This is the third one in a series of film reviews. Since the second and third two of The Matrix are closely linked to the same story, I commented on them together, and because many key points are in the plot, I want to tell a summary of the story. .
Synopsis
The story took place 6 months after the first installment. The spacecraft [Pluto] discovered a large number of robotic octopuses and drilling rigs. They were preparing to attack Zion. Before they were chased and destroyed by the octopus, some information was sent back. Commander Zion recalled all the spaceships to defend. Murphys wanted to leave a ship outside and waited for the prophet's message. Everyone opposed it. Only one captain expressed support for Murphys.
At this time, Neo was already omnipotent, flying in the matrix like Superman, Neo flew to the prophet's house, where people had gone to empty buildings, and could only return to Zion.
The audience saw Zion for the first time, this human resistance base located deep underground. Commander Locke was very angry at Murphys's violation of the order. The two quarreled, and the Harman member of the Zion Assembly relieved Murphys.
At the grand rally in Zion, Murphys' impassioned speech inspired the people's enthusiasm for the war. Hundreds of thousands of seeds of resistance who fled from the matrix indulged in singing and dancing deep in this hot underground. Neo and Trinity hid in the room. Hurt each other, this couple in love will not let go of any lingering opportunities.
The spacecraft that stayed behind received the Prophet’s message, but two people in the matrix were hunted by Smith, one escaped with the message, and the other was caught by Smith. Smith inserted his hand into his body and copied another Smith. , And then answered the phone and sent it back to the spaceship. This is a very important plot point in the movie. Many people do not understand why programs can invade human thoughts. This is actually the same as Neo’s dual attributes.
Neo enters the matrix alone to meet the Prophet, and meets [Seraph] in a Tang suit in a Chinese restaurant. Neo sees that his code is golden, which is obviously a program. Seraphim confirmed through the fight that he was facing the Savior, and then took him to see the Prophet. Neo has discovered that the prophet is also a procedure, and thus questioned the prophet's motives for guiding mankind, but the prophet's words still made him difficult to resist.
The prophet revealed an important message. In the world of machines, every program has a purpose. Some programs need to be deleted due to renewal and other reasons, and a very small number of programs are unwilling to die. They will be exiled to the matrix. And more importantly, the savior must return to the source of the program in order to save Zion, but to return to the source, he must first find the key person to open the locksmith. He is controlled by a powerful program, the French [Merovingian] Now, Neo wants to rescue him.
Smith came at this time, and he was now powerful enough to invade any program in the matrix at will, even an agent. He also wanted to invade Neo, but of course he didn't succeed. Then Neo showed the super stick method, but there were too many Smiths, and Neo flew away like Superman.
Neo, Murphys, and Trinity entered the matrix to find the Frenchman Merovin. This old program has been nagging causality and is not friendly. It also looks for women in front of his wife. Of course Meroving’s wife I was angry and said that he could take Neo to find the locksmith, but if he wanted Neo to kiss him affectionately, just like kissing Trinity, Neo could only agree, and the deal was concluded and Neo rescued the locksmith.
At this time Meroving came with people, and a big battle was inevitable. Meroving was surrounded by some exiled programs, all with special skills, guns did not work on the savior, so eighteen weapons took turns in battle, Neo killed all the exiled programs, failed to catch Meroving, and turned his head. When chasing Morpheus again, he inadvertently broke into the mountains 500 kilometers away.
Murphys and Trinity ran away with the locksmith, and the ghost brothers chased and killed them all the way, hitting the highway. This is the most exciting part of the second part. Agents of the Matrix have also joined the battle. The priority of the agents is to capture the exile program. The Ghost Brothers must also capture the locksmith. Murphys and Trinity face two pressures. Obi arrived in time to help, but in the end he couldn't escape. The agents manipulated two large trucks to collide head-on. Murphys and the locksmith were at stake, and Neo Superman flew over and rescued them.
