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Re: Monday, October 8, 2001
This is what I wrote on my weblog (http://www.electricedge.com/greymatter) September 16 after watching The Matrix at a friend's house: Later we watched The Matrix on DVD with great surround sound. I saw it on the big screen when it came out and loved it. Tonight I felt very uncomfortable watching parts of it. When the helicopter crashes into the skyscraper and a ball of flame erupts I kept thinking about another ball of flame erupting from another skyscraper. And the realization, watching it this time, that, when balls of flame erupt from the side of a skyscraper, people are going to die. Many people. We have watched so much violence on the big and little screens. We know that it's not real and I think that we start confusing the fact that no one is really getting hurt on the screen with reality - that maybe no one is really getting hurt in real life too. At least not the hero. Recent events indicate otherwise. Young men are anxious to enlist so they can invade Afgahnistan and whup some ass. I guess every generation has to find out for itself. Not everyone runs through walls of bullets like Keanu Reeves.
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