Sway aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/¿Quién_será%3F

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iaBJ-I0YyY
Norman Gimbel did the English lyrics: This Mr Gimbel has form imho …

“Killing Me Softly with His Song” is a song composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel. The lyrics were written in collaboration with Lori Lieberman after she was inspired by a Don McLean performance in late 1971. Denied writing credit by Fox and Gimbel, Lieberman released her version of the song in 1972, but it did not chart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Me_Softly_with_His_Song

In 1971, Gimbel and Fox signed 19-year-old singer-songwriter Lori Lieberman to a management contract, taking 20% of her income—double the usual amount. Aged 44 years, Gimbel began an extra-marital affair with Lieberman which would last several years.[6] Gimbel said that he relied on Lieberman to inspire his songwriting creativity since he had passed the most creative days of his youth: “Now I need a reason to write, and Lori is one of the best reasons a lyric writer could have.”[7] Lieberman was inspired by a performance of Don McLean to write some lyrics for a song; she shared these with Gimbel who fleshed out the lyrics while Fox wrote the music. Lieberman, Gimbel and Fox collaborated on the song’s title, adapted from Gimbel’s notebook of ideas. The song became “Killing Me Softly with His Song”, which Lieberman recorded in 1972 in the folk style. Gimbel and Fox produced the song and took full writing credit, cutting Lieberman out of future profits.[6] Roberta Flack heard this version and remade the song in her own style in 1973, creating a hit. The song was very profitable for Gimbel, and won him his second Grammy Award for Song of the Year.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Gimbel

When JC sings this song near the beginning of the film, a raft of associations appears for me: And anyone else who knows the same stuff. Was that accidental/intentional by Proyas? I wonder …

https://archive.org/details/dark-city-1998

The doctor plays a pivotal role in Dark City, with the same name as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Paul_Schreber

Also a name used In Empire of the Senseless by Kathy Acker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Acker

Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947^[2] [disputed] – November 30, 1997) an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality and rebellion. She was influenced by the Black Mountain School poets, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, Carolee Schneeman, Eleanor Antin, French critical theory, mysticism, and pornography,^[3] as well as classic literature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mountain_College

In 1933, the Nazis shut down the Bauhaus in Germany, a similarly progressive arts-based educational institution. Many of the school’s faculty left Europe for the US, and a number of them settled at Black Mountain, most notably Josef Albers, who was selected to run the art program, and his wife Anni Albers, who taught weaving and textile design.^[12]

Many of the college’s faculty and students were or would go on to become highly influential in the arts, including Josef and Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Merce Cunningham, Max Dehn, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, Ray Johnson, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Charles Olson, Robert Rauschenberg, Mary Caroline Richards, Dorothea Rockburne, Michael Rumaker, Aaron Siskind and Cy Twombly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Andrew_Rice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Chicago_Laboratory_Schools_people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Matthias_Alexander

In 1916, the American philosopher and educational pioneer John Dewey became a pupil. Dewey had long suffered from stress-related health issues, and these had become acute in the wake of a series of personal and professional difficulties. His series of lessons resulted in long-lasting physical and intellectual improvements; more than 25 years later, in his eighties, Dewey attributed 90% of his good health to Alexander’s techniques.^[52] Dewey and Alexander met frequently in the years that followed, and the writings of both show the influence of the interactions. In addition, Dewey’s promotion of the technique led to other prominent academics to enroll themselves and their families. Dewey also encouraged Alexander to bring out an American edition of Man’s Supreme Inheritance.^[53] With the help of Irene Tasker, he extensively revised the text and included new chapters on addictions, obsessive behaviours, and on the causes of the First World War, which he laid firmly at the door of Germany as a country of that has “progressed but little on the upward evolutionary stage from the state occupied by the brute beast and the savage.” The book, with an introduction by Dewey, appeared in January 1918, and received enthusiastic reviews, many written by Alexander’s distinguished pupils. However, former pupil Randolph Bourne, writing in The New Republic, while recognising the practical benefit of the technique, criticised Alexander’s belief in the evolution of human society towards conscious control, a complaint echoed by the historian James Harvey Robinson in an Atlantic Monthly review.^[54] Dewey was so incensed by Bourne’s review that he threatened never to contribute to the New Republic again if they published any further articles by Bourne.^[55]