Another thing is, that when you look at the sky, maybe all those stars, the lights in the night-sky are simply visible, because 'they are holes punched into the veil'? while behind 'this shield' it's a complete ocean of light altogether?...
    This would explain why the main structure of the night-sky (as the wheel/the canopy turns 😉) stays the same. ... hmmmm?

  • @andrew_prometheus
    @andrew_prometheus Год назад

    Excellent analysis, thank you so much for putting this together.

  • @daniellew86
    @daniellew86 Год назад +1

    That was a great analysis! Thank you so much.

  • @msspacecake121
    @msspacecake121 Год назад +3

    The mind is not internal per se... Dreaming shows this perfectly, we are all connected. This is how they have been able to control... Remembering is essential. Listen to your heart
    I like your perspective

    • @digital666
      @digital666 Год назад +1

      Yup 👍

    • @msspacecake121
      @msspacecake121 Год назад +1

      @@digital666 we shall see eh when the folk really start dropping. Sorry sad but true.

  • @reisswolf5202
    @reisswolf5202 Год назад

    Was für ein toller Film, den ich sehen durfte und ich hoffe so sehr, dass man ihn bald wieder zeigen wird. 👍👏
    Heute werde ich ihn viel besser verstehen können, denn ich bin aufgewachter, wie vor über 20 Jahren. 😎

  • @joannakasiakaczor7054
    @joannakasiakaczor7054 Год назад +1

    Love watching movies with my eyes wide shut. Great analysis. New movie on Netflix "The Discovery" is also worth a looksie. It's about a scientist who discovers proof of the afterlife prompting millions of people committing suicide. Interesting.

  • @shellbeach2322
    @shellbeach2322 Год назад

    i just heard you on Aeon byte Gnostic Radio... You'r my favorite person to listen to right now. Its so tough to find any people in this world that i can relate to..but i really connect with where your heads at on things...and Dark City I've been obsessed with for years..i'm always lookin for someone else that realizes how relevant it is...Vanilla Sky too.

  • @joshuawood1428
    @joshuawood1428 6 месяцев назад

    I shared this movie and the D code on the loudspeaker, and I think it's one of the most on point movies. I think the universe even regrets ever making it because it shows a lot of truth.

  • @kk-xs3do
    @kk-xs3do Год назад +1

    I see a pattern in all movies. Anyone who experienced narcissism will know what I'm talking about .
    At first evil was cosealed in movies, presenting the victim responsible for all the misunderstandings and problems, making it feel guilty and at the end of the movie, the concealed evil protagonist would forgive the victim and they got married.
    Nowadays the evil protagonist is not concealed any more, but is presented as a troubled soul that has empathy,so you should forgive him. Like bullet train protagonist or spirited protagonist.
    Where I'm getting at, with all the above is that npcs were concealed and you took the blame at the past. Now npcs are exposed so you are supposed to feel pity for them.
    Conclusion: they fed of our guilt in the past, now they feed of our compation.
    Indifference and of course not believing them, will probably starve them off.
    I think they can't survive if they show their real self, that's why all these lies.
    If a preditor has no prey to eat, it dies.
    We must collectively wake up and they will disappear.
    If no-one believed them back at 2020 what would they have done?
    They depend on the believers, called enablers at narrssisism theory.
    Anyone who believes them is an enabler. If they run out of enablers, game over for them.
    They are probably at a real predicament right now, THEY are running out of food. So they project that fear to you.
    A narsisist only resorts to force and terrorism, when he is exposed.
    Hold on people, this was their extinction burst and instead of helping them, it just exposed them more!

    • @mattjones6323
      @mattjones6323 Год назад +1

      Anyone's who believed them in 2020 is an npc

  • @petergagnon9968
    @petergagnon9968 Год назад

    I love these movie and show breakdowns. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @lifeinthelabyrinth
    @lifeinthelabyrinth Год назад +1

    The Thirteenth floor is another movie of interest. 1999!!

