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Not About Religion/It's Sci Fi - Virtual Reality
I never got caught up in religion while watching "Matrix: Reloaded." I understand that there is prophecy, but that doesn't necessarily mean god or Catholicism at all. I looked at the movie as the tension between determinism (technological electronic, machines operating on cause and effect) and free-will and freedom (human creative thought and imagination). I also saw the battle between the multitude of diverse, dynamic capacity of the human and machine mind to undertake war and to fight in cyberspace as well as in physical reality. Each action seen promotes the idea of the the possibilities of virtual reality - something that is in sci fi terms - not fantasy - but feasible someday in the future. It is fascinating to see how fighting might occur, even as today, battles are being fought on the basis of cruise missiles, guided radar systems, soldiers are now possessed of advance communication and laser pointers. No, the Matrix: Reloaded captures both in spirit and vision the action and the principles that grip today's society and globle between humanity and technology, blending the uneasy blend together because just like oil and water they really must and do exist in our world and we must somehow come to appreciate it, adapt to it, or it may control us.
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