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50 Criterion Collection DVD Covers

By reckon | Published: December 30, 2008
Fifty hand-picked covers from the Criterion collection, which does its own original designs, miles apart from the commercial DVD covers. via Kottke via Quipsologies
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Synchronistic Linguistics in the Matrix

By reckon | Published: December 30, 2008
As I write this on the night of April 25th, 1999, a film called The Matrix is number one at the box office. Though by no means a perfect science fiction movie, it still manages to pack one hell of a wallop. I'd hardly put it on the same scale as 2001: A Space Odyssey or Brazil, or even Blade Runner, but at the same time I don't believe the flaws in the film represent a weakness on the part of the Wachowski Brothers' writing talents. I believe the film is designed to disseminate a subversive message through the filter of popular culture. As Marshall McLuhan said, "Anything that's popular is a rear-view image." The Matrix is not about the future, it's about the past.
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