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Nov. 23rd, 2001 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheI watched The Matrix tonight, on a DXM trip--probably the last one I will have in a long, long while.
Got a lot of things I didn't get before. At least, I feel I do. And, believe me, this is one of my favorite movies of all time. I saw it around 14 times before I bought it on DVD. 5 times in the theater.
So, I'm thinking I might do my dissertation, if I were to go into grad school for American Culture Studies (specifically pop film culture), on the dialectic between the films The Matrix and The One. As a dialectic, I think the two films offer an immense order of semiotic information.
I believe The Matrix is a parable of our times. The One, not by the same writer or production company as The Matrix, is a continuation of that general parable. Its story line was nearly the exact flip-flop of that of The Matrix.
F bought a microcassette recorder, and I used one little cassette extensively this morning to record my first tentative notes about the film. What a coincidence that he went out and bought one. It really came in handy!
Finally, an idea. I'd been waiting for one of those.
Got a lot of things I didn't get before. At least, I feel I do. And, believe me, this is one of my favorite movies of all time. I saw it around 14 times before I bought it on DVD. 5 times in the theater.
So, I'm thinking I might do my dissertation, if I were to go into grad school for American Culture Studies (specifically pop film culture), on the dialectic between the films The Matrix and The One. As a dialectic, I think the two films offer an immense order of semiotic information.
I believe The Matrix is a parable of our times. The One, not by the same writer or production company as The Matrix, is a continuation of that general parable. Its story line was nearly the exact flip-flop of that of The Matrix.
F bought a microcassette recorder, and I used one little cassette extensively this morning to record my first tentative notes about the film. What a coincidence that he went out and bought one. It really came in handy!
Finally, an idea. I'd been waiting for one of those.
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Re: Sorry about all these messages :-)
Date: 2001-11-25 07:06 am (UTC)You know, like, what fundamental Star Wars archetypes are also present in ancient Greek myths (or was it Indian myths, maybe that too). He makes that kind of comparison. Some of it is fascinating.
He was looking for the fundamental archetypes present in all myths, finding the "single story" that underlies all myth. So I imagine today's postmodern scholars would have some problems with him, and they should, since I think he goes too far with his reductionism sometimes. But there's still a lot of good stuff there. I like him. I'm sure he would have things to say about The Matrix, I'm just not sure what exactly.