Dark City

I really was appalled with this movie. I couldn't stop talking about it the whole week. It was definitely one of my favorite movies. It brought about such concepts - that I never thought people thought about. I always think about how, for all we know, we could be living a dream. We could wake up at any moment. And who's in control?

I loved that someone else thinks those thoughts besides me. It was a movie that gave me something to think about. A chance to escape from reality.

I enjoyed how "Dark City" was filmed. The fact that it begins with a man in water (rebirth, and signifying that he is resistant to the aliens like the water) and how he scoops up the goldfish and puts it in the water. This ambiguous beginning gave the viewers a chance to decide what we thought of John Murduch, ourselves.

I appreciate how the viewer can interpret the whole film as he/she wants. It represents that you are who you make yourself, which every viewer recognizes in the end. That's great; the fact that the lesson of the movie is what the viewer realizes by himself/herself without it being stated openly.

And lastly, I love how in the end, both main characters, the man and the woman, end up together anyways - as if the director was purposely trying to add in the concept that fate exists.

"O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?"

Edgar Allen Poe, 'A Dream Within A Dream'