Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

1998
A brooding, visionary sci-fi noir, Dark City is a dazzling meditation on memory, identity, and control—one that beat The Matrix to many of its ideas and arguably did them with more visual poetry. Alex Proyas constructs a surreal urban maze where day never breaks and architecture bends to unseen will, creating a nightmarish dreamscape soaked in German Expressionism and philosophical dread.
Rufus Sewell is solid as the disoriented everyman, but it’s Jennifer Connelly who emerges as the film’s aching soul.…