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In the first Matrix movie, the two major female roles are Trinity and The Oracle. Now I’m sure there are thousands of possible dissertation topics within this area of gender and Neo. But I’ll ignore those serious discussions of significance for a little playtime here…
Who wouldn’t want to be Trinity? She can hack. She [...]

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The other day Ted went out shopping and picked up a copy of The Matrix Revisited at Best Buy. For $10, it’s like a movie date. So Sunday night, we watched the DVD.
Yeah, we’re behind the times: I think Revisited has been out now for at least a couple years. But it [...]

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…has an end! Ted and I got out this afternoon to see the final Matrix movie, Revolutions. The theater had only a handful of folks, as to be expected on this island in the middle of the day. Wonder who made it to the 6 AM show?!
Hype aside - and not even Ghandi (the move [...]

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On my desk are a pair of tickets to “Matrix: Revolutions” on Wednesday. It’s not that we HAVE to see this on opening day, but it works out well, since we’re on vacation-of-sorts this week, and it’s cheaper - less crowded too - to see it midday midweek. Wednesday’s the best day this week for [...]

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Exploring the Matrix: Visions of the Cyber Present is the book I spied in the bookstore window those many months ago, the book that began my Matrix reading kick at the library. This is the third one I have read/skimmed and definitely the most FUN! The other two I’ve reviewed [...]

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Ads in the paper proclaim that Matrix Reloaded DVD will be for sale at 12:01 am tomorrow, October 14. Ted actually will be on the “other side” of the Sound tonight, coming home from the airport late, and I joked with him that he should just stay over there another hour or so and head [...]

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No, I’m not really a Matrix aficionado (maybe I’m married to one ) but one July afternoon I decided to do a search in our

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From “Finding God in the Matrix”, an essay by Paul Fontana, in Taking the Red Pill: Science Philosophy and Religion in the Matrix
The instant cult status of The Matrix, is, I believe, due to the subtext of exile, restoration and the fulfillment of eschatological hope, which in a roundabout way, speaks to its [...]

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Watching the movie The Matrix , I always start to laugh at the scene where Neo is being reprimanded in his boss’ office and the window washers working in the background streak squeaky squeegees on the skyscraper glass. I think it is probably the absurdity and humor in the situation, a joke about [...]

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