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From: grahamdrew grahamdrew@*********.com
Subject: Matrix
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 14:07:38 -0500
dghost@****.com wrote:
>
> I just saw a commercial for the movie The matrix and ... WOW! It's got
> that hack, Keanu Reeves (Sp?) in the lead, but WOW! That is a
> mindblowing commercial ... Can anybody fill me in on the premise for the
> movie?
Well, after watching the trailer over and over trying to figure out
what's happening, I see it as a cybered Truman Show, with Reeves playing
a guy who has been living in a computer simulated work, then finds out
what it really is, the leads an effort to do somehting (this is where my
powers of deduction fallshort) in which there is a lot of random
shooting. Well, I'm seeing it :-)

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