Maybe that's the real amazement about the Matrix...that it managed to be fairly interesting intellectually and still made a blockbuster load of money. Only Total Recall and A.I. have done so in the last two decades or so. I must say that they beat Spiderman or Titanic for potential profundity, though they are admittedly more Sein und Zeitgeist than Sein und Zeit.
"For beauty is the beginning of terror that we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us." Rilke's First Elegy
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