> I watched Dark City for the first time on video a few weeks ago, and noticed something after I saw it. The same thing happened after watching 12 Monkeys tonight. Both of them are rather long movies that involve a lot of changes in the overall feel throughout the movie, and when the movie was over the earlier parts were harder to remember and seemed somehow distant, so I end up having to watch the movie twice. This happen to anyone else?

Well, both of those movies are constructed so that you more or less jump into a story that's already started. So you spend a fair amount of trying to figure out what's going on as both movies have their own world and their own logic. Once you get used to the rules of the game you begin to actually watch the movie. Of course by this time the movie is half over.

I also think both were made for multiple viewings and that the creators put things in there that would only make sense after you'd watched it already -- they make sense within the context of the movie and plot, but until you know the entire story they won't. 12 Monkeys is very much this way, simply because it deals so heavily with time travel and with the idea of things repeating. The whole movie is sort of circular, and you'll pick up on things the second time you watch it.

Anyway, yeah, I guess I have had that happen to me :P

Sn

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