LOL - wow. I finally decided to get around to reading
the 294 entries on the board that I haven't read.
This being one of them (almost a year later).

Dan, that is the most in depth critique of the Matrix
that I've ever heard. Good job! <cheers>

Alright, only 293 left to go...

--- Dan Pinal <danp--massmedia.com> wrote:

> I am undoubtedly quite alone in being pleased with
> the entire
> series. Before seeing the 3rd again, I decided to
> watch the first two on
> DVD to get the story. It really makes sense to me
> now. Before I was
> disappointed with the big Smith fight, but I see
> it's place, there really
> didn't need to be a big fight scene but they
> probably figured audiences
> would really be pissed if there wasn't some action
> at the end.
>
> While it certainly creates more questions than it
> answers, it is still a
> revelation in that you at least now know the
> questions to ask. The story
> itself is complete. We can understand how there was
> a One in the first
> place to leave a prophecy and that Neo is a creation
> of the human and
> machine worlds, etc.
>
> Jungians explain enduring myths as a tale of human
> consciousness that each
> society embraces. Our current enduring myth is the
> Arthurian
> legends. Stories that began in paganism such as
> Gawain and the Green Night
> but have been overwhelmed into Christian themes by
> encompassing them all
> with The Grail and The Fisher King. These themes
> show a society's
> consciousness painfully embracing Christian concepts
> and eventually healing
> itself. We will either accomplish this or kill
> ourselves in the
> process. We are at the end of this age. We are
> looking for a new myth.
>
> Maybe I'll live long enough to see a new mythos,
> maybe not. I think a lot
> of us in some way had some sort of hope in Star
> Wars. But then Lucas shot
> it in the foot with Return of the Jedi, then shot it
> in the face with the
> prequels. I don't think The Matrix is it, but I
> think we're getting closer.
>
> DanP
> Quantum Mechanics: The dream stuff is made of.
>
>
>
>
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