The first half of the setup is pretty good. Dark city is very metaphorical of capital. Aliens stole people's memories to create cities. All people are regarded as living materials to maintain aliens' survival. All memories and cities are injected and experimented to disrupt and reorganize. of. Only the male protagonist cannot be injected with memory, which poses a threat to the existence of aliens. They must study what the unique soul and memory of people are, otherwise they will become extinct. This city forged by aliens can be moved according to their will, but this city can only be seen in the darkness of night. And seeing the light and finding the real memory becomes the code that the hero tries to crack. The male protagonist was originally in doubt, "it is meaningless to find memory, everything is fiction, a joke", which forms a contradictory tug-of-war of "original unique memory vs pseudo memory/no memory". Then the second half of the plot completely collapsed - the male protagonist fell in love with the female protagonist, looked for the source of memory, Shell Beach, broke the walls of the dark city and saw the reality of the outside world (the boundless universe), and finally obtained the psychiatrist. The super power defeated the alien leader, and finally the male and female protagonists went to their first encounter on the beach. This is down to an unimaginatively vulgar tale, and perhaps we should remain skeptical rather than desperately trying to give it a happy ending. The future of post-human beings requires bold imagination.
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