From: john grigg (starman125@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 12 1999 - 18:04:25 MDT
Greetings,
I saw "Matrix" the other night and totally loved it!! It was one of
the best science fiction films that I have ever seen. I was thrilled
by the anime style fighting sequences with the incredible leaping and
wall smashing punches and throws! Just think, when were all posthuman
we could have our own sparring tournament with the same powerful moves
as in the movie! Hmmm...what would be a good name for it?
As a boy who grew up without my father because he felt he had better
things to do; I loved the Obi-One Kenobi style relationship Morpheus
had with Neo. Morpheus believed in him and did is best to train him
for future challenges.
I have read the various criticisms listed in the digest. I think that
if the writers had taken everyone of them into consideration that the
movie would have lasted only five minutes with the A.I.'s winning
hands down!! For the sake of dramatic license and structure you have
to suspend the element of disbelief.
I believe that the reason the A.I.'s may have used humans as a power
source was to simply degrade their former masters. Couldn't even a
cybernetic intelligence be insane? the mind-boggling vista of
gigantic virus-like machines harvesting human infants from their
"fields" made the whole audience I saw the film with gasp!
The reason the A.I.'s may have built the matrix was because there was
some residual original programming in them to "oversee" the human
race. And so they did in their own twisted way.
This film could be seen on several different levels. One would be to
realize how even in the "mundane" world we assume we live in that our
culture has socialized or perhaps even programmed us to believe and
act in certain ways.
Well, these are just some of my thoughts inspired by the film and
digest comments about it. Take care everyone!
Sincerely,
John Grigg
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