  • @kurtfolkendt
    @kurtfolkendt Год назад +2

    Zardoz (1974) with Sean Connery

  • @judojack2795
    @judojack2795 Год назад

    Great video Howdie. Need to watch 1899. All the same exact symbolism is there again...

  • @jud3131
    @jud3131 10 месяцев назад

    just read your book "Exit the Cave Ending the Reincarnation Trap". Thank you for sharing this.

  • @kelleyboyles1715
    @kelleyboyles1715 Год назад +1

    Telesti : to be aimed. we must be aimed to leave this dark place and I will not come back . The soul: Holographic Record Keeper.

  • @sidneymcfadden3857
    @sidneymcfadden3857 Год назад +11

    Two words: Natural Law or Golden Rule is the ONLY key to exiting the cave, yet, sadly, so few SM "truther" influencers are simply n dedicatedly focusing their attention here.. Our consent is needed, always, to perpetuate this simulation. We, as divine co-creators, with free will choice (INITIATE HARM TO OTHERS OR NOT)l, have always possessed the key out of the cave. That said, how many, after reading this comment, regarding Natural Law, will dismiss it, not further explore, discernibly, and not question how counter-intuitive their reaction is? Their free will choice, nonetheless, with consequences. Exiting the cave, dispelling the hellish illusion can only come from within, NEVER FROM WITHOUT.
    We have been systematically disconnected from Nature and made forgetful of eternal, immutable and objective Natural Law (DO NOT INITIATE HARM TO OTHERS) (Karma/Golden Rule/Cause & Effect/Moral Law) THE ONLY LAW that governs the consequences of our individual free will choices, of behavior, as divine co-creators. The consequences of our individual choices of behavior, conscious or unconscious, co-manifest, proportionately, in our collective human experience. We are perpetuating this unnatural parasitic slave construct by OUR free will choices through a false belief in authority and moral relativism, that only exist within this illusory, unnatural simulation that we, to our own demise, continue to perpetuate as long as we continue to engage and capitulate within it.. We are forgetful that separateness is an illusion. It is with forgetfulness that we consent to that which causes harm to others and possess a false belief in the authority of others. Our consent is always our choice, despite the illusion of fear. Moraliity/Truth/Natural Law is not subjective.
    Given Natural Law, the archons/parasitic simulators MUST have our acquiescence to that which initiates harm to ourselves and others (war, circumcision, carnism, abortion, jabs, etc), iOW, self-servingly emulating them,. the antithesis of Natural Law/Prime Creator/Truth/Reality, so that we perpetuate their illusory matrix. It is only when we reconnect with Nature, align to Natural Law in our individual choices, that this simulation ceases to exist, proportionately, The more the merrier.. The simulators are totally dependent on us forgetting that we are divine co-creators, with free will choices governed by eternal Natural Law, not government, religion or usury. Our consent is everything! Illusory hell or natural heaven, is always our individual choice. Natural Law -> Empathy/Service to others -> heaven/authentic freedom. Moral relativism/Service to self? -> illusory hell/slave simulation.

    • @the_great_plague
      @the_great_plague Год назад +3

      Perfectly said. Howdie misses the simplicity of the metaphor: the city is dark and oppressive, while shell beach, as a metaphor for nature, represents freedom. Humans are imprisoned in civilization, through our learned dependence on it, and deliberate brainwashing to make us forget the true way. Howdie has succumbed to the lie that shell beach never existed, despite all our genetic memories screaming that it did and does. The transformation of an ethical, healthy hunter gatherer into a serial killer represents the ultimate triumph of civilization.

    • @scottlazenby3258
      @scottlazenby3258 Год назад

      mark passio is the man

    • @recalcitrantone
      @recalcitrantone Месяц назад

      @sidneymcfadden3857 thank you

  • @gnosticbaseball
    @gnosticbaseball Год назад +1

    There is a book series called VOYAGERS. It follows this.
    Particle Transition Theory

  • @joshuacarpenter4477
    @joshuacarpenter4477 Год назад +2

    I've never liked the ending of this film. That pan-out revealing the world to be a closed system didn't sit well with me due to the questions it raises. If we figure out the truth of this realm, is there yet another layer to the onion? Is it turtles all the way down?

