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Went to see it last night. My wife and I loved it. I saw the tv screens. I didn't come away thinking the film had equated Bush with Hitler. Not at all. My wife didn't either- although she's an evil German.

To tell the truth, I was too busy trying to figure out what the architect was talking about to pay much attention to the screens. It'll take a frame by frame analysis and many more veiwings. There's some other details I'm interested in as well: when they're showing Neo's memories (from childhood for example), do they also show memories he had after he was unplugged (in the first film)?

We're going to see it a few more times though so we'll pay attention to that scene every time and note if it makes us stop liking President Bush. I'll give it a bit more study too when I buy the DVD.

Also, does anybody else make a connection between Agent Smith and the Greek God Cronus (which means "crow")? In mythology, Gaia gave her son Cronus a sickle to castrate Uranus in the underworld Tartarus (which is also where Persephone was held by Hades). In the movie, when Neo and Agent Smith meet (after the Oracle scene), Smith walks up as crows fly slowly away. When Smith "hacks" into Zion in the form of Bane he is seen with a sickle shaped knife with which he cuts his hand twice (for some reason). Anybody got any ideas?

I hate to break it to you, but Cronus (Kronos in Greek) doesn't mean crow. The name Cronus is derived from the verb "kraino" which, like all Greek words, has several meanings. The primary one is "to accomplish, fulfill, bring to pass." This was later adoped to mean "to exercise sway over, to rule."

Kronos, then, means "he who brings this to pass" or, more likely "he who rules."

The closest word that relates to crows in Greek is Krozdo, with an omega for the first "o" (compared to the omicron in Kronos and Kraino), which means "to caw." The various words for crow are "korone" (second o Omega, = sea-crow) and korax (carrion-crow).

The association of Kronos to crows is actually a reverse adoption from the identification of him to the Roman god Saturn, a god of sowing and crops (and thus, the seasons and time, which, coupled with the linguistic weakening of the Chi sound from an aspirate to a simple kappa in Western Greek, made Kronos sound identical to khronos (time)).