1998 · sci-fi · noir · mind-bending
Dark City
Directed by Alex Proyas1h 41m1998
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Our read: Dark City (1998) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal sci-fi · noir · mind-bending entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured sci-fi / noir, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
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