This is a movie about race

Rating: 10/10 (9 November 2003)

I didn't go into the theater with high expectation, but in the end I found myself fascinated by the complexity of racial, sexual, and cultural politics in this movie, not to mention the best "space-ship-battle" since the Star Wars. Two ultimate white guys (Neo as Christ and Smith as Satan) have to neutralize each other in order to save the Zion, the haven for the colored people as well as those who are "computer programs", Oracle, her Chinese bodyguard, and that lovely Indian girl. Although Neo is the One, he couldn't have done it without the help of Trinity, and Zion couldn't have been saved without soldier-like men and women in rank and file. Machine is not the enemy of humanity. It is the Agent Smith (conservative white hegemony) whose existence serves only to destroy both human and machine world. Neo (liberal white) exists only to cancel out his counterpart, Smith. Both Neo and Smith are nothing but our dream of good vs. evil, whereas the real heroes are every one of those (black, white, and AI) who know what the word love means.