Sean
2004-08-17 13:58:14 UTC
Recently I ran across (but didn't bookmark) some commentary
to that effect. I can't seem to find it again, but a quick
Google search found the following:
So what's disturbing about all this? On the surface, there is
nothing, and it is a wonderful movie where the good guys are
wonderfully diverse: there is racial diversity, sexual diversity,
including male, female, and one wonderfully ambiguous character
appropriately named "Switch," while the character Trinity seems
trendily lesbian -- she favors black leather (or is it plastic?)
when in the Matrix, and short-cropped black hair, and is
one ferocious kick-boxer...
---- http://www.theafrican.com/Magazine/matrix.htm
Carrie Anne Moss, who plays Trinity, does not conform
to stereotypical Hollywood images of attractiveness,
in that she does not have huge breasts, she has short
dark hair and though she is striking to look at
(and I believe once modelled) she is not little-girl pretty.
Martyn Palmer suggests that Trinity is a gay (sic) icon
linking this to her catsuit, sunglasses and 'mannish haircut'.
---- http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/films/holytrinity.live
Trinity as "fag-hag"
Professor Pookster has argued, rather convincingly, that "Every
fag has a fag-hag." At least that's the argument she always gives
me for why she spends so much time with her friend Sean. The
fag-hag is typically a single, frequently bitter, young woman
of about the subject man's age who spends a lot of time eating
and shopping with the man. She will act as his beard when his
parents come over and at office parties. She will sometimes be
the committee of one before whom he submits potential lovers
for approval (before disregarding her advice and sleeping with
the potential lover anyway).
The role of Trinity (played by ex-model Carrie-Ann Moss) serves
this purpose in the Matrix. Think about it. It's her job to go
and fetch Neo. It's her job to make sure Neo is not a threat to
her close friend Morpheus. And all the while she pines for young
Neo, wishing that circumstances were different, and only having
the courage to kiss him when there is no chance that he will know
he's been kissed. When Neo is briefly convinced by The Oracle
that he "is not" it is Trinity who worries about how Morpheus
will take it.
---- http://www.epinions.com/content_28377714308
Sean
to that effect. I can't seem to find it again, but a quick
Google search found the following:
So what's disturbing about all this? On the surface, there is
nothing, and it is a wonderful movie where the good guys are
wonderfully diverse: there is racial diversity, sexual diversity,
including male, female, and one wonderfully ambiguous character
appropriately named "Switch," while the character Trinity seems
trendily lesbian -- she favors black leather (or is it plastic?)
when in the Matrix, and short-cropped black hair, and is
one ferocious kick-boxer...
---- http://www.theafrican.com/Magazine/matrix.htm
Carrie Anne Moss, who plays Trinity, does not conform
to stereotypical Hollywood images of attractiveness,
in that she does not have huge breasts, she has short
dark hair and though she is striking to look at
(and I believe once modelled) she is not little-girl pretty.
Martyn Palmer suggests that Trinity is a gay (sic) icon
linking this to her catsuit, sunglasses and 'mannish haircut'.
---- http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/films/holytrinity.live
Trinity as "fag-hag"
Professor Pookster has argued, rather convincingly, that "Every
fag has a fag-hag." At least that's the argument she always gives
me for why she spends so much time with her friend Sean. The
fag-hag is typically a single, frequently bitter, young woman
of about the subject man's age who spends a lot of time eating
and shopping with the man. She will act as his beard when his
parents come over and at office parties. She will sometimes be
the committee of one before whom he submits potential lovers
for approval (before disregarding her advice and sleeping with
the potential lover anyway).
The role of Trinity (played by ex-model Carrie-Ann Moss) serves
this purpose in the Matrix. Think about it. It's her job to go
and fetch Neo. It's her job to make sure Neo is not a threat to
her close friend Morpheus. And all the while she pines for young
Neo, wishing that circumstances were different, and only having
the courage to kiss him when there is no chance that he will know
he's been kissed. When Neo is briefly convinced by The Oracle
that he "is not" it is Trinity who worries about how Morpheus
will take it.
---- http://www.epinions.com/content_28377714308
Sean