Now, its true that there are other "plot holes" in this movie, other gaps in the imaginary world, the development of the plot, and the course of the overarching narrative. He can also, unless he chooses, remain awake during the midnight time when the humans doze and the Strangers prowl - though the Doctor does as well. Another is to resist being reimprinted with new concoctions of memories, which occurs just before the movie's action begins. One of these is the capacity to "tune," to rework the physical reality of the cityscape. One human, named John Murdock - at least at that point in the endless combinatorics - unexpectedly develops new capacities beyond the normal human range, along lines that take lifetimes for the Strangers to master. They carry this out every night, stopping all the clocks at midnight, and sending every human being into a somnolent momentary slump. They move humans whose memories have been reworked, redistributed into new locations, assign then new jobs that they think they've worked for years, and partner them with new associates, friends, even spouses. They also do this with the interior landscapes of human minds, recombining elements of memories, swapping those batches of images, feelings, experiences, encounters among the human subjects. The experiments rearrange the entire city, piece by piece, permutation after permutation.
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The detective who goes mad - what happens with him should have been impossible, or if not that, if the Strangers really were omniscient and omnipotent, if they knew that city inside and out and what was going on with all of its residents, presumably they would have nipped his madness in the bud, kept him from talking to anyone, revealing what he had learned.įor those who haven't seen the movie yet, or need their memories refreshed, reinfused so to speak, the movie centers around a set of human characters caught up in a dark, neo-noir city constructed as a world by a race of aliens who employ human corpses as vehicles and carry out complex experiments upon the human beings, altering the very fabric of the shared reality, and - aided by a human doctor who they have permitted to retain enough of his memories to be of use to them (and seemingly his entire personality).
She noticed one apparent problem, a discrepancy between the stories and explanations provided by those who are "in the know" - the Strangers and Doctor S - and what actually does happen with the various characters. and make him the object of fear and fascination to, a race of thoroughly creepy aliens who nightly rearrange reality in order to progress their endless experiments with human memory, behavior, social roles
A man wakes up without his memories, but possessing two advantages his fellow humans do not - both of which reveal to him, call the attention of, set him in conflict with. After seeing it in the theater when it first came out in 1998, I've shown it in various Philosophy classes, and I've watched it on my own a number of times to enjoy again its semi-noir, moody, dimlit setting, its decent and entertaining play both with some philosophical concepts (or perhaps, rather, tropes), its reliably good though not outstanding acting. Over the long Labor Day weekend, my partner and wife-to-be and I watched the movie Dark City, for her first time and for perhaps my twentieth viewing.
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