Alex Proya's Dark City - Science Fiction Noir
Alex Proyas the director of Dark City takes ideas and ambience from many movies and integrates them all neatly in his visually amazing film. A cross between science fiction, film noir, dark comics, classic horror and early German films, Dark City fails to belong to any one category. This mixture is what makes the film creative and different along with its multi-layered symbolism. Mostly a science fiction story, Dark City deals with a man, John Murdock, struggling to overcome a great mystery as aliens interfere with his life. The aliens are known as “Strangers,” and do not wish to destroy the human race, but learn from it to survive. Proyas has created a very unique movie based on his use of “signs” to detail scenes. His film is dark physically and psychologically. In this film, Proyas creates a dark city similar to Gotham City in the original "Batman". There is nothing futuristic or imaginary about the city. Everything in it is a mix of different decades. This amazes the audience because we aren’t use to observing structures seen in the movie. The intentional mixture of culture throughout the different eras really contributed to the m
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