Sent my way by Brian Stokle on Twitter.
I have to say that “Dark City” isn’t a movie I’m familiar with, although it had a pretty good cast – Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Ian Richardson and William Hurt. Let’s see: dystopian future… things aren’t what they seem… memory loss… framed for a crime he didn’t commit… the movie certainly ticks all the “1990s sci-fi movie” boxes, that’s for sure.
Needless to say, “Shell Beach” is integral to the plot – why else the lingering close-up on its subway stop? The map itself is pretty nicely realised for a movie prop that’s only seen for a short time, although there does seem to be a ridiculously large number of routes, all tangled up together. The close-up, however, does give away the fact that the map is an inkjet print on a fairly coarse quality setting, including some less than optimal banding.
Based on this map and the end of the movie, where John Murdoch meets Emma (now Anna) on that long walkway extending out into the water, it’s obvious that that walkway is where East Point must be and that when Anna pointed to her left, she was correctly pointing at Shell Beach. So, since the subway map shows local stops at both locations, that would be the easiest way for the two of them to get there.