From: Omixochitl2002@yahoo.com   
      
   "[Scion]"  wrote in   
   news:Xns94DB7C423CACEscion238phreakernet@216.168.3.50:   
      
   > Does Susannah  listen to pop music because he's   
   > depressed, or is he depressed because he listens to pop music?   
   >   
   >> I posted a while ago about a paper I was working on.  The thesis   
   >> morphed a bit and I'm not sure if the paper is where I like it; I'll   
   >> proabably do a few more revisions, but I think this draft is pretty   
   >> representative of where I want to go with it.   
   >   
   > I thought it was very good, but I do have one comment: in narrowing   
   > your description of The Matrix to a purely technological/sociological   
   > one, you misinterpret a few things. Hinduism plays a huge part in the   
   > Matrix trilogy, and it explains the character's "elitist" attitude   
   > more sympathetically than you did. An individual's karma is   
   > responsible for what happens to him in this life; in other words, it   
   > is the lobby guard's purpose to be killed by Neo's bullets, just as it   
   > is Neo's purpose to bring a temporary truce about in the war.   
      
   And don't forget the Greco-Roman stuff.  The Wachowskis seem to be really   
   into all this symbolism out of classics class; do you think they put in a   
   blind-guy-with-iffy-parentage-and-dead-older-woman-he-loved scene on   
   purpose...?   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   * Yes, apparently these days eggs from immature ovaries can be fertilized   
   in the lab, so the Sophocles connection could still work even if Trinity   
   looks like she was a toddler when Neo was hatched   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)