Product details: - Paperback: 160 pages
- Author: Stephen Faller
- Publisher: Chalice Press
- Publication Date: 2004-03
- Studio: Chalice Press
- Manufacturer: Chalice Press
- Package Dimensions: 8.82 x 49 x 75 inches
Citing scenes from all three movies, Stephen Faller plugs into the richly textured and deeply interwoven network of religion, philosophy, Western values, and popular culture to reveal the films' many layers of meaning. He parallels the conceptions of Andy and Larry Wachowski-The Matrix creators-with those of such visionaries as Socrates, Descartes, Kierkegaard, Freud, Orwell, Huxley, and Spielberg, exploring the Matrix as an expression of the fears, the quests, and the dreams that human kind has struggle to define and conquer.Customer reviews:  From the Author:, 2004-09-30
Are you interested in life beyond the Matrix? I wrote this book to explore questions of freedom and to take a serious look at the implication of the entire trilogy. You won't find an encyclopedia of the movies, but you will find a literary attempt to recreate Neo's journey into a larger world. If you want to get a taste, google the book to find the secret companion website which has additional content and more explanatory and analytic essays. No one can be told what it is...
 Sorta Cliche, but at times good. , 2004-09-18
I was hoping this book might explain some of the religious and philosophical allegories of the films. It does a little of that.
Most of the book is very oriented about how you should live your life, to be free of your own personal matrices. Which is an ok message, but the book tends to get sorta "rah, rah, rah, go team" about it and keeps quoting the movies cliches over and over.
I also feel that some of the analogies to historical events were either forced, or wrong. Things like "Hitler was elected president and then became a dictator" are not entirely accurate. Sometimes the author would pull off into tangents about other movies, and I wished he would focus on the movie at hand. And sometimes, I would disagree with the author's analysis of the films as too simplistic. (i.e. I don't think he gives Smith enough credit)
Overall, there were some interesting points and analogies though, so parts of it made for good reading.
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