Some thoughts about a good movie.

I am watching The Matrix as I write this and I am struck by the similarity between it and the books we have been reading all three are distoypias where a group, human or otherwise complete dominate humanity, in 1984 through the innate bloodlust, in Brave new World through satisfaction(unlike Mick Jagger), In The Matrix it is through a hyper-advanced simulation that turns the human mind into an AI program much like the basic AI programs that are the enemies in a video game. However you have but one life as the placebo effect damages you and as Morpheus puts it "the body cannot survive without the mind" although that does pose the question of what one who has achieved zen could do. probably what Neo pulls off at the end. Just throwing that out there and well...freeing your mind.