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Dark City (1998)
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by New Line Home Video
Sales Rank: 17901
Price: $14.98
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If you're a fan of brooding comic-book antiheroes, got a nihilistic jolt from <I>The Crow</I> (1994), and share director Alex Proyas's highly developed preoccupation for style over substance, you might be tempted to call <I>Dark City</I> an instant classic of visual imagination. It's one of those films that exists in a world purely of its own making, setting its own rules and playing by them fairly, so that even its derivative elements (and there are quite a few) acquire their own specific uniqueness. Before long, however, the film becomes interesting only as a triumph of production design. And while that's certainly enough to grab your attention (<I>Blade Runner</I> is considered a classic, after all), it's painfully clear that <I>Dark City</I> has precious little heart and soul. One-dimensional characters are no match for the film's abundance of retro-futuristic style, so it's best to admire the latter on its own splendidly cinematic terms. Trivia buffs will be interested to know that the film's 50-plus sets (partially inspired by German expressionism) were built at the Fox Film Studios in Sydney, Australia, home base of director Alex Proyas and producer Andrew Mason. The underground world depicted in the film required the largest indoor set ever built in Australia. <I>--Jeff Shannon</I>
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Just as an addendum to the other reviews regarding the possibility that we live in a controlled or manipulable reality: this is for anyone using the internet, and possibly their "hunches," to help them figure out the state of the world. You could, theoretically, be getting fed a self-consistent "channel," or selective reality.
Every now and then, it may help to break out and grab a hold of some non-manipulable sources to verify your standard reality.
Question your "hunches:" examine their possible source & selectively shut out some sensory or electronic input communication sources, at least temporarily (long enough to develop a referential reality, if you can stand it that long.)
If this is irrelevant now, dredge it up for reexamining later, say in 2020. And if it's not valid then, then put it in a box for another 20 years, or whatever.
This outlier mindset this movie facilitates, and the back-of-the-mind responses to such outlier scenarios, makes it worth watching at least once every couple of years. I would recommend buying it.
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