Dark City (1998) is REALLY About THIS!
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Dark City presents a dream world, wherein a group of alien-like archons or angelic rulers/daemons known as the “Strangers” control manufactured city by “tuning” it every night, meaning the city is re-created and it’s rat-like inhabitants are implanted with new memories. They are able to conform physical reality by will alone (“tuning”), and one of their subjects, John Murdoch, eventually attains this ability. Immediately, we realize the basic theory of “magick” at work, which is the act of conforming reality to your will. However, the Strangers do it by telekenesis, and eventually so does John Murdoch. - Zábava
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The sheer amount of music videos with blood baths is incredible, symbolism and the repetition is beyond belief
"I was about to make a joke but . . . I better not."
How much should I read into this?
Rufus Sewell...backwards...Llewes sufur...Lucifer. Just a coincidences, folks.
Wow, never caught that!!!
Well spotted
My favorite part is when Sutherland, the mk ultra doctor, implants himself as a mentor in all John's memories. I think we all wish we could mentor our young selves
on my self for over a decade, a great re-watch movie, VHS baby...
You have the beach motif in Shawsank Redemption which is perhaps the least malicious of these gnostic movies.
I guess it is an gnostic apotheosis interpretation of Jesus standing in his resurrected body on the beach in John 21:4 (Shawsank also alludes by it’s theme to John 20:19).
In Orthodoxy in contrast you get this body through Theosis.
So you have the tension there between the two, Apotheosis and Theosis.
You subsequently get the tension between the Nous (eye of the soul, in your heart) and the Third eye (eye of the mind).
The third eye is very easy to fool. As it really is just our solipsism. The gnostics admit to this themselves by their metaphysics, but some how these gnostics in their Pride believe their are ”elected” by tweaking their third eye to able to go above this. Which is totally ridiculous. This is somewhat admitted to in the end of Existenz and Inception, the latter alludes to Dark City with the bathtub and the Guy who kills himself (wife in Inception). The motif in these movies with one who kills him/herself and one who doesn’t is how these gnostics knowingly or unknowingly admit they are psycotic. Any normal person would be insane when living out one’s unlimited phantasies in eternity.
Movies like Solaris (especially the remake) and Event Horizon etc. Makes even more clear that Apotheosis (i.e glorified solipism) is Hell itself.
God did not create Evil, it is an absence of him. Subsequently Hell is created by the free will of those who fall who place themselves into that state.
”Libera temet ab inferis” to paraphrase Event Horizon
Interesting analysis!
Caveats:
1. Perhaps I was a little hard on Shawsank, some might want to interpret it as a properly christian movie and not a gnostic one. I think it could be interpreted as both. This is irrelevant as the beach symbolism holds in either case.
2. I undersold the third eye a little bit. It is in itself actually Contemplation, which is a very good and useful thing but this faculty alone without Wisdom can be self damaging. As there is a lack of self knowledge.
Scripture is a way of learning from history or other peoples’ mistakes, if you will. Things that go beyond the scope of anyone’s third eye (Lucifer and Adam still fell even though graced by high intelligence). The heart is the organ which sees God. Not the brain.
This lack of Wisdom we have in the west is the main theme in Memento, also by Nolan. In the last scene he is told the truth but instead very Cain like chooses to follow his desires by putting false scripture on his body to kill his brother. Nolan juxtaposes solipsism and scripture here. In a possible gnostic way, as it could be a critique of proper scripture. But the strongest interpretation I think is that Nolan shows how most people today live by their own gospel.
What does that mean? Freedom unrestricted is hell??
@@kingsleyoji649 True freedom is to be able to do what we are supposed to (God's will). Read Romans 7:15 to 7:20 c.f., Galatians 2:20 i.e., True freedom is dependent on God's law.
We can as far as I see it have Synergy with a captial S with The Holy Spirit, but unless we are ever watchful (1st Peter 5) we will have synergy with a lower case s with the Enemy or any of the spirits under him.
It is not by chance Crowley said "do what thou wilt" and lived a life totally reversed and mirrored of the Orthodox life.
@@henrik_worst_of_sinners oh I meant the latin
I'm a HUGE fan of this film and like you all, I feel it has a lot of strange connections to things in this world. For instance, when John first witnesses the tuning and everyone is asleep, we see a shot of the cinema and the showing currently running says "The Evil" in large letters followed by "Late night showings". The outsiders we see that have the ability to stop time, influence our thoughts etc are perfect examples of what we refer to as 'Shadow People'. Their top chain people we rarely hear of are called the "hat man" and if you see them, you know it's very bad news. I could go on with a tonne more references but to say this film leaves a LOT to think about is an understatement. One final thought, the shadow people have said they inhabitted this earth for 1000s of years and yet they can't walk on this earth like we do it seems, sort of like they have worked out what it is to have our souls!
The trailer to this movie is what hooked me. Such a cool film.
Our present day internet as a whole seems like a system that just keeps us thinking in circles. Echo chambers everywhere. Social media is a dark city floating in space
Amen
Yay new Jay. One of my favorite movies!
Fascinating analysis. Thank you, Jay. I owned this on VHS in the late 90s and later got the DVD. Dark City was #1 on Roger Ebert's Top Ten List of Best Films of 1998. If I remember right, Ebert liked it so much he did an audio commentary for the DVD.
It's a shame your film analysis vids dont get more views
One of the great horror flicks of the 1990s,.....beats the hell out of Scream.
It's sci-fi/neo-noir, not horror.
@@Emper0rH0rde Well excuse me all to hell.....and what genre would the B-classic Uptight Fascist Cinema Geeks fall into?
