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<<< The philosophical importance of The Matrix manifests in its slick aesthetics. It is a film about the prospects of thinking technology, prospects fully metaphysical and ontological in nature, but they are prospects that are thinkable only because of recent shifts in the relationship between subjectivity and technology, and subjectivity and media, and as such The Matrix does an exceptional job of putting those issues into play.>>> No this is wrong. The importance derives from the importance of the ideas - how they are expressed is secondary. In fact the *way* they are expressed probably accounts for some of the widespread critical disdain - it seems too obvious, slick, and ultimately superficial. <<<Asking for "genuine philosophical enquiry" is like asking a dozen economists to agree on the truest economic theory -- reductive, and to be honest, not particularly useful>>> I disagree. Its not reductive at all: *enquiry* means a divergent opening-up, not an intellectual closure. <<<What interests me is *why* _The Matrix_ seems so innovative, philosophical, contemporary or explicit, when in many regards it's just another action film. Few claims made of its innovation or originality can be adequately supported, so why *don't* we seem to see that? ....I wonder why we're so short sighted as to see it as special. >>> I'm not convinced it was *special*. But it did have some philosphical merit and dismissing this is, in my opinion, probably more indicative of intellectual fashion than anything else. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com