For me the description of an ideal movie is "A series of gunshots and explosions strung together by one liners". I go to the movies for amusement, not intellectual satisfaction. That said:
By the way, I didn't take seriously the view that _we_ are living in a Matrix world. The film was ambivalent on the claim that _this_ world is a Matrix world: it was more plausible to buy the timeline Morpheus gives of how _our_ world becomes the "Matrix" world. That is, the events taking place are "really" a few hundred years from now, with the machines having set the "environment bit" to "late 20th century." I thought this was obvious. Maybe not. Normally I don't worry ovemuch about such subtleties, but it seemed to me some fraction of Bob Hettinga's hate-rant had something to do with the supposed conceit that _our_ world is the "Matrix" world. I didn't take it this way. Rather, I took it as a classic SF story, describing some _possible future_.
The *ONE* thing that beefed me big time about the "Matrix" was the excuse they gave for the computer keeping all the people alive. The claim (as I remember) was that the bodies were used to store/create energy for the computer to run. It *really* irked me.
It's fun for a few seconds to think about the implications of _this_ world being a simulation in the Matrix, but it doesn't hold up, even in the context of the film's conceits. (I mean "conceit" in the lit-crit sense, not in the common sense.)
If this world *were* a computer generated construct, it would explain a few things. -- A quote from Petro's Archives: ********************************************** "We forbid any course that says we restrict free speech." --Dr. Kathleen Dixon, Director of Women s Studies, Bowling Green State University