In the real world, hundreds of thousands of robotic octopuses are preparing to attack Zion. Time is short, and the savior must return to the source as soon as possible to find the answer. The locksmith knew that there was a building that could be returned to the source, but the normal power supply and the backup power must be cut off at the same time. The savior had 5 minutes to enter the door of the source, so the soldiers split into three actions. Trinity in Neo’s dream was dead. In that building, Neo asked Trinity not to take part in the operation. But one of the spaceships was destroyed by the robot octopus bomb, and everyone who entered the matrix died. To ensure that Neo could enter the source, Trinity still entered the matrix. Neo finally entered the source and met the matrix designer.
According to the designer, this generation of matrices is already the sixth generation. The initial design of the matrix was not perfect, but the human mind could not accept it, which led to the collapse of the matrix. After continuous improvement, a program responsible for perception, the prophet, unintentionally discovered a problem. As long as humans are given the right to choose, most of them will be stable in the matrix, and only less than 1% are alternatives. , There will always be doubts about the authenticity of the matrix world, and the designer will concentrate these people in Zion, just to eliminate the unstable factors of the matrix.
No matter how hard the designer works, there will always be more unbalanced factors in the matrix system, and the savior is a collection of these unbalanced factors, that is, every generation of matrix will produce a savior. When the savior appears, it is time for the system to be upgraded. A large number of octopuses will be sent to destroy Zion, and the savior must carry all the unstable code and return to the source of the program to restart the matrix system. In exchange, the savior can choose 23 people to rebuild Zion. This is the origin of the legend of the savior in the world of Zion. So this is actually another way of control. Zion is not a real place of freedom, equivalent to the matrix system. "Recycle Bin".
The designer strongly persuades Neo to choose to restart the system, that is, to abandon the current Zion and Trinity, otherwise the failure of the savior will lead to the collapse of the matrix world, plus Zion is annihilated, mankind will be completely extinct. Neo ignored the designer's threat and insisted on choosing to enter another door to save his lover Trinity, which surprised the designer.
Neo flew quickly, rescued Trinity who had been shot down from the building, directly inserted his hand into the heart of the code, and rescued Trinity. Returning to the spaceship, Neo explained the situation to Murphys. Zion was just another control method, Murphys didn't believe it. At this time, the robotic octopus chased and killed him. Neo sensed the remotely launched bomb and reminded everyone to evacuate. The spaceship was blown up. In the real world, Neo actually killed a few octopuses with his mind like a bullet in the real world, and then fell into it. coma.
Another spacecraft guarding Zion, the Hammer, arrived and rescued Murpheus. The captain of the Hammer talked about another accident. Several spacecraft were defending in the Zion main line. Someone did not activate the electromagnetic pulse weapon as planned. At that time, they destroyed 5 spacecraft in Zion, which means that Zion has no spacecraft at all. Participated in the defense, and Smith, who apparently started the electromagnetic pulse, was also in a coma.
Neo woke up at a train station and met Shati and his parents, a small program from Robot City, only to realize that this was the back door of Robot City to the matrix. It was managed by the French train man. Neo was trapped in Here it is.
Murphys and Trinity went to see the Prophet and found that the Prophet had changed his appearance. The Prophet told Murphys that Neo was imprisoned by the French and asked Seraphim to help them rescue Neo. The French are of course not that easy to talk, and they can only solve it by force. Trinity rescued Neo, but the people on the spacecraft could not recognize Neo's code. Obviously, the program of the savior had changed a lot.
Neo went to see the Prophet again. This conversation solved all the questions so far. The savior's power is not only in the matrix, but also has high authority in the machine city, so he can resist the octopus. Matrix designers are typical machine logical thinking, always trying to balance equations to maintain the stability of the matrix, but this generation of saviors is too powerful, the consequences of wanting to balance, produce strong negatives like Smith, and now it has reached the point where it is out of control. . The prophet told Neo that he must return to the machine city lord program to finally save Zion, but also to save machine civilization.
