[lit-ideas] Re: Decisions, decisions

  • From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 07:36:51 +0100

Sunday, October 24, 2004, 7:11:59 AM, Eric Yost wrote:

RP>> Yes, of course. I was confusing his decision to 'go back' with his
EY> taking a blue
RP>> pill. (I'm not sure how he returns to the Matrix.)

EY> I'm not sure either.

EY> _______

EY> He didn't go back. He was killed in an attempt to take over the 
EY> hovercraft and sabotage our heroes, then in the Matrix, from outside.


But he met the Agent in the Matrix.

EY> It always bothered me that -- like so many issues accessed by pop 
EY> culture -- the real problem in the Matrix was never addressed.

EY> Neo becomes the Uebermensch of the Matrix. Big deal. Meanwhile countless
EY> millions remain imprisoned in their gel-pack sleep pods. At the end of
EY> Matrix 1, Neo, at most, gets control of the propaganda arm of the state.

EY> The real instrument of oppression continues without a hitch. No
EY> raiding parties to destroy the sleep pods, folks, just a lot of
EY> flying around and fancy talk. So much like the Sixties.

You think destroying the pods would have brought the end of
oppression?!

-- the ending simply didn't make sense to me


-- 
 Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK   
mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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