KMO wrote:
>The protagonist in The Matrix is offered two pills. If he takes the blue
pill,
>then he'll wake up in his bed and be able to believe the deception that we
take
>to be reality. If he takes the red pill, then he will see the unpleasant
truth
>about world. He takes the red pill.
Being myself, I would take the red pill too, but if I were conditioned in that first, imaginary world, I might choose to continue living with the security of that instead.
>> Being
>> as out of touch with pop culture as I am, I'm the last to know these
>> things.
>
>Out of touch with pop culture? Snob! Snob! (But you make good cookies,
Cookie.)
Gracias, but that's KOLACE! Oi! Don't be dissin' my Bohemian heritage, bro. ;-)
>This one might just be worth your time, although you'll miss a lot of the
>references and homages in the film if you're as out of touch as you claim.
I am out of touch, but not so much that I won't get the references. I'm not claiming that my taste is *above* anyone else's here, it's just that so many of those references are related to television and mainstream music [which I have little or no exposure to] in our media-fixated culture that some of those refs to the aforementioned subjects will go right over my head. Instead I get some weird, filtered version of pop culture through the Internet.
As for the Matrix, I'm _really_ picky about what I see in a movie theater, so I can wait and be the last person to see it. (Last disappointment: 8MM. Talk about unrealistic; don't make me go off on a tangent about *real* bondage perverts here. Uggh.)
~kjs
ps: Plus, I did my research and read a few articles/reviews for The Matrix. Well, of course they recounted the entire movie, so it's like I've pretty much seen it already. I hate it when they do that!