The world is hungry for
The world is hungry for answers to questions that have been asked for as long as humans can remember. And we are being given answers. Except they are coming from the mouths of computer-enhanced celebrity actors wearing black robes and latex catsuits.
Violence, disobedience, hacking, recklessness, bloodshed. People in exile, about to be invaded. A saviour, a promised one – and yet, he is only human. We could be in the Old Testament. or the future. or a movie.
We saw the Matrix last night. I went into the movie expecting certain things: more fight scenes, more digitally created visuals, more keanu, more hype. What I didn’t expect was keanu looking more and more like a cleric – dressed like a priest without the white collar. There is a serious religious undertone to this film.
And this feels like a paradox to me. because I understand the attraction, the desire to give this film a cult following by infusing it with the flavour of spirituality & the supernatural. Technology, developed to a high enough degree, has a supernatural element to it. how do you tell the gods in the machine what you want them to do if you don’t understand how the machine works? But when the spirituality is so predictable, so cliche – suddenly it is cheap.
The first Matrix felt more genuine, more real. there is no spoon! This time it is obvious – we are being sold a saviour. and he looks like superman.
