John Clark is a man with a won­der­ful job, a charm­ing wife and a lov­ing fam­ily, who nev­er­the­less feels that some­thing is miss­ing as he makes his way every day through the city. Each evening on his com­mute home, John sees a beau­ti­ful woman, star­ing with a lost expres­sion through the win­dow of a dance stu­dio. Haunted by her gaze, John impul­sively jumps off the train one night, and signs up for dance lessons, hop­ing to meet her.

The past sev­eral months, we’ve seen the pro­lif­er­a­tion of Hol­ly­wood movies that are pre­quels of movies already shown in the past. We have the really well-made and well-casted Startrek which tells us the back sto­ries of the now leg­endary James Kirk, Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy and Spock. We also have the X Men Ori­gins series that begins with Wolverine’s story. They will have a series of X Men Ori­gins movies that will tell us the back sto­ries of Jean Gray, Cyclops, and prob­a­bly even Pro­fes­sor Xavier. A few years back, we had the Bat­man Fran­chise reboot­ing with Bat­man Begins.

Here’s some­thing I got from DenofGeek. Some of the movies here are really good, and I so look for­ward to watch­ing them, while some just makes me go, “Hmmm…?!”
The dom­i­na­tion of sequels in the big sum­mer and win­ter sched­ules con­tin­ues, and if the fol­low­ing — in par­tic­u­lar order — is any­thing to go by, it’s going to carry on for many years to come…
The Brazil­ian Job: the fol­low up to Paramount’s US remake of The Ital­ian Job is still on the cards, and it’s got a 2009 release date marked. Jason Statham, …

The Matrix has been called by some movie­go­ers as a modern-day ren­di­tion of Plato’s Alle­gory of the Cave. We notice for exam­ple the dif­fer­ent binary oppos­ing themes found in both the film and the Alle­gory: appearance/reality, dream/wakefulness, shadows/forms, vir­tual reality/actual real­ity. Sim­i­lar to the Alle­gory of the Cave, the basic ques­tion of the Matrix is: what if what I think of as the real world is not really real? What if I am in “a cave”? Or more specif­i­cally in the movie: “How do I know that this world I’m liv­ing in, is the real world and not a vir­tual real­ity pro­gram cre­ated by arti­fi­cial intelligence?”

Which also sounds like Descartes prob­lem in Med­i­ta­tions on First Phi­los­o­phy. How do I know that I am not just dream­ing? That I am not a fool imag­in­ing all this in my mind? How do I know that I am not being deceived? And a more fun­da­men­tal ques­tion: of what can I be cer­tain about? Where can I find the ground of cer­ti­tude?

“The peo­ple who are try­ing to make this world worse are not tak­ing a day off, how can I?

1. Castillo-Corrales 12. Axe 24/7
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