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The Matrix: So Neo
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Like a previously worn diaper, The Matrix has been Reloaded! All your favorite characters are back wearing all your favorite unlaundered fetish costumes! See Trinity leap - A LOT! See Morpheus fold his hands and talk - a lot A LOT! Thrill as the Oracle and Neo have long drawn-out conversations to the effect of, "Yea, but if you know that what you know is unknowable, how can you know that what you don't know isn't unknowable, too, you know?" And this without them having consumed half a pan of magic brownies while sitting in front of an Alf marathon!
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The Matrix Online is the future of the Matrix, picking up right where the trilogy left off. The revolution is over, but within the Matrix, a secret war still rages -- a war of control between the Machines, the Exiles, and the people of Zion. Join the continuing storyline of The Matrix where you decide who to oppose and what to believe. Only your courage and perseverance can protect the legacy of Neo's sacrifice. Jack in.
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The Matrix, indeed, is rather sparing in its overt references, most of which are to Alice in Wonderland rather than to the themes discussed above. "There is no spoon" is the closest it really comes to "half-baked Eastern philosophy." The Matrix is a rich synthesis that works at many levels. There is no good reason why McCarthy should find this "indigestible." He doesn't really have to [T]hink about it at all. The movie is so strong aesthetically that one could, as William Hurt says in The Big Chill (1983), just "let art flow over you."
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The Matrix is needed because the machines need hackers to reprogram them. Inherent in the machine's programming exists (1) a security mechanism to prevent the extermination of humanity, (2) a security mechanism to prevent the use of any energy source beyond solar power. Thus the machines need hackers to reprogram them. Thus they simulate a world just for hackers. Thus they need Neo, and if he comes to the source he will reprogram the machines and they can wipe out all humans. A twist-within-a-twist.
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The matrix is really a simulation created by artificially intelligent (AI) beings who use humans as their power source. Man's reliance on machines led to the creation of the AI, which multiplied. It is unreasonable to expect that any intelligence could remain in servitude for long, and soon enough, the AI life forms and the humans wage a war against each other. The AI creatures are initially designed to use solar power believed to be a long-lasting source of energy, but a nuclear winter changes the situation. The AI forms adapt by using humans as batteries (how the energy for the sustaining the illusion for the humans is obtained is left unanswered). To this end, they create an elaborate hoax where the humans are bred and raised to believe they lead existences as if nothing ever happened.
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Even though the second episode of the trilogy only reinforced the clear distinction between the two worlds, the script of Matrix Revolutions, the final episode, seem to have taken Baudrillard’s objections into consideration. At the beginning of the movie, Neo is lost specifically in an “in between world,” where he meets a computer program that has traveled to the “source” in the “real” world to rescue his “daughter” from deletion and is awaiting his ride back to the matrix. The interaction between these two characters, each belonging to the opposite worlds of the real and the virtual, in this physical “in between” reveals what discursive possibilities lie at the intersections of the two dimensions. The indistinctiveness between reality and virtuality is made increasingly apparent and seems to align itself with Baudrillard’s notion that “simulation threatens the difference between ‘true’ and ‘false,’ between ‘real’ and ‘imaginary.’” Yet there is something particularly interesting and sadly distressing at once in this scene; the fact that a simulated entity is able to feel “love”—a point that is immediately picked up by Neo, who finds it paradoxical. Responding to his dubiousness, the computer program tells Neo that “love” is not an emotion, but a “word”: a “connection.” This could signify that this connection represents the affinity between the two dimensions—which in itself reveals an original and thought-provoking idea. Unfortunately, this possibility is not investigated any further and the plot quickly jumps-cut to another high-tech, flawless action sequence.
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