After Neo left, Smith assimilated the Prophet, Seraphim and the Prophet tried their best to protect, and the machine city applet Shati did not let it go. He almost controlled the entire matrix.
Neo, who woke up on the spaceship, asked to drive a spaceship to the machine city. Everyone thought it was a death. Naobi gave his spaceship to Neo, and then drove the Hammer back to save Zion. As soon as Neo and Trinity set off, Smith, who was hiding in the spaceship, appeared and blinded Neo. The blind savior can still see Smith, not code, but light. After the Smith clone was killed, Neo and Trinity continued to rush to the machine city.
On the other side, Naobi rushed back to Zion through the engineering pipeline with superb driving skills and released his only electromagnetic pulse weapon, but Zion also lost almost all defensive capabilities. The last hope lies in the savior. Body.
Neo and Trinity broke through the clouds to see the sun, and finally reached the core of the machine city, but the spaceship went out of control and crashed, Trinity sacrificed, Neo faced the master of the machine alone, negotiated a deal, and Neo entered the matrix to eliminate Smith, the machine Octopus stopped attacking Zion.
In the final battle, Neo faced hundreds of millions of Smiths alone, and Smith, who was confident, chose to use the strongest replica of the Prophet to fight against Neo. In the end, Neo was still lost. Smith issued a declaration of victory, saying that it was the Prophet. What he said, "Everything has a beginning and an end", scared him, and then angrily assimilated Neo, Neo no longer resisted, the machine city injected energy into Neo's body, Smith turned into ten thousand rays of light, collapsed and disappeared. Up. The matrix restarted successfully, and the robotic octopus attacking Zion also retreated.
The designer met with the prophet and promised to give freedom to humans who want to leave the matrix, and the new matrix world is no longer a digital green, Shati created clouds in the sky, and the movie ended.
Beyond dualistic thinking
The two plots are all finished, of course, it is a very general way. Friends who are really interested, it is recommended to watch the original film to appreciate the details. Some things cannot be described in words, especially a large number of action scenes and special effects. What can be guaranteed is, Although more than ten years have passed, compared with the current movies, this series is still extremely technically superior.
The second most exciting part is the highway chase. In order to film this scene, a few kilometers of highway was specially built and more than 300 real cars were used. Then, before shooting, it was simulated with animation. All the actions created a precedent for "virtual shooting" and fully achieved the director's rhetoric of "end all car chase scenes", and no one has surpassed it so far. And the most exciting of the third part, of course, is the defense of Zion, the scene is very hot and tragic. There is also the final battle between Neo and Smith, which ended all the two-person duel scenes. If any friend thinks which movie is beyond the duel, please leave a message and recommend it.
Regarding the truth of the matrix, I believe that the matrix designer has said it very clearly, so I will not repeat it, but pay attention to one detail. From the beginning to the end, I did not say whether the purpose of building the matrix is to generate electricity. On the contrary, it is obvious that the machine can be seen. Traces of civilization evolution. Movies go beyond dualistic thinking. Most people watch movies to distinguish who is good and who is bad. According to the plot of the first one, they may think that the machine is bad and the Zion humans are positive. When we discover that the prophet that guides mankind is the program, the matrix world suddenly becomes complicated. The program of the machine world is mixed with a lot of humane things, and the program is good or bad. This is the typical yin in the yang and the yang in the yin. .
Use graphics to understand plot structure
First of all, I personally think that in the latter two films, there is no change in the real world, but there are many new elements in the virtual world. There is a source node between the main program of the machine city and the matrix network. The designer is the "father of the matrix" from the machine city. He designed the matrix. The prophet is also a high-level program from the machine city and is called the "mother of the matrix." , But her attitude towards the matrix is completely different. The Frenchman Merovin’s base is very special. It lies between the matrix and the machine’s main program. The machine city’s program smuggled here through the train station. The matrix restarted five times but failed to kill Merovin, indicating that he can be independent of Meroving. The matrix exists, and the most important thing is that the machine city master program is a real society. If the power is not restarted, there is no way to completely delete Meroving.