  • @AdamKane-dw8hh
    @AdamKane-dw8hh 2 месяца назад

    Great analysis. I wonder if Minority Report's John Anderton is an aside to these movies. You have the bald psychics who reside in water. The manipulation of events which have been overseen by John Anderton watching a screen and using his hands like a conductor. When John sees himself in the screen and the lady who is watching from another screen says, " I don't know what I'm looking at or something like that.

    • @AdamKane-dw8hh
      @AdamKane-dw8hh 2 месяца назад

      There is even a link to the Jason Bourne movies. When Jason Bourne is found floating in water and rescued he has no clue as to his real identity

  • @blitzkriegbear6192
    @blitzkriegbear6192 Год назад +1

    The matrix script was stolen from Tom Althouse, check out Alfa Vedics channel and search for his name, its pretty eye opening. The original name for the movie was called Immortals.

  • @notoottonis6587
    @notoottonis6587 Год назад +2

    Dark City 1998 = 666 X 3 I saw the movie in Munich and was very impressed.
    My companions not at all what irritated me again but I was also secret R.Steiner reader at that time.The predecessor of Matrix? That is an ingenious conclusion...

    • @ShiroiTengu
      @ShiroiTengu Год назад +4

      Not only it's predecessor in story but the Matrix literally reused some of the city sets that were built for Dark City!

    • @WullieMammothWizard_1
      @WullieMammothWizard_1 Год назад +1

      @@ShiroiTengu It was filmed in some of the same studio sets in Australia

  • @dinarimareva3862
    @dinarimareva3862 11 месяцев назад

    saw this movie a very long time ago, and indeed didn't like it. really enjoyed seeing it with the new eyes and listening to your commentary on it. thank you! i'm really enjoying your work.

  • @AwesomeHotSauceandKristosCast
    @AwesomeHotSauceandKristosCast Год назад +1

    From William Gibson's view, whose books were said to be the foundation for the Matrix, Johnny Mnemonic, a character from another of his novels was the prototype for Neo, and that Neo was the perfection of his predecessor. What's interesting is that in the movies, Keanu Reeves portrays both Johnny Mnemonic, and later, Neo. Also I think the casing of all men for the strangers has three reasons: dark sorcerers or priesthoods throughout time from Sumer to Canaan to Carthage and through to present have been men. Most secret societies are Fraternal Orders. And well... Most of Hollywood puts from the rough. So you potentially have Mystery Babylon archetypes being portrayed as the strangers, and Hollywood is shares their affinity for sodomy. It's a little disturbing that a child is one of the strangers, the only one that appears to express emotions, albeit only sadistic pleasure in his work. That means it's a dead child if they are using bodies as vessels. It's a form of subconscious trauma for an empathetic audience to see. Myself counted in that. It's unsettling.

  • @msspacecake121
    @msspacecake121 Год назад +1

    Nisurgadata will help you real eyes... We are remembering

  • @dingdong5601
    @dingdong5601 Год назад +1

    Hi, guys. It's Matt.

  • @354seven
    @354seven Год назад

    awesome thanks, I remember this movie.

  • @summerseverson1267
    @summerseverson1267 Год назад

    Favorite movie I saw it when I was a junior in high school

  • @robertsmithers9059
    @robertsmithers9059 Год назад +1

    "The Book of Dreams" is also the title of another album, by Italian progressive rock band Mangala Vallis.

    • @XTibbs1
      @XTibbs1 Год назад

      The book of miracles for our realm.

  • @happierabroad
    @happierabroad Год назад +1

    Any of you seen JayDreamerZ's 2 hour analysis of Dark City on RUclips? It's very good too.

