The Ushering In of Phenomenological Existentialism

Rating: Null/10 (26 April 2003)

Dark City is a perfect example of the new philosophical infatuation of the phenomenological existentialist being that can through prowess of personal consciousness alter the reality of their person such that their every schizophrenic whim is experienced as reality by all those in their proximity. This is a great and underrated movie that I've come across only because of my reading of posts by the truly cinema elitists who claimed that the more mainstream film The Matrix is a thematic usurper of this antecendent moment in cinematic history. As a filmmaker, writer first, I find it that Alex Proyas has beaten a great number of us to an idea that cinema will be cashing in on for time to come. Hopefully movies like the Matrix won't belittle the potential truths that derive from this viable, important philosophical movement.