Monday, May 19, 2003

Saw the Matrix again. We've so sterilized the concepts of faith, hope, and love that it is at first a shock to see those as the main themes of a movie full of violence.

After a short reflection though, I kind of think that this is a problem with how we have shrunk faith hope and love down to something which can only happen in the pristine white expanse of abstract heaven. Maybe the Matrix doesn't cheapen or weaken these things by surrounding them with violence, death and betrayal, maybe instead it strengthens them by showing their power even in the face of a world more ugly than any we will ever face.
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