Information for Parents

Dark City

Dark City

Common Sense Media Age 16

Parents Need To Know

Positive Messages
In its weird way the film affirms the human spirit and individuality ("the soul"), compared to the super-powered but stagnant and dying alien race that holds people captive here. Even though the hero is set up to think he's a Ripper-like murderer, he really isn't, and even villainous-seeming characters are secretly working toward the liberation of humanity.
Positive Role Models & Representations
Violence
Brief shots of bloody victims (female) of knife-killings, with spiral designs cut into flesh. Some of the zombie-like "strangers" get smashed/impaled, and one has the top of his head sheared off. Hypodermic needles plunged into foreheads.
Sex
Female nudity (topless and in profile) of a prostitute, bare-butt shot of the hero. Talk of an adulterous affair (which turns out not to have really happened).
Language
Not applicable
Consumerism
Not applicable
Education Value
Ease of Play
Privacy
Some cigarette smoking, social drinking as backdrop.
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