导演：亚历克斯·普罗亚斯

编剧：亚历克斯·普罗亚斯

尼姆·杜布斯

主演：卢夫斯·塞维尔/威廉·赫特

基弗·萨瑟兰/詹妮弗·康纳利

首映日期：1998-02-27

The sound and visuals of this movie are not to be missed on the big screen if at all possible.

如果可能的话，一定不要在电影院的大银幕上错过这部影片的声音和视觉效果。

——Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

One of the most imaginative and creative films ever made.

已拍摄过的最有想象力和创造力的影片之一。

——David Keyes, Cinemaphile.org

If you enjoy Philip K. Dick's novels or German Expressionist films, you'll probably adore Dark City.

如果你喜欢菲利浦·K·迪克的小说或者德国表现主义电影，你可能会喜欢《移魂都市》。

——The Phantom Creep

John Murdoch(RLifus Sewell)awakens in a hotel bathtub, suffering from amnesia. He receives a telephone call from Dr. Daniel Schreber(Kiefer Sutherland), who urges him to flee the hotel from a group of men who are after him During the telephone conversation John discovers the corpse of a brutalized, ritualistically murdered woman, along with a bloody knife. Murdoch flees the scene, just as the group of men(known as the Strangers)arrive at the room. Eventually he learns his real name, and finds his wife Emma Murdoch(Jennifer Connelly). He is also sought by police inspector Frank Bumstead(William Hurt)for a series of murders allegedly committed by Murdoch, who cannot remember killing anybody. While being pursued by the Strangers, Murdoch discovers that he has psychokinetic powers like them, and he uses these powers to escape from them. Murdoch moves about the city, which experiences perpetual night. He sees people become temporarily comatose at midnight, when the Strangers stop time and alter the cityscape, as well as people's identities and memories. Murdoch questions the dark urban environment, and discovers——through clues and interviews with his family—that he was originally from a coastal town called Shell Beach. Attempts at finding a way out of the city to Shell Beach are hindered by lack of reliable information from everyone he meets. Meanwhile, the Strangers, disturbed by the presence of this human who also possesses psychokinetic powers, inject one of their men, Mr. Hand(O'Brien)with Murdoch's memories, in an attempt to find him.

Murdoch eventually finds Bumstead, who recognizes Murdoch's innocence and has his own questions about the nature of the dark city. They find and confront Dr. Schreber, who explains that the Strangers are endangered extraterrestrial parasites who use corpses as their hosts. Having a collective consciousness, the Strangers have been experimenting with humans to analyze their individuality in the hopes that some insight might be revealed that would help their race survive. Schreber reveals Murdoch as an anomaly who inadvertently awoke during one midnight process, when Schreber was in the middle of fashioning his identity as a murderer. The three men embark to find Shell Beach, which ultimately exists only as a billboard at the edge of the city. Frustrated, Murdoch tears through the wall, revealing a hole into outer space. The men are confronted by the Strangers, including Mr. Hand, who holds Emma hostage. In the ensuing fight, Bumstead, along with one of the Strangers, falls through the hole into space, revealing the city as an enormous space habitat surrounded by a force field.

The Strangers bring Murdoch to their home beneath the city and force Dr. Schreber to imprint Murdoch with their collective memory, believing Murdoch to be the final answer to their experiments. Schreber betrays them by inserting false memories in Murdoch which artificially reestablish his childhood as years spent training and honing his psychokinetic abilities and learning about the Strangers and their machines. Murdoch awakens, fully realizing his abilities, frees himself and battles with the Strangers, defeating their leader Mr. Book in a battle high above the city. After learning from Dr Schreber that Emma's personality is gone and cannot be restored within her body, Murdoch utilizes his new-found powers through the Strangers' machine to create an actual Shell Beach by flooding the area within the force field with water and forming mountains and beaches. On his way to Shell Beach, Murdoch encounters Mr. Hand and informs him that the Strangers have been searching in the wrong place—the head——to understand humanity. Murdoch opens the door leading out of the city, and steps out to view a sunrise that he created. Beyond him is a dock, where he finds the woman he knew as Emma, now with new memories and a new identity as Anna. Murdoch reintroduces himself as they walk to Shell Beach, beginning their relationship anew.

