The MATRIX
Please leave thoughts about The Matrix here. If you post your tentative thesis or outline, I will give you my reaction/advice about it.
Please leave thoughts about The Matrix here. If you post your tentative thesis or outline, I will give you my reaction/advice about it.
November 2nd, 2008 at 6:49 pm
I will be out of the state for this week therefore I am taking a pass. I will however bring to class, next week, my review of an outside film.
Thanks~
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
The way the Matrix blends ideas from different religions, philosophy and mathmatics makes for an entertaining and challenging film that invites us to question our reality and motives. It is worthy to note the film’s cultural impact especially in the context of movie making as well.
November 4th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
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i found this online and I thought it was pretty freaky, in the early interrogation scene with agent smith, it shows that neo’s passport expires 9-11-01. This movie was made in 1999, is this just a freaky coincidence or did the wachkoskis know something that we didn’t?
November 6th, 2008 at 10:41 am
in chicago, checking in on my classmates, but i saw the comment above and thought I would respond. Before 9/11/01 the date numerically, for every september 11th of every year was always a big deal. same with june, 6th, 1966.(6/6/66) the numerology was significant before the attack on the WTC. So keeping that in mind, I think we can say these directors knew nothing more than the emergency significance of 911.
November 10th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
I’m using my second pass for the Matrix paper.
November 10th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
I’m using my pass for the Matrix. I like this film. It hits that nerve that I believe everyone has. Everyone at some point gets that feeling that everything is fake. That there is someone watching you. Or like the world revolves around you. A lot like The Truman Show. I think that might be a good movie for this class.
November 10th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
I am using my last pass for this review.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
I was also considering to pass on this film BUT I will try to attempt to argue: What is real? The Matrix is a true example of how man must make an effort to overcome ignorance to arrive at realization. We are continually in the process of becoming, always changing….this is a Buddhist thought. We must liberate ourselves from becoming slaves to technology and wake up BUT better yet!!! The real enemy is, in fact, our own ignorance. we must escape the world of illusion by freeing our minds and discover our true path,like Neo with the help of his teacher Morpheus. In this Buddhist sense, Neo is the redeemer much like the Bodhisattva or Maietrya (future Buddha to return). A Buddha who is reborn and reborn again many times in many forms and sacrifices oneslef for the sake of others…bringing them to the light of realization/enlightenment or reality/truth. This is such a complex movie to write about that I fear that I may not have argued my points well but I am willing to give it a shot. No matter how many times I watch this film, just when I think I know what its really suggesting…I still don’t know the entire message.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
I will not be turning a review on this film.
November 13th, 2008 at 12:25 am
Hi, everyone i dont really have alot to say, i never saw the Matrix until today. I found it to be interesting, it actually made me look at things with a different view. If you think about it we are actually living in a world that could be make believe and controlled by machines.