Re: OT: art and language and THE DAVINCI CODE

Quoting Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:

> Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > The Matrix may very possibly have the worst plot of any movie I've
> seen.
>
> Actually, if you believe, as I do, that the "battery" bit was merely
> Morpheus' propaganda, then it's not that bad.  I suspect that the
> machines' basic programming includes a desire to take care of
> humanity.
> The Matrix was set up to preserve humanity from itself.  Morpheus
> himself said that it was humans who "scorched the sky".  So, based on
> this premise, I've hypothesized that the original war was between
> pro-machine humans and anti-machine humans, and that in the process,
> the
> world was ruined.  The machines, in a desperate attempt to preserve
> humanity, set up the Matrix, plugging in their allies.  Morpheus group
> are terrorists determined to destroy the very system that preserves
> the
> human race.
I'm not quite ready to believe in this amount of intricacy from a major
commercial movie, but if that's how it turns out, it still stinks. Neo's
supposed to have brain, and don't tell me he's just "playing along" - we'll
end up at the entire thing being a play within the movie, a play which is
quite as bad as the movie's plot is if Morpheus is right.

                                                          Andreas