20.DARK CITY (1998)

DARK CITY (1998)

Language- English

Genre-       Neo-noir, science fiction

Director-   Alex Proyas

*ing-          Rufus Sewell (John Murdoch), Jennifer Connelly(Emma)

PLOT

                                                              John Murdoch woke up in a bathtub and suffers from an amnesia, he founds the corpse of a women who was brutally and ritualistically murdered in his room. In that shock, he receives phone from a person who reveal himself as Daniel Schreiber, and asks him to flee from the room to escape from a group a people who is coming there to investigate. Eventually John finds various truths about him, that his name, his wife Emma and most importantly that he is a suspect for various murders happened around the city, though he cannot remember killing anybody. Later he confronts with a group of people (known as strangers) and realize that he possesses super powers which is known as tuning, which the strangers also possess and uses his ability to get away from them. He doesn’t know what is happening in and around him like everyone gets falls asleep at midnight, the city always remains in dark and when he tries to get the direction of his home land, shell beach- which is the only memory he owns, no one knows it. Even no one remembers their own past.

                                                            Dark City is a 1998 American neo-noir science fiction film, which was nominated for Hugo and Saturn Awards, and has become a cult film. It can be said that this is an unsung classic among the Hollywood movies. This is the forerunner movie for matrix and even the great director Christopher Nolan studies Dark city for his movie Inception. It lacks good action scenes and CGI, but on theme wise and screenplay its one of the masterclass. This will surely a worth watching movie for all those who love science fiction.