Why would anyone think that Zion is also virtual? Because Neo can destroy the octopus in the real world, and can see Smith and the machine world if he is blind, and the movie does not give a perfect explanation. I personally don't want to argue about anything, because the sisters of the driver have said that the Matrix series is an open ending, and you can think of anything.
We assume that Zion is virtual, so what kind of figure will it be? First of all, the machine city and the machine main program are necessary. In order for the humans in Zion to think that they are in the real world, it is necessary to simulate a super-large fake earth and also have a virtual matrix entity, so that the humans in Zion think that they are themselves Really rescued mankind. If you can do it, you don’t even need a matrix entity, because everything can be simulated in a computer, so why bother to make a matrix entity. Feeding hundreds of millions of human embryos also requires energy, and without the matrix entity, there is The advantage is that it can accelerate the evolution, just like playing a game like "Plague Company", speed up the matrix program, and see when it crashes.
From the graphic, I don’t see if it can be established. Then there is the biggest question. If Zion is virtual, the main program of the machine is in an absolutely safe position, and the matrix and Zion are under the control of the main program. Any loss, on the contrary, is safe and energy-saving, Smith will not pose any threat, and Neo’s negotiations have no value in exchange, and the logic of the movie collapses.
Let's talk about matrix power generation. What's very strange is that Murphys only said once about "power generation" from beginning to end, but no one mentioned it later. If you want to generate electricity, the matrix must be an entity. Hundreds of millions of human embryos need nourishment. This system itself consumes a lot of energy. Then the matrix system crashed several times, the last time it almost jeopardized the main program of the machine to crash. It is really too dangerous to play like this. Why not develop a nuclear power plant and the machine is not afraid of nuclear leakage?
So I think that the purpose of setting up the matrix is more to help the evolution of machine civilization.
First of all, machine civilization comes from human civilization. All the original data were compiled when humans began to manufacture robots. Although machines later developed more advanced AI, AI's thinking ability is based on mathematical logic. The prophet once despised the designer, saying that he would only maintain the balance of the equation, and the prophet just wanted to break the balance.
Analyze the program of Prophet from some details. For example, she likes to bake cookies and eat sweets. Is a wise program a foodie? Obviously she is consciously experiencing human perceptual thinking. For another example, she tried her best to guide Neo and Trinity's love. Love is something that machines don't have. How does the program fall in love?
Later, there was really a program that fell in love, and gave birth to a small program, Shati, the Indian couple at the train station. Why did they send their children to the Prophet? Because in the world of machines, programs are all useful, and useless programs are data redundancy and must be deleted. The prophet believes that the machine world according to the mathematical logic norms will not have any significant development, so he strives to learn human perceptual thinking. It was discovered from the movie that the Prophet’s protection of the small program Shati even surpassed him, because Shati is the crystallization of the evolution of machine civilization. Why is it set to be Indian? In Indian mythology, Shati is the wife of the god of creation, Shiva.
We must know that human creativity, at the beginning, useless things, such as music, painting, literature, etc., have gradually developed into an extremely prosperous civilization. Machines can do many things that humans cannot do, but they cannot understand. The chaotic thinking of the human brain, so the prophet deliberately saved some human children with special thinking, such as the kid playing with a spoon, and finally sent to Zion, in order to protect the creativity of human thinking and improve machine civilization.
In summary, from the logic of the movie, the Matrix series is that the prophet directed a dangerous game, which fundamentally changed the restart of the matrix system from generation to generation, giving a qualitative leap in machine civilization. The so-called matrix revolution and fate are actually the revolution and fate enhancement of machine civilization, and at the same time, it also gives mankind limited freedom. Even from the standpoint of human beings, it is not a complete tragedy. The positioning of the prophet is not a humanized program, but a creation god . The name of the prophet’s bodyguard [Seraph] is the [Seraph] in the Bible and the highest position among the messengers of God, one of the Seraphims. head.
