The Matrix films echo the choice of the west's affluent majority, who prefer the virtual reality shown by the mass media to the true reality of suffering and evil.
The movies The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded provide a sardonic and uncomfortable commentary on the way the world is ruled. Both movies are concerned with how the affluent majority colludes with the media to sustain an unreal view of the world, and they suggest that the view of things propagated b...
| Published in: | New Statesman Vol. 132; pp. 23 - 26 |
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New Statesman Ltd.
June 23 2003
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| Summary: | The movies The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded provide a sardonic and uncomfortable commentary on the way the world is ruled. Both movies are concerned with how the affluent majority colludes with the media to sustain an unreal view of the world, and they suggest that the view of things propagated by the media cannot be other than unreal. They present amazing feats of technical wizardry, but if they contain a message, it is that technology is not magic because it cannot alter the facts of human life. |
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