RE: virus: The Matrix [spoilers]

Sodom (sodom@ma.ultranet.com)
Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:05:49 -0400

OK Tim, I went to it again, and you are wrong, sorry. There was a Red pill and Blue pill in the reflection of the glasses but I would have liked it more also if that was not the case.

After watching it again and very closely I did notice a cool thing: The Matrix was the second Matrix - the first Matrix was heaven on Earth, but the people werent happy and would not accept the program - so they re-programmed it to the time right before computers became sentient.

Bill Roh

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
> Of Eva-Lise Carlstrom
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 2:44 PM
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> Subject: Re: virus: The Matrix [spoilers]
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> On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Tim Rhodes wrote:
>
> > Sodom wrote:
> >
> >
> > >Well, Kristee, it's the same old tale. One pill (the red
> one) will reveal
> > >the truth of reality to the person, the other (blue pill)
> will obliterate
> > it
> > >completely and let the person live in the fantasy world.
> > >
> > >I'll take the red pill.
> >
> >
> > If you see the movie again, look at the reflextion of the
> pills in Morpheus'
> > sunglasses--both pills are blue.
> >
> > There is no red pill.
> >
> > -Prof. Tim
> >
>
> Oh, oh, now you've done it,Tim...I *am* going to have to see it again.
> Maybe tonight.
>
> One thing I enjoyed was all the little subtle jokes. I found
> myself the
> only one in the theatre I could hear laughing, a couple times. But
> everyone else seemed to enjoy it too.
>
> The logic behind the situation in the real world needs a lot
> of excuses to
> shore it up, but I was willing to do so at least for the length of the
> movie, for the sake of the rest of it.
>
> --Eva
>