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{mosimage}It is as unlikely that anyone will be able to parse the meaning of by reviewing the political history of Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder conspiracy as it is that history will remember all those tortured, turgid, adolescent essays about the philosophy behind The Matrix trilogy. If the Wachowski brothers — the verbose screensmiths behind this movie and that previous black leather opus — have a political philosophy it is well hidden.

Woody Allen's collateral damage

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{mosimage}The opening voiceover of , with its image of a tennis ball tipped at the net and hovering, about to fall on one side or the other, might lead some to quickly pigeonhole Woody AllenöÏÓãÊÓƵapp forthright blunder back into film making respectability. This movie is a story about luck, the role chance plays in determining our lives, it says.