This post is not a review of a movie but just some tid bits of various thoughts which swiveled around my minuscule brain after watching a movie.
The Movie which I am referring is Dark City
OK OK I understand people frowning and asking now which crap movie is this.
For some introductions this movie was a small budget Hollywood movie made in 1998 and it was NOT a commercial success.
Why the movie interested me was its uncanny story line and its more than coincidental similarities with a movie which released a year later ...The Matrix
The basic story of the movie goes like this.
A man wakes up from sleep not remembering anything.There are some bald guys in black suits who are trying to kill him and moreover he is being chased by a detective for murder.Finally he comes to know in course that he no longer lives in Earth but a galactic facility ruled by parasites in the guise of humans who has been interchanging the memories of their captured prisoners for the quest of the ultimate-Human Soul.How our protagonist finally overcomes these aliens in human suits and becomes the destiny Maker of the City forms the crux of the Story.
PS:Watch out for a young and extremely sweet Jennifer Connolly in the movie as the Protagonist's wife.
Now here goes the list of uncanny similarities I found which the Wachowski Brothers' Masterpiece while watching the Movie.
1)In Matrix machines have taken control over our mind and we live in a false reality.In Dark City the memories of the people are regularly interchanged so as to give them a false sense of identity. So one day you are a Hotel receptionist and the next day a book store owner.
2)The protagonist has come to behold similar powers like that of his adversaries much like Neo in Matrix.
3)In Matrix Lawrence Fishbourne knows the truth and helps Neo find his true destiny.Here a Doctor who was colluding with the Aliens helps our Hero to find his.
4)In Matrix the sunlight was shielded by the machines to enter the Earth,the Aliens have ensured no light enters their City(they cannot stand light) this the name Dark City.
5)In the climax Neo defeats Mr Smith to destroy the false reality AKA the Matrix.In Dark City the Hero kills all his enemies and changes the City and ensures there is "Day" time in the city.
I could go on and on with more points but these definitely were the most striking ones.
One Trivia before I close this post is shooting for both the movies took place at Fox Studios in Sydney!!!! Surprised huh?
Anyways I would recommend all the Science Fiction buffs to grab a DVD of it and watch it.Highly recommended.
3 comments:
I've never heard of this movie.. how is it...?
by the way, in your 4th point you wrote that in matrix, sunlight was shielded by the machines to enter the Earth but actually it was the human being who created the dust cloud by nukes to cut off the solar power necessary for the machines.. and thats why the machines started generating bio-electricity from human being....
extremely sorry about the 4th point,i jumbled up stuffs.You are absolutely right that man shielded the Sun and not the machines.
Well my point was that both movies were devoid of Sun :)
DARK CITY IS SO MUCH BETTER MOTHERFUCKER
FUCK U MATRIX MAKERS
U RIPPERS
FUCKING WHORISH SONS OF COCKSUCKING URINE SOAKED HITLERS
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