Thursday, November 06, 2003


I saw the Matrix Revolutions yesterday and I'll be one of the few people you'll hear say that they enjoyed it. It was anti climatic, especially after the original movie. It didn't do a good job capitalizing on some of the theories that the architect put forth in the second movie, and there was some major cheese in this in terms of lines and endings. This movie was much less cerebral than the first and second, much more action oriented that thought provoking. What I loved was the climactic battle throughout the movie. There's a battle going on that looks uninvolved - a small group of humans against overwhelming odds, continually getting the crap kicked out of them by the machines. It looks like it's just a matter of time until they're destroyed. While all this is going on, there's a small group that has hope, faith that Neo, the messiah, the One will come through in the end. It's this hope that keeps many of them fighting, and without this hope some trudge through the battle - and despair. Pretty good metaphor for the world we live in, battling evil against an unbeatable enemies - death and sin. Without a messiah, it's hopeless.

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