Based on my personal experience of watching movies, it is not advisable to enter too deeply into a movie if it is too complicated. It is easier to understand the intention of creation by using the perspective of God when appropriate to examine the logical structure of the movie. Are there any loopholes in the movie? If you have to use film lens and dialogue to explain the film itself, it will be like a matrix system, which can never be balanced.
So beyond the framework of the plot, what exactly does the creator want to express?
The development of AI is almost an unstoppable trend. On the one hand, human beings need machines to replace heavy and dangerous work. On the other hand, they have expressed concerns about intelligent AI. Many sci-fi works are very pessimistic. The Matrix is not limited to this level, but a bold assumption. Machines have evolved civilizations that surpass humans. On the other hand, looking at the relationship between machines and humans, this reversal is not simply "anti-anthropocentrism". A lot of philosophical thinking is formed, and an open ending is formed, the purpose of which is to arouse thinking. Since the film’s launch, it has been discovered that critics based on the film itself have many criticisms, believing that it is nothing more than a gorgeous no-brain action film. Instead, realistic philosophers admired the film so much and made a generation of magical films.
There are a lot of metaphors about religion and philosophy in the movie, and friends who like it can slowly dig into it.
For example, the name Trinity refers to the Trinity of Christianity, that is, the Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Buddhism says that the Buddha has three bodies: Dharmakaya, Samsakaya, and Correspondence. The Tathagata refers to the Dharmakaya Buddha. There are also philosophers who recorded commentary audio tracks for DVDs who proposed that Zion represents the human body, the matrix represents the mind, and the machine city represents the soul. 250,000 robotic octopuses correspond to 250,000 Zion humans. In fact, lost souls are attacking the body. Only the trinity of body and mind can become a complete personality. I mentioned in the interpretation of "Blade Runner 2049" that one of the core of 2049 is whether AI has a soul, and some friends think that AI cannot have a soul, probably because it confuses thought and soul. Then movies like The Matrix are basically Just can't watch.
Another example is the thinking about "reality" mentioned in the first part, which quoted a passage from Murphys:
"What is reality? How do you define "reality"? If you mean something that you can feel, smell, taste, and see, then "reality" is nothing more than an electrical signal produced by your brain."
Let’s look at Buddhism again, a paragraph from the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra:
Therefore, the sky is colorless, without feeling, thinking, and knowing, without eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body, without color, sound, fragrance, and touch, without vision, or even unconsciousness. . .
Is there something in common? It's not that I have to draw Christianity and Western philosophy to Buddhist scriptures, but Buddhism is relatively easier to understand for Chinese people, and its spiritual connotations are very similar.
The kid who twisted the spoon said to Neo: "Don't think about twisting the spoon, it's yourself that twists, it doesn't exist at all."
This is a quotation from the story of Huineng, the sixth ancestor of Zen Buddhism. Huineng heard a monk say that "the flag is moving" and another monk said that "the wind is moving", but Huineng said, "It is not the flag that is moving, nor is the wind moving. , The heart is moving".
When talking about the evolution of humans, a lot of it comes from useless things.
"Uselessness" is "Zhuangzi. There is a famous allusion in "The World of Humans", a big tree grows for thousands of years and can cover a few acres of land. Because the wood is not usable, the logging people don't even look at it. Zhuangzi then said that what is useless is a great use.
In the movie, the machine civilization decides whether to delete a program by judging whether it is useful or not, which virtually limits creativity. In the real human world, there are success studies everywhere. The criterion for evaluating people is whether they have money or not, and making friends must be measured. Whether it is good for oneself or not is the same phenomenon.
The director said in an interview, the golden glow of the third section titles, is to simulate the Big Bang, when I saw that article came to understand, the director is thinking evolution of civilization from the size of the universe , a world of God is difficult Understand. Being able to put these seemingly unrelated things into the movie is destined to be difficult for most people to understand. This is also the charm of the movie.
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