(Orig posted 2003)<\/p>\n
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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\nFirst, I think Neo did completely miss the point of his conversation with the Counselor Hamman in the engineering sector. Humans are dependent upon machines, and even though humans “control” the machines in Zion, they are still dependent upon them. There is a parallel between the human\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dependence upon the machines in Zion, and the machine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dependence upon humans in the Matrix.<\/p>\n
Now I still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t buy the batteries explanation\u00e2\u20ac\u201dviolations of the laws of physics and all that\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean that the machines do not need humans. I think they are necessary, but just not for the reasons stated by Morpheus in The Matrix. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see.<\/p>\n
But I think that Neo is going to have to come to terms with the fact that the machines and humans will have to coexist for either to survive.<\/p>\n
I still really like the fight scene with the Merovignian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s henchmen, and Neo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fight with Seraph. I think they were just beautiful. The freeway scene, however\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6ugh. I looked away on several occasions. Primarily when Trinity was weaving in and out of traffic on the motorcycle, and the fight scene on the back of the truck. (shudder) Too much too fast. Upsets my stomach even thinking about it. Which is really too bad, because I like watching Morpheus fight\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut not against that moving background.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still disappointed in the speech Morpheus gives in Zion. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think it was good enough to inspire the reaction it got. (All through that scene we kept making jokes about sneaker sex. Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember where I read it, but someone made a comment about Neo and Trinity looked like two sneakers mating.) He did do a good job giving the speech however.<\/p>\n
We watched the scene with the Architect again. Still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what he meant by the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Please\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in response to Neo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Oracle\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Could be anything. But what we did check, was that all of the scenes seem to be from inside the Matrix. We couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find any scenes that occurred in Zion or any of the training that occurred in the construct. Now we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look at every monitor closely, so we might have missed something, but it really looks like all the scenes on the monitor were of Neo in the Matrix, which is, I think, somewhat significant, and is hopefully a blow to that damned \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Matrix within a Matrix\u00e2\u20ac\u009d theory. After all, the Zion was a second Matrix, then there should have been scenes from outside the Matrix on the monitors, since many significant parts of Neo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life occurred there.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hoping it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s significant anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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