Matrix, The ... shivering timbers!

Rating: 10/10 (8 February 2003)

This is a movie that people either adore or disregard totally... but I haven't found (though it is statisticley possible) someone who actually hates The Matrix. This, in itself, humours me since this movie IS about hating the matrix and alot of people around me agreed that if it was up to them, they'd probably take the blue pill. WIERD, MAN!
I, of course, think completely otherwise.
Yet, this movie, like many others, has what seems to be an anti-technocracy attitude. I disagree with that observation too, because this film is all about how bad choices can make things go wrong, and how good ones can make them better. Not because technology is bad, but because those who weild it has "the smell", and I too feel, sometimes, "saturated" by it. it is obnoxious and it is our greatest and foremost weakness as a specie. Yet the movies shows that there is a diffrence between knowing the path and walking on it.
As a determinist, I do not belive in free choice. I do agree that the illusion is mighty, and the movie depicts exactly that. What is important, after all, is to feel good about yourself and accept your fate. Don't mind the reality - stick to what you are and embrace what you consider is good and true in yourself and then, things would SEEM righter.
So THAT, in my part, is the greatness of this movie over thousnds of others. It holds such beautiful concepts, ideas and thought, in what seems to be a high-tech-action-stunts-cash-monger, and a good one too.
and yet It's not. It is most certainley not. There is a spoon!
end messege.
N.