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My Number One Comedy of All Time has its own festival! I didn’t know this! Maybe I should make the trip next year. It’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie… Or bowled… Or had a white russian…

The Real Lebowski lives. And people love him. Jeff Dowd, the inspiration for the main character in the Coen brothersí 1998 mistaken identity comedy ìThe Big Lebowski,î joined more than a thousand fans at the second annual Lebowski Fest ó a celebration of bowling, white Russians and all things Lebowski.

Martin Marprelate answered my questions over at his blog on saturday.

Talking to some other friends over the weekend, we all agreed on this: We can’t wait for the next movie. There are so many things that will hopefully be addressed in the final installment.

Just sent this email to Martin Marprelate. Owner of the blog with some wonderful Matrix Reloaded discussions:

Thank you for your excellent analysis of Reloaded. I’ve enjoyed it and have been pointing people towards your site.

One question that I haven’t seen addressed anywhere…

What do you think the significance is of the multiple monitors during the architect scene, and the many varying reactions by Neo to what the Architect was saying. Also, the moving between different iterations of this scene has me wondering as well. I’m speaking of when the camera flies through one of the monitors and into the “same” scene. Much like in the Matrix when Neo is first interrogated by the Agents. We see many monitors and we zoom into one of them.

Are these simulations by the Matrix of how things might pan out? Similar to how humans (I seem to do this) foresee a conversation they are about to have, and run through different iterations of how that conversation might go?

I’m interested to hear your thoughts, thanks-

A.J.

I thought I would drop two more Matrix links on here…

This first article is the closest to what I think is going on. I know I’ve just posted a few links here and there, and not really fleshing out some sort of theory. I don’t really have the knowledge and background to really dive into it, but originally I was thinking “layers” or “The Matrix within a Matrix”. John was pretty much against this all along, but being the open-minded fellow he is, he heard me out.

I’ve pretty much dropped that theory now, and I’m running with Neo being imprinted with some computer code that helps him stop the machines in the real world. I’m not completely convinced that he is actually human, regardless of what the Architect says. Basically I don’t know.

Here’s what I’m still not understanding. What do the multiple iterations of Neo on all the computer monitors during the Architect scene mean? To me it looked like hundreds of different reactions to the Architects questions. And the way we were entering and leaving the monitors pointed to multiple, parallel Matrices.

So basically, I haven’t a clue.

Matrix Article #1, (or #3 I think, depending on how you want to count it.)

What follows is a series of explorations of the meaning of certain scenes as well as how the matrix hangs together as a whole. Donít read any further if you want to avoid spoilers!

A transcript of the Architect / Neo talk, with notes.

We went to see Finding Nemo last week. The movie was wonderful. The cheesy disney-moment count was only 1. Good score. The animation was amazing. There are once again funny little adult jokes peppered into the script. They showed a trailer for “The Incredibles” and that looks absolutely hilarious. Pixar just keeps knocking them out, and I love it!

The Matrix way of knowledge

From the Gnostic gospels to the visions of Descartes to the shamanic quests of Eastern mystics, the Wachowski brothers’ pop opus weaves a dense web of philosophical and metaphysical allusions.

You’ll have to watch a Salon Premium advert before you can read… choose the day pass option on the lower right.

Only after actually seeing the movie are you allowed to read this, (no cheating, this covers the whole thing! Don’t say I didn’t warn you!)

This is the most well-researched analysis I’ve found yet of Reloaded. Please feel free to let me know if you agree/disagree or just want to chat about it. I’m always in the mood to do a little popcorn-philosophizing about the matrix.