… one movie at a time.

Well, not just movies. Michael is also recommending science fiction books to her, and in the past month she’s read two John Scalzi books, and just started either Spin or Accelerando .

But last night, we watch The Matrix and she said it was okay, and she wouldn’t mind seeing the two sequels. Considering how violent The Matrix is, I figured that was pretty impressive. (Mind you, she chose to watch The Matrix over Chicago.)
However, she didn’t much care for X-Men, though I wonder if she would like it better watching it a second time, since things would make more sense.

She and Michael are also watching Star Trek: Voyager while I hide in the basement, because there are some limits to my geekatude.

Next up–we’re going to see if we can get her to watch Buffy.

Yeah, I forgot to warn you, The Matrix: Revolutions was playing at the Mountainlair this weekend, so Michael and I went last night.
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Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix Glenn Yeffeth ed

We’re not going to discuss my somewhat obsessive interest in The Matrix. Let’s just say it’s one of those things and move along.

Obviously, this book is not of interest to you if you did not like The Matrix or are not interested in the ideas behind The Matrix.

But, if you are like me and fascinated with religion, philosophy and science, then this is a book you may want to read. Which is probably why The Matrix fascinates me so much, becuase it addresses subjects in which I am deeply interested.

But we said we weren’t going to talk about that.

Read More about Taking the Red Pill

(Originally posted 12 December 2003)

Now that the semester is over and I actually have time to do things like go to the movies and talk endlessly, ‘Matrix: Revolutions’ has moved on and I’ll probably have to wait until it comes out on DVD to see it again. Which is frustrating, because there were things that I did want to see again.
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(Orig posted 2003)

I read a very interesting piece at Matrix Essays that relates the shorts from the “Animatrix” “Second Renaissance I & II” (SR I & II) to the Matrix movies. I did not like SR I & II, because they are ultra violent, and it bothers me to watch such, so I really didn’t think a lot about them at first (mostly because I was trying to forget the violent scenes I did watch, so I could sleep peacefully).
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Murder and “The Matrix”, and Article on FindLaw by Julie Hilden, looks at the issue of movies, violence and crime.
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I found a nice blog on The Matrix at A Little Bit of Nowhere. (It’s Blogger, so of course the permalinks don’t work. Scroll down to Friday, May 23, 2003, and it’s there.

Just so I’ll have them at hand, here is a relisting of the interesting Matrix sites:
Goliath by Neil Gaiman
Philosophy & The Matrix
Gnosis and The Matrix
Matrix Essays
Forget sci-fi and guns - The Matrix is really about religion BBC article
Essay on The Matrix by Mike Athreton
Screenplay for The Matrix

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I just read a fantastic essay on “The Matrix Reloaded” on Freedom, Determinism, Teleology and Foreknowledge in Matrix: Reloaded
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(Originally written Dec 14 2004)

It’s Christmas break, which means travel. Here are some thoughts on the Matrix movies that staved off the boredom of the road.
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Greg posted the following comment/question, which I quite like and want to address.

2) The Oracle is outside of time. She tells Neo that he is seeing things outside of time. The point is, like the famous question, if God is omniscient and knows what we will do before we do it, how can we have free choice, Neo struggles to understand how anything he does is his own choice. The Oracle is pointing out to him that in the view where there is no time, we have already made the choice (in Neo’s future). The important part is to understand why we made that choice, so that our lives are directed and we aren’t simply reacting to things around us.

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Well, we saw it, and it didn’t suck. I was quite pleased with how things turned out, but I’m not yet sure how I feel about the movie as a whole.
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(orig posted 11 Nov 2003)

More blathering about the Matrix, specifically, fighting in the Real World and Persephone. (And whoo! What a dress! Only in the Matrix could you wear that still be able to move.)
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I was listening to an interesting segement of the Infinite Mind this evening, on alcoholism, and it brought to mind something that stuck out for me in the first movie, which is the “alcoholic bum” whose body is taken over by Agent Smith in the subway station.
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Weighing in on the Matrix

Everyone is blogging about “The Matrix: Reloaded” They hate it, they love it. It was great, it was terrible. Do I have anything new to add? Nope. But there were some things that gave me pause for thought, so I’m gonna write about ‘em.
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Okay, I know the Japanese are weird, but really…..

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In all the hoopla over the summer before the release of ‘Matrix: Reloaded’ one of the things Keanu Reeves was quoted as saying was that ‘The Matrix’ was really a love story, which struck me as hokey at the time, and ridiculous after seeing ‘Reloaded’
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As I was thinking about the architect’s speech, I was reminded of a famous passage:

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Genesis 2:15-17

Followed by:

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Genesis 3:4-7

(Both passages are from KJV, which is the version most readily available on-line)
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I’ve been mostly silent on the “How will ‘The Matrix: Revolutions’ end” front, because to be honest I don’t want to know beforehand. I want to go into the movie and have everything be a big surprise, and not have to sit there and be disappointed that things didn’t work out the way I thought they would.
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(Orig. posted 20 Nov 2003)

Old Oligarch has posted a review of Matrix: Revolutions from a rather more theological perspective.

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I just read a fantastic essay on “The Matrix Reloaded” on Freedom, Determinism, Teleology and Foreknowledge in Matrix: Reloaded
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Erin came over for dinner tonight, and after dinner we watched The Matrix: Reloaded, and I got to check out some things that had been nagging at my mind.
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Now that I’ve slept on it, I have some further thoughts on Matrix Revolutions.
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