The Matrix Reloaded

For those of you who don't know, I saw the Matrix Reloaded about a week and a half ago, and I must say, it was excellent. What I have noticed most from The Matrices are strong philosophical messages. The first Matrix was very heavily weighted with a "platoesque" philosophy of what is real and what is illusion and why it is necessary to see reality over illusion, even when illusion may be more comfortable. In the second Matrix, the philosophy primarily focused on technology and when technology goes from being controlled by us to controlling us, or if there really is a division. In short, the philosophy of The Matricies is our very own, modern equivalent to the works of Plato. Rather than dealing with the issues of classical thinkers: the ideal state or man's understanding of the world, they deal with very pertenant modern-day issues. When does reality become illusion because of the mass manufacturing of "reality TV" (actually further away from reality than any real show I've ever seen, except for Star Trek maybe) and video games whose emphasis is on how to maximize the number of calculations per second it takes to display blood splatters, consume more time than the world we actually live in? Or when do we become so dependent on technology that it orders the way our lives work? Who is controlling who then? Although I grew a bit tired of the endless and eventually boring battle scenes, it was a refreshing piece of "real" film. Or maybe I just over analyzed it, but it really does make it better that way.