Severance Analysis: Technology, memory, identity, and mind control in Dark City.

An analysis of the Severance universe and its connections to DARK CITY. An exploration of memory and identity and their relation to the Self. In a world where technology exists to alter memory and dissociate identity, how can anyone be certain of his past or that his memories are authentic? If technology can change one's memory, what becomes of the Self? Have we been severed, and if so, by whom and for what reason? Come gaze once again into the black mirror.....