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THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS

Part 1:

By the time I came to watch some of The Matrix Revolutions in 2014, the Matrix phenomenon had already come to an end for five years.  This film was a 2003 American science-fiction action piece, and was the third installment of  The Matrix Trilogy. The film was released six months following The Matrix Reloaded. The film was written and directed by those same Wachowski Brothers, and released simultaneously in 60 countries on 5 November 2003. By 2003 I had been retired from all FT and PT paid employment, and had taken an early retirement.

While this film was the final in the series, the Matrix storyline continued in The Matrix Online for the millions of Matrix enthusiasts with video-game proclivities.  The Matrix Online was a multi-player online game developed by Monolith Productions.  It was the official continuation of the storyline of The Matrix Trilogy. The game ran continuously until it was shut down on 31 July 2009 by Sony Online Entertainment.  I had lost contact with all that was associated with the Matrix until this evening, as I chanced-upon a rerun during my visit with my son, his wife and my grand-daughter who is now 3 and who has made me a fully-fledged grandfather after some 20 years of my step-grand-fatherhood.

Part 1.1:

Sony Online Entertainment unexpectedly decided to discontinue service to the The Matrix Online game due to low subscription numbers by June 2009.  You can read all about "the final event" and "the game rankings" on this online game at several sites in cyberspace, if you so desire.  I leave that to readers here with the interest in a film phenomenon that captured the interests of millions in the last dozen years or so.  

By 2009, when all that was Matrix had ended, I was on two old-age pensions and had reinvented myself as a writer and author, poet and publisher, online blogger and journalist, editor and researcher, reader and scholar.

Part 2:

The game itself became the official continuation of the universe, story and characters established in The Matrix series of fictional works. Those works included the Movie Trilogy, The Animatrix short films, the Enter The Matrix video game and a series of officially written and produced Matrix comic books. This continuation was written by the award winning comic book writer Paul Chadwick, and later collaboratively with MxO lead game designer, Ben "Rarebit" Chamberlain.

Again, I won't give you the details of the plot and the story-line, the characters and the cast, the production and sound systems, the budget and box-office revenues, the film's reception and the many references to the film in the media. You can read all about these aspects of this final film in the series, if you have the interest.

Part 3:

I'll put all this to bed

now as I head into my

70s in the next 5 months

as old-age creeps-up on

me in this 21st century.

There are so many realities:

virtual, secondary, primary,

metaphorical, personal, and

to each their own as we head

into this climacteric of history,

and as we head into our own

futures toward death, into that

hole from which no man returns,

to the end of our days, & in these

time-of-the-end days, eschatology

as they say in theological circles.(1)

(1) Eschatology is that part of theology concerned with what are believed to be the final events of history, or the ultimate destiny of humanity. This concept is commonly referred to as the "end of the world" or "end time".

Ron Price

4/3/'14.