@@cognitivedissident4615 Okay seriously, what is with the attitude? Why the hair trigger temper? What have I said that warrants such an angry response?
@@Emper0rH0rde no man I'm just messing with you, I used to be a horror geek myself. Have you ever read Nightmare Movies by Kim Newman?
The Fixx - "Reach the Beach", song and album by The Fixx.
Some of their songs and music videos have satanic/masonic symbolism in them.
"Sunshine in the Shade" in particular.
Well the movie Dark City is ultimately based on Plato's cave. One have to wake up to the realization that, he or she is trapped in a cave and that he can only watch the shadows or projections on the wall and from this condition naturally arises the need to escape this condition, to lave the cave and see the Sun, aka true reality.
Plato's cave comes from a much older deeper mythical background. For example in the Eleusinian mysteries, the initiates were seeking a shorter route to the Paradise (Elysium), which included a journey through the Underworld, e.g. like Orpheus.
Shell beach is Paradise obviously. This myth has it's origins in dreams.
The strangers are cronians, though the association of Cronus with time is not entirely correct, since the god of time was Chronus. But Cronus actually means, the horned one, who fell from grace - Satan. So the dwelling of the strangers in the Tartarus. The city itself is the Underworld, or Hades, since the "souls" there roam without memories, just like in the Greek myth.
Schreiber is a failed messiah. John is Orpheus. Emma is Eurydice but also Persephone. And I guess that Bumstead is Hades, since Hades was the enforcer of the law in the Underworld, not evil in itself.
So the City is the Underworld, Earth is the world of the living so to speak. John arrives to the city, later he awakens and does that messiah stuff, the Hero's journey and creates or "opens the gates" of the Paradise - Shell beach.
They were looking for the human soul. They thought it was tied to memories.
Sup Jay. What say you about the single episode Comedy Central cartoon show which aired back around 2016 and has Kobe Bryant die inside his crashed chopper?
AND: around second 9 from the beginning of the scene there appears then quickly disappears a new, different character with a handgun he has pointing towards Kobe and his chopper. I had to pause the video in order to catch it.
Thanks bud
Cheers
Illuminati sacrifice maybe...?
I think Jay pointed out in the first analysis, that Jennifer Connelly is also in the Labyrinth, which is another Gnostic themed movie. Phillip k. Dick wrote a good Gnostic themed Book that got turned into a movie called the adjustment bureu. This theme has been rehashed quite a few times in different ways. Nightmare on elm Street, Last year it was escape room. I always find these movies interesting.
Shell = front in espionage circles, and it could also be hell if the s in shell is obscured. The abyss is hell? Deep space? A sim? Something else? Not sure, but we learn new stuff everyday! Thanks for these great analyses Jay! Keep up the great work! :)
Dark City, the Matrix and the Truman Show were interpretations based on an actual event that occurred in 1989.
Don't forget the 13th floor.
What event?
@@vegeta8169 An unknown event.
@shemi shami nope
Dark City was based on - or at least inspired by - a recurring nightmare that Alex Proyas had. But I'm curious to know which event you're referring to.
Despite not mentioning her or her character in the analysis, Jay uses an image of Jennifer Connelly for the thumbnail. This man obviously knows what he’s doing.
I highly recommend these two comic book series: Transmetropolitan and The Invisibles!!
Whoa.. didn't even realize the flat circle line u till u just said this.. thats nuts bro good shit good work as always
They used some of the same sets in the matrix.
Amd clothing
Mute Jennifer Connelly singing. Yikes. Watch her roller skating scene in Career opportunities(1991). Wowie Zowie
Greetings from Shell Beach ;)
Another great analysis. Thank you. I've been trying to work out why the aliens equipped the floating world with all the water at the end. Love your channel.!
Great analysis. The same director did Gods of Egypt. Did you cover that movie yet?
Saw this at the movies in 1998. Haven’t seen it since, but it was a banger of a movie.
I figured John seeing his Shell Beach Guide filled in (him realizing his will manifests reality) is crossing him the abyss. He first saw the guide at the Neptune with uncle boomer. Maybe?
I saw you made a review so I watched the movie first. Never watched it before. Pretty wild. Kiefers crib wheel chair made me think of an iron maide torture device.
Yeah! This was great movie. The dresscode standard for the matrix:-)
Play my frequency. I want my head to pop.
So many films I need to see that I haven't seen.
The Beach (2000) also does some alt-reality stuff like this too; might track on your list.
Your Matthew mcconaughey impression is great
Hi Jay, have you seen/reviewed 'The City of Lost Children'? TIA
Been wanting to watch that again recently. I remember really enjoying it
Neptune. Reminds me of Scientology ...? Water is the symbol of gate to the other dimensions too.
A-ha...Jay doesn't catch the Schrieber reference. He soooo smart.
Calling your writing mediocre is very generous. I shudder to think what the original post contained.
Jennifer Connelly was totally ravishing in 1998!
I really liked that movie. Very suspenseful and creepy (in a good way).
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Engagement boost
there was the film the beach, and sugar mountain is that like shell beach? , I know that's not 90s
Great thanks
Mais…Couldn’t get past your phlegm swallowing.
The Prestige
Kiefer Spergersoid
One of my favorite films from one of my favorite directors. Great F'ing analysis but I also see a whole 💉💉💉💉 thing. That movie was "inoculation city" all the way....every day (night) everyone was inoculated; religiously.
Thanks Jay, did you just ruin one of my favorite movies for me?
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can a human being stop acting like an Amerikkkan?! the right answer values 3k dollars.
God, hearing you talk about the movie is almost as boring as the movie itself