The Matrix [Media Notes 120]

I saw it when it came out, and perhaps I saw in again on some streaming service, of maybe I got it on Netflix back in the DVD days. Don’t know what I thought of it back then. But now (on Netflix)...YIKES!!

I’m thinking that The Matrix is mostly a pretext for a Sci-Fi urban martial arts computational tentacle-porn pseudo-mystical mashup. Really? I’m sure I didn’t take it seriously, for whatever meaning of “seriously” makes sense in this context. It’s all about the action and the tidbits of mystical-mumbo jumbo about belief and self. And ...