메타-영화로서의 알렉스 프로야(Alex Proyas)의 ｢다크 시티Dark city｣

Alex Proyas's Dark City as a Meta-film

Dark City directed by Alex Proyas(1998) is composed entirely of digital images. Some characters in the film are E.Ts, sort of machines or systems giving information. They create the virtual world made up of the digital. The digital replacing the traditional analogue images could simulate any image of the real world, even if they are not produced by the camera-eye. One of the paper's aims is to explore the function and the effect of  these digital images in the film. After studying the digital images in the film, the paper will go to the second question.     The second question Alex Proyas poses is 'what film images become when the digital images conquer the traditional images?' This question makes Dark City to be illuminated in terms of a meta-film, a film about a film. Within the film, there are two films, 'The Evil' and 'Book of Dreams.' The former directed by E.T. is produced by means of digital technique while the latter directed by John Murdock is made of images captured by the camera-eye. As the former is condemned to create the impossible, it is not possible that not only any spectacular images but also any significant images can be produced. In the latter, John Murdock expresses his desire to take back the function of the camera-eye to the cinema.