  • @TeeFetch
    @TeeFetch Год назад +1

    It is quicker to go through the maze if the maze is still.

  • @guardcharlie2576
    @guardcharlie2576 Год назад

    Wow I never heard of this film, fascinating dialogue thank you 👌

  • @jenniferm6042
    @jenniferm6042 Год назад +4

    I haven't watched it in awhile, but didn't Truman exit the "cave" at the end?

    • @howdiemickoskitalks
      @howdiemickoskitalks  Год назад +12

      How do you know he exited the cave and wasn't just going into another layer? They never showed us, if it was the "real world we live in" that's cave too

    • @jenniferm6042
      @jenniferm6042 Год назад +2

      @@howdiemickoskitalks Right! I was wondering that too... similar to in the Matrix. Waking up in just another level of the Matrix (graduated animal farms, as Matt puts it) Thanks for sharing your ideas and deep thoughts with us 💕

  • @CoreyLeland
    @CoreyLeland Год назад

    Just now listening to this analysis video however, I've pointed to this move as one of my all time favorites for many years. It suggests the power of the individual like no other. It's more of a documentary than science fiction in that the arc of the protagonist is one of the True Spiritual Student to outgrow and escape what Christ calls "this world." The goal of dissolving the prison of time/space through Realization of the Real Self.

  • @aneyethatcansee9045
    @aneyethatcansee9045 Год назад

    Just got Exit the Cave. 👍👏🙏 Looking forward to part 2.

  • @valeriyanev11
    @valeriyanev11 Год назад +2

    Hi Mickoski,
    Great analysis. Thank you.
    Quick question, what's your view on John Carpenter's "They live " ?

    • @XTibbs1
      @XTibbs1 Год назад +3

      You don't need sunglasses?

    • @valeriyanev11
      @valeriyanev11 Год назад

      @@XTibbs1
      Your comment reveals a high level of ignorance.
      First, are you making a statement or asking a question?
      And second...
      Have you seen the movie "Free guy "?! The resemblance between you and Buddy is very strong.

  • @Tunnelmental
    @Tunnelmental Год назад

    Thanks Howdie. The key word in all of your analysis for NOW is INJECTIONS.

  • @AwesomeHotSauceandKristosCast
    @AwesomeHotSauceandKristosCast Год назад

    Another thing about the adjustment Bureau that I don't think a lot of people picked up on the symbolism of, Is that Matt Damon's character basically frees the devil from the basement. The devil, as I view him, becomes the new chairman, and basically imprisons the old chairman, the white-haired Caucasian (God?) And of course for his part in releasing the dark "man" the basement, Matt Damon gets what he wants. Who knows what he just unleashed on the world, but hey, at least he's happy, for now. They portray this as a positive change of guard in the movie, but I don't buy it. He is the fair and Enlightened one, and the old man [old ways, disciplining father] was too strict, right? This new Obama Chairman was the way of the future who will give you what you want like a good Socialist dictator.

  • @Reawer
    @Reawer Год назад

    Anderson comes from Scandinavia and literally means duck'er'son since a duck is spelled and

  • @auralbalm
    @auralbalm Год назад

    I'm even watching the vampire diaries series and gleaning a lot of soul trap truth bombs from there. Cycles of suffering, what it means to be human, temptations of the flesh...

  • @lee.m.506
    @lee.m.506 Год назад +3

    I feel like I'm in first grade. Sitting at my desk and trying to contemplate graduating from high school. It seems like that day can never come. But it did...

  • @paulhogsten2613
    @paulhogsten2613 Год назад +2

    Siskel and Ebert - Dark City review (1998): ruclips.net/video/CG1FqNdnkrM/видео.html

  • @rogerthecabinboy2012
    @rogerthecabinboy2012 Год назад

    Why would comments free from profanity, pertinent and succinct be removed? Anyone else having this issue?

