[Prodigal Son]

I'm starting to believe the dance scene was a device to get the viewing audience to believe the people in Zion are real. I'm not so sure they are- or rather, I'm not so sure they have ever been uplugged from the Matrix (or indeed whether the Matrix ever existed).

The dance scene didn't disturb me. I've been on dance floors that looked similar. I had occasion to contrast the film yesterday with another brand of stage performance- the ballet. Went to see Reloaded in the morning, went to the ballet in the evening. I didn't see anything in the Matrix dance scene that I did not also see at the ballet, but the ballet went on for considerably longer. There was also more nudity at the ballet. In one vignette the female dancer was topless and the way she and the male dancer writhed their bodies against one another wasn't that much different than what I saw in the film. LOL! I even saw dreadlocks at the ballet- 'Ghost Dances'.

At least at the Matrix I didn't have an oppressively snobbish English woman sitting next to me asking me why I didn't like the Rambert company's 'Living Toys' ;-)

[Mamzelle]

I also disagree with the charactarization that the dance sequence was an orgy--unless orgies are really boring. It was a neat shot at the beginning, but got tired of looking at closeups of muddy feet. And I'm not up for taking my kids to see any movie with simulated sex (not the dance sequence, but Trinity and Neo). What's the deal? Are they trying to do themselves out of a market? The trend is away from that stuff.