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Sometime back I use to like the TOI caption - "No preaching. Just News"... I liked that. So I am trying to blog a unaltered and unbiased opion of the movie - "Matrix".
If nothing else .. i kinda liked the names and dialogues ..
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I liked the way .. characters were named in matrix. All the characters in the movie (except Tank, mouse and Dozer) were children of the matrix, they didn't have any real world names. So (in the story) probably they themselves were responsible for these symbolic names.
Some quick googling showed gave me these results -
1. Neo - Greek word `Neo` meaning New. Anagram of the word "One". Interesting
2. Morpheus - God of Dreams (Greek Phil.), son of Thanatos (god of Death) and the brother of Hypnos (god of Sleep).
3. Trinity - The holy Trinity, from the bible (Father , son and the holy ghost)
4. Oracle - Pretty straight forward .. a prophet/authoritative person who divines the future
5. Zion - A holy city , place (Jewish belief)
6. Merovingian - The Merovingians were a royal bloodline that ruled from early on after Christ and carried through their rulership of southern and central Europe(now France), until 680 AD. They claim direct kinship with Christ through his bloodline. Interesting ...
7. Persephone - Greek mythology; Daughter of Demeter (I think), grabbed by Hades and forced to live in the underworld... Kind of how the Merovingian has a hold over her until she defies him.
8. Epoch - Is time(UTC) since January 1st, 1970. Atleast thats what time.h (glibc2) says.
9. Niobe - In shakespearean texts Nirobi/Niobe was a symbol of grief, she lost 13 children. There is another myth to do with human arrogance, Noibe dares to claim herself to be better than a goddess. She was married to Amphion son of Zeus. Niobe had twelve children with Amphion and when boasting about them to Leto who only had two, brought the wrath of Apollo down on her and he punished this insult to his mother by shooting with arrows all of Niobe's children.
10. Nebuchadnezzar - He was a Babylonian ruler. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built by King Nebuchadnezzar II about 600 BC. The garden was his palace basically.
Nebuchadnezzar was a king who had a dream inspired by god which showed him a giant which was composed in 4 different metals gold, iron etc. then, the giant exploded, and a mountain grow up from it,taking all over the world. that dream was supposedly an indication of the 4 kindoms that ruled the world (last one was romans) .it is said that there won't be anymore kingdom trying to take over the world before the apocalypse.
Where others see Coincidence,
I see Consequence.
If you know something more ... put in the comments.
If nothing else .. i kinda liked the names and dialogues ..
dodge this ....
I liked the way .. characters were named in matrix. All the characters in the movie (except Tank, mouse and Dozer) were children of the matrix, they didn't have any real world names. So (in the story) probably they themselves were responsible for these symbolic names.
Some quick googling showed gave me these results -
1. Neo - Greek word `Neo` meaning New. Anagram of the word "One". Interesting
2. Morpheus - God of Dreams (Greek Phil.), son of Thanatos (god of Death) and the brother of Hypnos (god of Sleep).
3. Trinity - The holy Trinity, from the bible (Father , son and the holy ghost)
4. Oracle - Pretty straight forward .. a prophet/authoritative person who divines the future
5. Zion - A holy city , place (Jewish belief)
6. Merovingian - The Merovingians were a royal bloodline that ruled from early on after Christ and carried through their rulership of southern and central Europe(now France), until 680 AD. They claim direct kinship with Christ through his bloodline. Interesting ...
7. Persephone - Greek mythology; Daughter of Demeter (I think), grabbed by Hades and forced to live in the underworld... Kind of how the Merovingian has a hold over her until she defies him.
8. Epoch - Is time(UTC) since January 1st, 1970. Atleast thats what time.h (glibc2) says.
9. Niobe - In shakespearean texts Nirobi/Niobe was a symbol of grief, she lost 13 children. There is another myth to do with human arrogance, Noibe dares to claim herself to be better than a goddess. She was married to Amphion son of Zeus. Niobe had twelve children with Amphion and when boasting about them to Leto who only had two, brought the wrath of Apollo down on her and he punished this insult to his mother by shooting with arrows all of Niobe's children.
10. Nebuchadnezzar - He was a Babylonian ruler. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built by King Nebuchadnezzar II about 600 BC. The garden was his palace basically.
Nebuchadnezzar was a king who had a dream inspired by god which showed him a giant which was composed in 4 different metals gold, iron etc. then, the giant exploded, and a mountain grow up from it,taking all over the world. that dream was supposedly an indication of the 4 kindoms that ruled the world (last one was romans) .it is said that there won't be anymore kingdom trying to take over the world before the apocalypse.
Where others see Coincidence,
I see Consequence.
If you know something more ... put in the comments.
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2:16 AM
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