Id like to introduce you to a little movie called Dark City. This was a (get ready for it) SciFi Neo-Noir Thriller by director Alex Proyas of The Crow fame. Now if you grow up in the 90's you probably remember trailers for some sort of horror film with a bunch of bald pasty Orlocks and some guy strapped on a machine. Well this film's marketing campaign couldn't have steered you in a more obtuse direction.
The film takes place in a nameless city in an unidentifiable time (a semblance of early 20th century culture) with a protagonist waking up to a crime scene. He is then pursued by these Orlocks who contain bizarre telepathic abilities. You can probably guess why this film didn't reach much of an audience...
What the film ultimately amounts to is a rather profound premise. A little sliver of humanity was picked up and relocated to a city in the stars where a race of extraterrestrial beings frantically search for the soul. Through their abilities they warp reality, distort existence, change memories. They violate the very thing they seek after, completely unaware of what makes us human.
Ironically their search for meaning is what provides the downfall for these inquisitive beings. It is only by the end that they realize how they might've been searching in the wrong place. The soul is not some variable in an experiment, the soul is something much more existential. Love, hate, sadness, happiness, these are things you cannot look at under a microscope and hope to publish in a textbook. And all it takes is a Human to prove it.
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