Seeking relief after a string of bad movies, another suck of the Dark City sav.
















Lions aren't sure why they still take screenshots, since all IMDB is nowadays a bunch of screenshots from the same pirated vijeo.  Every viewing of the Dark City yields new insights.

 

Suspect the alien experiment hadn't been going on for very long, maybe less than a year after the abductions.  On the other paw, tales of alien abductions have gone on since the 1940's.  The visuals were all based on the 1940's so it could have happened in a timespan of under a year, in the 1940's.

Lions can't remember ever seeing the theatric cut or hearing an opening monologue, but apparently the 1st viewing back in 2000 was the theatric version.  There are some parallels to being on a martian schedule in that so much of your life happens entirely at night. 

Strangely, no-one ever made up a hypothetical map of the city which included locations of all the scenes in the movie.  The movie just came out too long ago.  The space prop seems too small for the amount of train riding, driving, & boat rowing shown. It was convincing enough for just a few seconds.  What if they went to sleep 1 night & the next day didn't happen, as an even bigger alien mother ship came to get Murdoch.  Would make a good sequel.

 



It would have to be San Francisco in size, with the buildings more like grains of sand.


Lions feel some parallels to real life in that we all have the same memories nowadays, as dictated by just a few men.  We don't make anything up as we go, like the good old days.

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