Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 17:00:30 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Matrix Reloaded
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

"What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others. " - Lucretius

>>> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 05/19/03 04:46PM >>>
	Interesting points of view.  Messrs Shirley and Benford certainly
see deeper meaning in "Tron meets Iron Monkey" than I did.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 3:13 PM
To: wsfalist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Matrix Reloaded

>From www.locusmag.com where full text appears, below are teasers:

Review
 05.18
John Shirley reviews The Matrix: Reloaded
Yes, Reloaded's philosophical dialectic is often pretentious, and the film =
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doesn't convince us that its authors fully understand their own ideas =
=AF =
but at least it's asking the questions. What makes the film worth =
watching, to me =AF what makes me glad it's doing boffo box office =AF =
is =
its willingness to ask real questions.

Commentary
05.19
Greg Benford: Why The Matrix Matters
[Science fiction] is, more than anything else, about change. Religions =
change, too, the writers remind us. We incorporate into our mind's eye of =
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God our current knowledge. This is inevitable, and fundamentally =
positive.