约翰·默多克(卢夫斯·塞维尔饰)在一间酒店的浴缸中醒来，发现自己丧失了记忆。这时一通神秘电话打来，对方自称是丹尼尔·舒伯医生(基弗·萨瑟兰饰)，告知默多克有一个组织正在追杀他，并催促他赶快离开酒店。就在通话期间，他发现身边有一具冰冷的女尸，旁边还有一把沾满血迹的刀。在神秘组织(亦称异族人)赶到酒店前，默多克逃离了现场。后来他逐渐了解到他的真实身份，找到了他的妻子艾玛·默多克(詹妮弗·康纳利饰)。虽然默多克根本不记得自己杀了人，却因涉嫌一起连环凶杀案被侦查员弗兰克·巴姆斯特德(威廉·赫特饰)追捕。在被异族人追杀的时候，默多克发现自己具有与异族人一样的超能力，也因此成功摆脱追杀。默多克在这座永无天日的城市中穿梭，发现每到午夜时分，异族人会将时间停止，交换人们的身份和记忆，让人们进入昏迷状态。默多克开始怀疑这座黑暗城市的真面目，通过种种线索和与家人的对话，他得知自己来自于一座名叫“贝壳沙滩”的海滨小镇。默多克努力寻找“贝壳沙滩”，但是城里所有人都不曾记得如何到达。与此同时，异族人的计划因同样拥有超能力的默多克的出现而受阻，他们将默多克的记忆植入其中一位异族人脑中，试图将默多克找到。

后来，巴姆斯特德警员调查发现默多克是无辜的，也开始怀疑这座黑暗城市的真面目，他和默多克一起找到了舒伯医生，得知异族人是寄居在人类尸体里的一种濒临灭绝的外星球物种，拥有共同的意识。他们拿人类做实验，研究人类不同的个性特征，试图找到拯救种族的方法。舒伯承认自己帮助异族人在午夜进行实验，那天在把谋杀犯的身份植入默多克记忆的过程中，默多克意外地醒来。于是，三人同行开始寻找“贝壳沙滩”，他们发现城市边缘的一张海报墙后，有一个通往外界的洞。撕开海报墙，异族人出现在眼前，其中一位名叫汉先生的异族人劫持了默多克的妻子艾玛。在接下来的打斗中，巴姆斯特德和一位异族人不小心从洞口掉了下去，这也揭露了这座城市的真实面目——用力场置于空中的一个巨大悬浮空间。

异族人把默多克带到他们在城市地下的基地，逼舒伯医生把异族人的记忆植入默多克脑中，认为这样能达到实验的目的。舒伯医生偷梁换柱，把他童年的记忆换成多年训练习得的掌握超能力和运用异族人机器的记忆植入默多克脑中。当默多克醒来时，便发现自己会灵活运用超能力，他解除了束缚，与异族人战斗，并在一次城市高空战斗中战胜了异族人首领伯克先生。舒伯医生告诉默多克，艾玛的个性已经失去且无法复原，默多克便决定运用自己的超能力和异族人的机器建造一座真正的“贝壳沙滩”，他用水将力场笼罩的地方淹没，建造了高山和沙滩。在去“贝壳沙滩”的途中，默多克遇到汉先生，告诉他异族人通过人脑去了解人性的做法是错误的。默多克开启了通往另一座城市的门，踏入自己建造的“贝壳沙滩”。阳光普照，他的妻子艾玛正站在面前的码头，如今她的名字叫安娜，拥有另外一个人的身份和记忆。默多克又一次向她介绍了自己，两人携手走进“贝壳沙滩”，重新开始一段新恋情。

bathtub['bɑ:θtʌb]n. 浴缸

amnesia[æm'ni:zjə]n.[医]健忘症，记忆缺失

allegedly[ə'leʤidli]adv. 依其申述

comatose['kəʊmətəʊs]adj. 昏迷的;昏睡状态的;麻木的;怠惰的

cityscape['sitiskeip]n. 都市风景;城市风光

billboard['bilbɔ:d]n. 广告牌;布告板

habitat['hæbitæt]n. 栖息地，产地

artificially[ˌa:ti'fi∫əli]adv. 人工地;人为地;不自然地

reintroduce['ri:ˌintrə'dju:s]vt. 再引入;再提出;再介绍

anew[ə'nju:]adv. 重新;再

重点掌握

■ Murdoch moves about the city ...

move about是英语中一个固定搭配，相当于move around，它有“走来走去”的意思，比如：I can hear somebody moving about upstairs. 我听见楼上有人来回走动。另外，move about还有“经常搬家;经常更换工作地点”的意思，比如： Salesmen are constantly moving around from one town to another. 推销员经常从一个城镇换到另一个城镇去推销。

Alex Proyas Interviewed by Blake

What can you say about Dark City Director's Cut DVD?

