Post #12

Thus far, I've tried to avoid simply stating my opinions about the films we've watched, but Dark City is now definitely my favorite. In all of the other films that we have watched so far, I have been able to predict most everything that would happen (with the partial exception of Citizen Kane). With Dark City, I was shocked over and over again by the latest plot twists. At first, this film seemed very much like a classic noir, but we discover Murdoch's mysterious telekinetic powers and meet "the strangers". Next we see the tuning. I thought that the way the strangers turned the two poor people into part of the upper class was very interesting. It brings up a whole idea of whether or not people are born with any of the characteristics that they develop in the future. This film seems to take the position that experiences are a more image-shaping force than genetics. Finally, we then see that the entire city takes place on a rotating object in outer space. This part was extremely unnerving, because I realized that if we as humans were actually living in a situation like Murdoch and the others, we would have no way of knowing. Perhaps we are just part of some giant experiment, performed by greater beings than ourselves.