"The Fight Club". Check it out.

-- (ithurtssogood@just.desserts), October 16, 1999

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Saw it today. Very strange movie. Both of the lead actors were very good, but it certainly did portray a very strange view of the future ... or maybe the present.

I notice that several recent movies have got strange twists -- e.g., "Sixth Sense," "Matrix," etc. Don't know if this is meant to Hollywood's commentary on the way things are today...

Ed

-- Ed Yourdon (ed@yourdon.com), October 17, 1999.

On the advice of Faith Weaver I rented the Matrix. I wait and wait and wait on overly media-hyped films all the time. This one however would have been worth the price of admission, had I climbed off my skeptical horse at the time it was in the theaters. LOL

Amazing, The Matrix! Jived perfectly with all I have ever thought about critical 'shifts in perspective' a person needs in order to "see", and 'save the world', and all the other idealisms I was supposed to have 'grown out of years ago', according to mother culture. But then, I've never rested easily in mother culture's nurturing arms, and spent many years doing the "she's nuts-I'm nuts dance."

If anyone's missed The Matrix, I whole-heartedly recommend it.

--She in the Sheet who loves to jog perspectives.

-- Donna (moment@pacbell.net), October 17, 1999.

Yes,strange twists.Many things we have seen in the movie`s have actually come to pass,sometimes I sit watching realizing this is a clue.Demolition man comes to mind constantly.I wonder if in the start of that movie when all hell has broken out,if that is not how true it could be,not to mention the one man who came to power after the great earth quakes and made anything bad for you illegal,even salt.He rid sexual contact to wipe out transmitted illnesses too.Then we see the one world order in effect ,you cannot buy,sell or trade without the mark inserted under the skin on the hand.Your doors open to your hand id or retna.The people that are called low life scrappers live under the streets seem to be a constant problem,who are these people?So big that the man in charge unfreezes and trains a convict from the past to kill the man who is the leader of these scrappers.Hence the release of stalone to stop the convict from terrorizing the peacefull people of this new world.Are these scrappers our future christians?Freedom fighters not willing to accept one world order! The movie is a trip.

-- y2kme1 (y2kme1@hotmail.com), October 17, 1999.

I posted my take on "Fightclub" and Y2k above, titled "Commodification of dissent." Then I found this post.

I enjoyed Fightclub, but at the end, when the "debts of the little guy" are wiped out, I got the sinking feeling that I was being conditioned to A) "look on the bright side" of Y2k, and B) view the crash of data centers as the result of "terrorist" activity. There's also the anti-materialistic "you are not what you own" diminished-expectations message, which is very convenient as we slide into a depression.

Liberty

-- Liberty (liberty@theready.now), October 17, 1999.

It's the "revealing of the method" at the End of the Age. 'The Matrix' offered a unique take on the always important idea that 'things are not what they seem.' It is an aboriginal belief, too, that this world is a dream world, which we awake from when we die. Are memes being planted in the Community Consciousness by our film avatars? Natch.

-- Spidey (in@jam.$8?!), October 18, 1999.