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...This isn’t the tagline for “The Matrix 3,” but rather the question proposed by MIT Professor Seth Lloyd ’82 in his new book, “Programming the Universe...
...back in seventh grade.” 4. “Wake Up” by Rage Against the Machine “Zack de la Rocha’s got a good scream. I think I started with this after I saw ‘The Matrix.’” 5. “Peaches in Regalia” by Frank Zappa “I think this is actually from the first CD I ever had. My dad gave it to me because he really likes Frank Zappa. It’s just really good...
Bottom line: An entertaining movie for action lovers who watched the entirety of “The Matrix Trilogy,” but perhaps not one for the overly-critical philosophy or government concentrator...
Which is to say, Vendetta is up there with the Wachowski brothers' first Matrix film, which anybody could see had more on its agenda than aerobatic martial arts. The brothers, who wrote the Vendetta script that James McTeigue spiffily directed, are back in top form--not larding political meaning on an action plot but finding a seamless blending of the two. Whether you're mindless or Mensa, you'll find stuff here to challenge and trouble you, the way a good piece of speculative fiction should...
That is surely an apt subject for a movie--even, and especially, a popcorn movie. If a cheapo '50s fantasy called Invasion of the Body Snatchers could also be a rich parable of conformist paranoia, and if The Matrix could clue kids into mathematics and philosophy, then a film as bold and thoughtful as V for Vendetta is allowed to stoke a multiplex debate on the use and abuse of state power. The best works of popular art get to play by their own rules...