Dark City Essay | Essay

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Dark City Essay | Essay

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Comparative Study

Summary: Comparative study of 'Memoirs' by Doris Lessing and Dark City' by Alex Proyas.
Comparative Study Assessment

The film, "Dark City", directed by Alex Proyas and the novel "Memoirs of a Survivor" by Doris Lessing explore dystopian societies but in very different ways. Lessing uses self-reflexive questions and allusions in order to draw attention to the way she constantly speculates on what is happening in her world, which is characterised by "the ordinariness of the extraordinary", thus contributing to our sense of the text as dystopian, as concerned with the clash of alternative realities. Proyas on the other hand crosses all literary boundaries in the film by bringing us a startling vision of a bleak, alternate reality and touching on existentialist philosophy, such as the role of memory in shaping one's identity and the perception of reality.

The Memoirs of a Survivor is set in the near future at "a time of savagery and anarchy", although it is never made clear what...

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