  • @Solarian2007
    @Solarian2007 Год назад

    Excellent! One of your BEST! Can you enable transcripts on here?

  • @joshuawood1428
    @joshuawood1428 6 месяцев назад

    hey, do you think knowing what we know now that the fish could've been an individual you know like somebody else.
    Because I've noticed on all the movies are decoded that there's this universal rhythm we're like the villain plays a good guy. The good guy plays the villain and there's a lot of like weirdness to it. I was trying to figure out who the Dutch brothers are in this.

  • @poindextertunes
    @poindextertunes 3 месяца назад

    The Matrix was written in the early 90s so I dont think it took anything from Dark City. It just happens to have similar themes. Paralleled thinking as it were

  • @xl5388
    @xl5388 Год назад

    I really like the idea of the universe manifesting some movies. It would be out of character for the same degenerate production houses to also put out these profound pieces. The universe Intending it seems as plausible if not more likely than anything else. Dark City is definitely Matrix part one. For even more narrative background into the Matrix, "The Animatrix" is a must, especially now as it's storyline mirrors what's currently going on socially with AI and people being angry at it's effect on the arts and other industries.

    • @TrolloLogics
      @TrolloLogics Год назад +1

      There is a filmstudio called „Universe Films“ (or something similar) too, so it could have been the studio he meant, they made films like „eXistenZ“

  • @TheVeganSceptic
    @TheVeganSceptic Год назад +1

    This makes me pumped for the book!

    • @AngstG
      @AngstG Год назад

      If you're referring to Howdie's latest book 'Exit The Cave' it is a very good read. I have enjoyed listening to your interviews and perspectives with Mark of FCR Channel. Cheers!

    • @TheVeganSceptic
      @TheVeganSceptic Год назад

      @@AngstG Yeah, I can't wait to listen to Howdie's audiobook. Thank you for the support! Cheers!

  • @TeeFetch
    @TeeFetch Год назад +1

    Is memory itself, the thing and the capacity thereof an artificial construction, and that memories are a religion that binds us here, letting go of the memory is a memory wipe, the one thing we all fear. Death which is elimination memory, amnesia, it's that moment we get born again into whatever we allow ourselves to accept. So now is all there is if you do not choose to learn something as real. This is a screen, you accept this is a screen you are looking at. At one point you were told this is a screen and you accepted that and put it in memory. The hell is memory, habit, ritual, and routine that's what manifests a world, dream shit over and over until you know and remember the dream and are living it through memory. The future is dependent on memory, the future the way we were taught to think of in terms of what is manifested next.

    • @TeeFetch
      @TeeFetch Год назад

      So life is a dream, our real life is us in the dream state. Our memories are the death or sleep from our real world of spontaoues creation?

  • @KARIS1961
    @KARIS1961 Год назад

    I’m watching this before seeing the movie.

  • @hermanhale9258
    @hermanhale9258 Год назад

    Maybe the movie Signs is a prequel, where the aliens try to take control of the world, but fail.

  • @bryanhernandez2045
    @bryanhernandez2045 Год назад +2

    Awesome analysis. Another movie, albeit lesser known and not as well made is the Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp. The number “9” representing the reincarnation loop (as anything multiplied by 9 can be reduced back to 9). Also, hence the number “9” house that the couple get trapped in in another film about archonic entities using humans for their energy Vivarium 2020.

  • @Kooljupiter
    @Kooljupiter 5 месяцев назад

    there is a Japanese animated movie title "Patema Inverted" that seems to deal with some similar themes and layers to reality or this place we inhabit
    Have you seen or heard of it?

  • @deadreckoner5276
    @deadreckoner5276 Год назад +2

    Stranger is an anagram for Agent.

  • @ash0787
    @ash0787 Год назад

    I think I know now why this movie released in 1998.

  • @michellegalvan4923
    @michellegalvan4923 Год назад

    Thank you 🙏💕🕊️🥰

  • @anthonywall5227
    @anthonywall5227 Год назад

    Thank you