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Two movies and a play
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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In the last three or four days I've seen The Matrix (I know, I should have seen it two years ago), Moulin Rouge and a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. All three works have a similar idea, that "art" is the basis for whatever sense of reality we have. Of the three, though, I think that by far the best is Shakespeare's play. I think so even though the production I saw was pretty bad (and it cost US$60 for two tickets) and even though the play is pretty early in Shakespeare's career, and for the development of the theme of artifice as reality it doesn't really hold a candle to The Tempest. I really disliked The Matrix. The mixture of vaguely Eastern philosophy coupled to 1950's B-movie horror at the creeping power of science, and all that grafted onto the technologizing of cinematography was, I thought, pretty repellent. Moulin Rouge was good, but I thought the movie more interesting for what it said about Luhrman's Romanticism. I find Romantics generally pretty hard to take. Now I acknowledge that Dream has a large element of romance--but I do not think that it is at all Romantic. Anyway, Moulin Rouge reminded me of something a Renaissance scholar said in one of her books, that the seventeenth was the last century when people could look inwards and not fall in.
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And that's true too.--Shakespeare, King Lear
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Hmm, I agree with you on the Matrix, but I can't speak for Moulin Rouge, as I haven't seen it.
I guess I'll have to grab a copy of Rouge off a friend of mine...
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The matrix ****ing kicked ass! 
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Eh, it was just action. Nothing much more than that.
Albeit entertaining, but that was all.
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I hate to turn this into a Matrix thread, but... as I haven't seen Moulin Rouge or A Midsummer Night's Dream... Matrix was quite a good movie. It was tried and true sci-fi, nothing new or ground breaking or particularly interesting, but enough to carry a plot. The action was really great though. I'm kinda sick of CG special effects. Their still not good enough that you can't tell that their CG. Most of the best action movies I'v seen in the last few years (Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Charlie's Angels) do it right. Shoot live action, and use CG to remove what you don't want (like strings). It just look better that using CG for the whole thing. I'm not a Matrix freak like many, but I did think it was a fun movie, mostly cuz of the action.
I'll have to catch Moulin Rouge. If you haven't guessed I've been avoiding AMND to have not seen or read it yet. Not quite sure why really, it just never interested. Maybe I'll give it a shot.
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