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Matrix Films Blamed For Murder
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» eLDee a répondu le Sat 24 May, 2003 @ 6:56pm |
 Coolness: 121040 | Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
Monday May 19, 2003 The Guardian One of the attractions of The Matrix, the film whose sequel, The Matrix Reloaded, opens in Britain next week, was its blending of fantasy and reality. A series of murders in the United States suggests some people have been unable to distinguish between the two. Josh Cooke, a 19-year-old in Oakton, Virginia, owned a trenchcoat like the one worn by Neo, the character played by Keanu Reeves in the movie, and kept a poster of his hero on his bedroom wall. Then he bought a gun similar to the one used by Neo to fight evil. In February, he shot his father and mother in the basement of their home and then called the police. His lawyers say he believed that he was living inside the Matrix. The theme of the films is that computers have taken over the earth, although some humans exist in a computer-simulated world, battling to save humanity. "He's just obsessed with it," Cooke's defence attorney, Rachel Fierro, told the Washington Post. The local prosecutor, Robert Horan, said: "I don't think the movie causes violence. Millions and millions of people have seen it and not killed anybody." Cooke will now be examined by a psychiatrist. The Matrix seems to have spawned other imitators. Last week in Ohio, a woman was found not guilty of killing the professor whose house she rented, on the grounds of insanity. Tonda Lynn Ansley, 37, said she had had dreams which turned out not to be dreams. The local prosecutor said that, "in her warped perception", the film played a part in the killing. In San Francisco in 2000, Vadim Mieseges, 27, killed his landlady, Ella Wong, and pleaded not guilty on grounds of insanity. The police who interviewed him said he had made "reference to being sucked into the Matrix". The young man accused of taking part in last year's sniper attacks in the Washington area has also cited the film. "Free yourself of the Matrix," wrote Lee Boyd Malvo, 18, one of the two defendants, in his jail cell. Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003 |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico a répondu le Sat 24 May, 2003 @ 7:21pm |
 Coolness: 150585 | People, are just way to fucked up these days (take it from me, i have my own 'idea' of reality), they just take shit way to far and seriously.
"It's funny how these days people think if something is mentioned in a movie its real-- If you cough while smoking weed, you get 20% higher, eh" |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Necspress a répondu le Sat 24 May, 2003 @ 7:30pm |
 Coolness: 53730 | WOW, u can actually make Money with peeps like that.
-Exit the Matrix here, only 10$!! -For only 10$ u can exit the Matrix!! -For a limited time only!! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico a répondu le Sat 24 May, 2003 @ 8:09pm |
| Coolness: 150585 | lol
The new generation of gulible-pyscho's |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Luna-1 a répondu le Sat 24 May, 2003 @ 8:15pm |
 Coolness: 118625 | I GOT A BETTER DEAL
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» da_instagatah a répondu le Sat 24 May, 2003 @ 11:02pm |
 Coolness: 144355 | wow wouldnt it be soooo bad if we put this in news postings and articles |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» elka a répondu le Sun 25 May, 2003 @ 3:14am |
| Coolness: 52555 | ugh again??
this happened the first matrix.. some idiots blamed columbine on the matrix.. even though it came out DAYS before the shooting.. riiight |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» G__ a répondu le Sun 25 May, 2003 @ 6:19am |
| Coolness: 141490 | blame canada |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform a répondu le Sun 25 May, 2003 @ 11:48am |
 Coolness: 339790 | *watches rambo 2*
woah, i'm gonna go get super buff and kill everyone i see. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Violence_Inc a répondu le Sun 25 May, 2003 @ 12:41pm |
 Coolness: 174215 | you get buff...i find that funny. |
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