Re: The Matrix (was: Re: Fight Club)

[Julio Pino <jpino@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:45 PM 7/9/00 -0500, you wrote:
Saul: it's also of great significance that the protagonist of The Matrix is
not the (typically) clueless Keenau Reeves but an African-American, the
commander of the rebels played by Lawrence Fishburn.It is among the
oppressed racial and ethnic minorities that the first skeptics of
machine-manufactured "reality" are to be found. In the film the security
police(holographs created by the Matrix) refer to Fishburn as "the
arch-terrorist." Sound familiar?
Likewise, can it be coincidental that the security goons are lily-white and
sport corporation ties and shirts? Nyet! the machines patterned them after
the last humans they had contact with, the capitalists who used to rule the
world.

BTW, the Warchowski brothers, who directed and wrote the film, also made
"Bound", a terrific thriller set in the world of the Mafia, but with women
on top. Rent it today.
Julio Cesar
>I don't have any inside information on the political proclivities of the
>makers of "The Matrix", but I sort of suspect that at least someone
>involved in the film has some sort of political consciousness. I did notice
>that one of the characters in the film was played by Marcus Chong, the
>actor who played Huey Newton in the movie "Panther". Admittedly, that
>doesn't mean much. But it's also interesting to note that the last song
>heard in "The Matrix" is "Wake Up" by the radical band Rage Against the
>Machine. The song begins at the very end of the movie, and plays through
>the credits. I doubt that many people sit through and listen to the lyrics,
>but they are pretty radical for the average movie: