The Mark(ings) of Zorro

The Mark(ings) of Zorro

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
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Saturday, May 24, 2003

by El Zorro Viejo (aka; Jim)

The Matrix
My son and I went to see the Matrix on Thursday last. While I have yet to come to grips with my thoughts on some of the themes running through the movie, I can say that, visually, the Matrix Reloaded lives up to its hype. God! Talk about eye candy! The special effects and the action scenes are so cool...I may have to buy another ticket to see all that on the big screen one more time. I can also see that over the next year I am going to have to buy a DVD player so that I can buy the boxed sets of both the Matrix and LOTR when they become available.

As for the more cerebral aspects of the movie, let me say that they are keeping me thinking. My only problem with the underlying assumptions of the world of the Matrix is that I think that humans require more energy to maintain than they produce. In other words, the huge human power plants we saw when Neo was "awakened" in the first movie would require more energy to maintain them than their occupants could produce. On the other hand, I could be wrong about that, and we are, in fact, essentially wet cell batteries in some AI (ok, ok...jargon...artificial intelligence) dominated future.

Hmmm, I see Terminator 3 is also coming out this summer. Between the Matrix and the Terminator, the machine is truly being demonized this year, eh?

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