Dark City

This movie was definitely one of the most captivating and thrilling movies we've seen so far. The director was able to make a modernized sort of sci-fi movie with the same Film Noir styles. Most of the movie is shown in darkness, just like The Asphalt Jungle, to create a Film Noir type of setting. The theme of the movie would be that we have no control over our lives and can't change that. Everyone in this movie, even the powerful aliens, are powerless against fate and have their own problems to solve. John Murdoch can't remember who he is and tries to solve the mystery of his reputation as a murderer. His wife is trying to get John to come back to her. The doctor is trying to teach John the truth about the aliens and the world they live in while he is being controlled by the aliens to do their dirty work. However, even the aliens are facing a problem of extinction, which is why they started this project to learn about the humans. Also, the maze where the mice is trying to find its way out in the doctor's lab represents how all the characters are, in a way, that mice and are trying to find the answers to their lives. When we learn that the whole city is a spaceship, it shows the whole city as a sort of labyrinth with no escape, which is the feeling we get from the characters' dilemmas.