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This film offers a bit of a view into the concept of dying before you die...or, perhaps it’s a take on astral travel…or, more likely “drop-ins.” Regardless, the film offers, to those looking for "ideas", an experience reminding us of the possibility that we too move in and out of "vessels", continuously taking rebirth. Once in a "new" vessel we become identified with the dreams and memories of the most recent machine and take its memories as our own, much as the characters in Dark City. I suppose, once more, we too should ask ourselves as voyagers, if our memories are genuine?
Another relevant question we should consider and ask seriously...is this new day the same day as yesterday? Is there anything different? Is my garden, the same garden, as I remember yesterday? This concept outlined in the Book of the Dead is challenging and striking at the core of our identification with the machine or vessel our beings inhabit.
Dark City offers a "sci-fi" vision of this concept and serves as a reminder that we too take our surface perceptions as true and assume we inhabit a static and unchanging landscape and forget to penetrate clear through to the present moment and lack the will and/or cunning to search for shell beach (the heart of the labyrinth).
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