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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Neo! Matrix Reloaded is being released worldwide these next few days (it opens here in Ireland on May 23rd). Time has it as a cover story this week, and from what I read and the stills that you can see in the article, it appears that the new film will be heavily tilted towards action--and little else, something echoed in this slashdot thread regarding the first published review of the movie. If it's true, part of the story will be lost. However, we should remember that Matrix Revolutions is not far behind (November) and as the end of the trilogy that movie will have to be a bit (at least a bit) more "contemplative". The Lord of the Rings, for example, managed that well (keeping the third book still tense, but winding it down slowly, and with a major final battle to boot). Also: couple of days ago I read this article that talks about what The Matrix meant culturally when it was released in 1999--very good. In any case, let's not forget what the sage Morpheus told us once, as we were about to enter that fabled rabbit hole: No one can be told what The Matrix is--you have to see it for yourself.Categories: art.media Posted by diego on May 8 2003 at 5:47 PM Comments (please see the comments & trackback policy).
If you're looking for a little more "contemplative" Matrix action, I can really recommend the Animatrix (www.theanimatrix.com). Really well done anime, with great philosophical background stories. I particularly liked the Matriculation part. About Animatrix, 3 hours ago I saw the first one in the theater, before Dreamcatcher, and it really got me excited about Reloaded. Really good stuff, and can't wait to see the rest of them. I just hope they'll show them in theaters too. I'm on dialup, and don't think that the website will good enough for me. Posted by: Ricardo Reyes (again) at May 9, 2003 1:31 AMRicardo, I've heard about these short features, and I they're available online (somewhere...)... hopefully once I get DSL I'll be able to see them! Also, I read they will be released on a single DVD soon. :-) Posted by: Diego at May 9, 2003 10:43 AMThanks for the pointer to the cool Salon article. I'm there... The Animatrix is released on DVD on June 2nd (via cdwow.com). Posted by: Martin at May 9, 2003 3:05 PMDo you know why they call it reloaded? Do you know what is being Reloaded? Well, maybe there is an answer, maybe there is not. But it is the question we all ask? What if everything we believed in, is not exactly as it really is, how would that effect us if we were to continue, would our resolve change? Next is the Revolution, but whom will revolt? Why revolt? Or is to Re-volt, just that? To "re" Volt, to power up once again, as a computer does? We don't know. The Oracle? Does it know? Is the Oracle a complex dB program, system, network, or is it part of the Matrix? Might the Oracle been a competitor with the Big M? A Micro yet Soft world? But at some time the Matrix as it is call, absorbed the Oracle, making its system part of its own? And what is the matrix? Simply, a mathematical concept, no more, yet extended to the fullest of time, 1000 years not 100 as previously thought. Virus type endless loop programs, old outdated programs that some how avoid clean deletion, best of all layers of OS abstraction from the boot level to the GUI. All is a form that appear human. I am not alive, I am machine. Posted by: Steve at May 15, 2003 10:46 AMCopyright © Diego Doval 2002-2007.
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