Yeah what was with that, that made absolutely non-sense what so ever. Noe uses his powers to stop sentinals, then reenters the matrix through his owne mind. WHat?
I like to think of the Matrix as an existential sci-fi movie. The whole idea of Neo not believing in destiny, because he doesnt like the idea of someone or something having control over him, had a real impact on me personally.
I just think of it as a really cool sci-fi movie with good special effects. I have never really applied philosophy to it before. Maybe I should watch it again.
You really should! The first movie is the best example of it. And so is the Animatrix if you get a chance to watch that too. The movie deals with alot of the "Big" questions. I think alot of people made the mistake of just taking the Matrix as just another sci-fi flick and didnt really get the unerlying message, but thats just my opinion.
yeah Shaba your not alone, Neo could easily represent each of as individuals as it is our task to overcome bullshit in order to make the world a better place.
I love The Matrix, all 3, but i think my favorite is the 2nd movie. What i dont get is when, in the first movie, the Architect says that it would be the 6th time that the Matrix and Zion would be destroyed. Somewhere back in the movie, Morpheus says its 2199, or around that age, while the people in the matrix think its around 2000. In his speech in the second film Morpheus says that Zion has survived for over a hundred years. So when did all the 6 times of destroying it happen?
They happened between 2000- 2199 but the people we not aware of the changes because the could not see the matrix as a facade.
but the people in zion didnt live in a 'dreamworld', and he says that both the matrix and zion were destroyed.
As I understood it, there was a necessary part of the program controlling people's lives in the matrix, represented by The Oracle. This was something to do with people's minds not accepting the environment of a utopian world and thus dying in batches. The machines would try and prevent this 'leak' in the system by combating it with agents (in the matrix) and sentinels (in the real world), vis-a-vis destroying the humans living in Zion when they became too much of a threat, by launching an all-out strike. Ergo, Zion had been destroyed many times before with the problem resurfacing in the program like a new virus. But the question was how did all this happen in such a relative short period of time? And the answer is that time itself is relative. For how could these humans really determine what dateline they actually habited? There's a clue in what Morpheus says to Neo in the first Matrix..."What you think is the twentyfirst is more like..." Morpheus himself doesn't really know. All he knows is that they're a lot further from the 20th century. But at the end of the day you shouldn't search for an answer. You know the answer.
