[Protoclown]

Woah, that's pretty cool! Having not seen the first movie since I've seen Matrix Reloaded, I hadn't even thought about that!

I'm sure that if I were to go back and watch the first one again, I would see a lot of symbolism and parallels that continue into the second movie that I never noticed before.

I like what Cornel West said in that article you posted. That the critics haven't quite caught on to the depth of the second movie yet, but the scholars are on the road to figuring it out.