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July 28, 2006
The Daddy of The Matrix
Dark City 1998--take a dollop of The Matrix mix thoroughly with about a half gallon of The Forgotten and a small dose of The Truman Show and you have the daddy of them all.
Dark City is an odd little film--Australian/United States Production with the talents of Rufus Sewell, Keifer Sutherland, William Hurt, and Jennifer Connelly.
Man wakes without memories in a hotel room wherein there is a murdered prostitute. And he travels about in a city where it is always night and where no one is the same from day to day.
Innovative, interesting, and surprising even after you've seen all that derives from it. One of those obscure films that help you to trace the origins of dozens of others. And perhaps rather than influencing The Matrix it shared the same Zeitgeist--but its motifs show up again and again in other films.
Adult subject matter, recommended for adults only, and only for those with a penchant for quirky SF.
Posted by Steven Riddle at July 28, 2006 10:21 PM
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Oddly enough, we watched that movie in our Lenten SF & religion small group, because a member recommended it. I thought it was decent. Some creepy bits.
Posted by: Elliot at August 2, 2006 4:56 PM