{"id":500,"date":"2003-11-11T10:13:23","date_gmt":"2003-11-11T10:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbassford.com\/?p=500"},"modified":"2021-11-12T20:11:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T01:11:32","slug":"talking_about_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2003\/11\/11\/talking_about_a\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking about a revolution."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to see Matrix Revolutions last night, and I have to say that I liked it a lot.  I don&#8217;t know what all of the criticism is about.  Put together (because they are really a single movie just cut it half) Reloaded and Revolutions worked quite well.  I liked the &#8220;mythology&#8221; and I actually enjoyed the fact that many things were still left unexplained &#8211; I thought it added to the mystique of the world.  In point of fact, I suspect that things are <i>supposed<\/i> to be left unexplained.  That&#8217;s what the theme of the series of movies is all about &#8211; that things are never what they seem to be, and that there&#8217;s always something else going on.  (I find this way of thinking more natural than just assuming that the Wachowski brothers didn&#8217;t know how to wrap things up.)  We&#8217;re able to &#8220;voyeuristically&#8221; catch glimpses of the lives of the people in the world, but I don&#8217;t think that we&#8217;re supposed to have the plot hit us on the head so that everything happens in a straight-forward and unquestioned manner.<\/p>\n<p>So, rather than being disappointed with either of the sequels, I&#8217;m actually impressed.  While the first in the trilogy is still the best, the second and third are still worthy follow-ups and, as a whole, make the franchise better for having them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to see Matrix Revolutions last night, and I have to say that I liked it a lot. I don&#8217;t know what all of the criticism is about. Put together (because they are really a single movie just cut it half) Reloaded and Revolutions worked quite well. I liked the &#8220;mythology&#8221; and I actually &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2003\/11\/11\/talking_about_a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Talking about a revolution.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}