Fun headcanon idea: Morpheus is perfectly capable of explaining the idea of the Matrix but he avoids it to avoid the inevitable "what's the outside like" question.
Neo decides that uncomfortable knowledge is better than blissful ignorance. I think most adults have had experiences where they wish they could go back to being less informed about the cruelty and brutality of the world and just live in ignorance, but most people don't get that choice.
Morpheus asks Neo if he wants to live in blissful ignorance (the way Cypher eventually decides to do) or if he wants to deal with the uncomfortable reality. Part of being a computer hacker is that quest for knowledge for no real gain despite the risks.
...Did Neo have an active social life? Admittedly I haven't seen the movie in forever, but IIRC he didn't have much going on other than work and being a hacker.
He followed the white rabbit so he could stand in the corner of a rave.
And then speaks to one girl and promptly falls in love with her.
feels seen
So, as Cypher made clear, the main draw of the matrix was that he didn't have to spend his entire life being miserable, with shit to eat, and nothing enjoyable to do. Soo... What about the constructs? If they could simulate people and sensory input with enough fidelity to "learn kungfu", couldn't they simulate the experience of a juicy steak? Why, when they weren't actually spending their time outside the matrix doing much other than sitting in a spaceship, wouldn't they just spend 6 hours a day in the construct (again, not the matrix, their own simulated construct)? Wouldn't that have given them all much more practice with breaking the construct of the matrix, and also let them have the nice stuff that the matrix offered, and also knowing that they were the masters of their own destinies? It seems like Morpheus was just a shitty manager, and Cypher was unfulfilled in his job.
It's an excellent point, but that would only work for those awoken. The "genuine children of zion" have no ports.
Cypher explicitly states he doesn't want to remember ANYTHING.
Going into a construct doesn't remove your memories, so he KNOWS it's all fake, which means it doesn't carry any weight or meaning to it all.
Having his memory wiped is the only way.
A great point, but I wonder if it would have reached that point if cypher had been given relaxation time and good experiences in the construct from the start.
Work life balance 🤣
you know you can't resist those eyes
yeah I mean that was one of the themes explored in the film
The Matrix hits different once you realize everything was humanity’s fault
" hits different once you listen to what the characters say" is truly a take
Let people grow, man.
fair actually
if you know something i don't you are a nerd and if you don't know something i know then you are an idiot
We fucked up, but it wasn't because we blackend the sky,
Humans made the machines
Machines failed enslave us properly :)
We failed to put in proper safeguards and failed to make the machines good enough to either wipe us out or contain us with proper safeguards :)
It’s been said a million times that the human battery thing makes no sense in terms of energy production. But the other huge sin the Matrix commits is having humans block out the sun so robots can’t get solar power. That is ridiculously stupid. Humans need to grow crops. I rest my case. It’s stupid. I love these movies, but that part is just plain stupid.
There's conflicting stories about it so it's hard to verify, but apparently the battery thing was a rewrite.
Apparently originally the people plugged into the matrix were meant to be the very hardware the matrix was run on. As in all their brains together formed a literal neural network that provided the processing power to run the matrix. This is then why knowing it's not real and believing you can do "the impossible" within the matrix can cause you to be able to bend reality. The story goes that executives thought it was too high of a concept for audiences to grasp and demanded the change to the battery explanation to make it simpler to follow.
The Matrix is a trans allegory. Living in a cave and eating slop is an allegory for being fired because of transphobia.
Still worth it.
The Matrix is a Rambo 3 remake. Living in a cave and eating slop is an allegory for shooting explosive arrows into a bridge.
Still worth it.
but also the rave orgies.
Red pill side effects include cave raves, bad clothes, and new zionism
I remember his office from the movie. It was not comfy.
He had his own cubicle. Better than any of the "open plan" offices I spent years working in.
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