(Laughs)It will come out one day! It has been just silly. Part of what happened initially was that Roger Ebert, who did a commentary for the new version, spilled the beans at a very early stage, way before we even started. I think I showed him a couple of rough cuts of it that were floating around and we had a window of opportunity with him to do a voice over. He then of course proclaimed that this director's cut was coming out, which was great and I'm very grateful that he has been so supportive of the film over the years, but it let the cat out of the bag and from that point forward all my life was made a living hell because people would constantly ask me what's going on. I even had one guy come on my website and abuse me because he promised someone a Christmas present and he didn't know what to get them and it was all my fault. Even though I don't think I deserved that abuse, I do think some people are very passionate about films and I took that as a positive.

It's all done and everything is finished. It has a bunch of different programs we put together. The film itself is about 15 to 16 minutes longer than the original theatrical cut.

What is the biggest difference between it and the original?

The general pace of the movie is quite different. The director's cut more or less is the version I had originally sent out when I was first testing the movie. We had problems in testing and it's why the studio had us add in the voice overs, which I thought was rubbish really! My instinct then was when something wasn't playing right to speed it up and I've never been happy with that, so this version is back to a more leisurely and thoughtful pace it was meant to be. The voice over from the beginning is gone of course. There is also a few scenes added back that were ditched that I think are perfectly good scenes and I have no idea why we dropped them then. I'm really happy with it! You're allowed into the world more and you have more time with its characters. Literally almost every scene has another line of dialogue or stuff at the beginning or end. Some people may not notice a difference, but I think you should still feel a difference. I like it a lot more than the theatrical cut.

对于《移魂都市》导演剪辑版光碟，你想说些什么?

[笑]总有一天会和大家见面的!整件事让我们觉得自己很蠢。事情的一开始是罗杰·埃伯特为新版本做了评论，在非常早期的阶段、在我们开始之前，泄露了秘密。我以为我向他展示我对举棋不定的几处做了粗糙的删减，我们和他有了一次制作声音的机会。然后，当然，他宣称，导演的剪辑出来了。这很好，我很感激，多年来他一直很支持这部电影，但这次泄漏了秘密，并从那时开始，我的生活就变成了一个活地狱，因为人们会不停地问我这是怎么了。甚至有一个人来我的网站，责骂我，因为他答应了别人用此做圣诞礼物，他不知道该怎么答复他们，这都是我的错，尽管我不觉得我活该挨骂，我确实认为一些人非常热爱电影，我认为这是积极的。

光碟都做完了，全部都完成了。它有很多不同的程序，我们要组合放在一起。这部电影本身比原来的影院版剪辑要多出约15～16分钟的时长。

它和原来的剪辑之间最大的区别是什么?

电影的节奏很不同。导演剪辑版或多或少是我第一次检查电影时寄出的最初的版本。我们在测试中有些问题，正因如此工作室让我们添加语音旁白，我认为它们是垃圾!然后我的直觉是欲速则不达，想到这点我尤其高兴。所以这个返工的版本的节奏更悠闲、更周到，也正是它的本色。从一开始就没有旁白是理所当然的。还有几个删掉的场景添加了回来，我觉得是很好的场景，我不知道为什么当初我们把它们删掉了。我真开心!你得以进入更多的世界，你还有更多的时间与人物在一起。几乎每场戏的开头或结尾都有对话的另外一句台词或东西。有些人可能没有注意到有区别，但我觉得你应该还是会觉得有区别。与原来的影院版相比，我更喜欢现在这部电影。

医院的广播喇叭队里找的人是Dr. Benway和Mr. Lee。这些是William S. Burroughs的小说《裸体午餐》中的人物。许多影迷都喜欢在影片开头叙述时把声音关掉，直到基弗·萨瑟兰出现。

本片的许多布景，包括屋顶、房屋和一些外部布景都被1999年的《黑客帝国》再次利用。

本片故意制造了很多年代错误以使观众对故事发生的时间感到迷惑。

Mr. Hand这个角色是编剧亚历克斯·普罗亚斯特意为Richard O'Brien而写的。