This is a philosophically disabled country

Rating: Null/10 (20 May 1999)

This is a good movie, an enjoyable, clever, and visually interesting movie. Beyond that, it aspires to be philosophically engaging. Sci-fi really is the perfect genre to explore philosophy, because the rules of everyday life and experience can be suspended and the freshness of a situation can provide an excuse to explore inner as well as outer reality. This movie had the philosophical themes of reality as a construct of group consciousness, the role and fate of the initiates, the death and resurrection of the enlightened one, and the capacity of the enlightened one to transform evil from the inside out. I despair when reading all the "reviews" which are oblivious of anything but a "cool plot" or "great special effects". We live in the most philosophically moronic culture that has ever afflicted the face of the earth!