Dark City Film Post

Films such as the Dark City are always reminiscent of the life that I desire to live one day. A life of mystery and excitement, mystery and endless enjoyment around each corner. Yet at the end of the day, it's a moment of introspective thoughts culminated from thoughts throughout the day.

These film noirs, The Asphalt Jungle and Dark City have proven to be that gritty, yet slick lifestyle that I desire to be part of. A lifestyle where danger is lurking around each corner, where situations where life and death wrestle with each other, and such.

Much like what I said about The Asphalt Jungle being an allusion of my favorite genre of music, rap, Dark City just happens to be an updated version of the mafioso gangster mannerisms that rap offers.

Dark City reminds me of another Jay-Z album that I absolutely adore, which is American Gangster. The connection between American Gangster and Dark City is definitely more clear than the connection between American Gangster and The Asphalt Jungle. After all, American Gangster was basically an update from Reasonable Doubt (as stated in my other film post), and just makes more sense.

One moment in the Dark City specifically stuck out to me, and that was the rat maze that Dr. Daniel Schreber was toying around with in the beginning of the film, when Anna comes into the room. In American Gangster, there is a section in the album where Jay-Z contemplates about the idea of success and failure, but soon falls into failure. Yet he repeats the process all over again.


The rat maze in Dark City represents the fact that Murdoc was trying to find his way to success, the end, and happiness, and a song in American Gangster, "Success" shows the artist trying to find his way into having success. But yet, the song that follows quickly after that, "Fallin'," quickly shows how you can lose your way trying to find success, or the final end. Jay-Z is basically in a maze trying to find his way out of this "Fallin'," and basically trying to find his "Success."