What philosophical thoughts does "The Matrix" express?

Maia 2022-03-22 09:01:03

I have to tell everyone at the beginning that this movie is a tribute to the thinking of the late French philosopher Baudrillard by the Banjoski brothers. Many of them quote his thoughts and words, but they are planning to invite Baudrillard. When I was a film consultant, I was rejected because Baudrillard said that the two of them didn't understand what I wanted to express.

If you have the opportunity, you can read Baudrillard’s books, such as "Simulation and Simulation", whose main content is the denial of the things that exist in the world, thinking that they are all a kind of parody, we are in There is no truth about the era of ‘’s, it’s all nothingness presented by a mirror image. This is a very empty environment where there is no salvation and creation. So when I saw that the protagonist was going to save mankind in the maternal world, he had already The original intention was biased, and they still firmly believe that there is a savior. From this initial point of view, the film is obviously a bit like a tiger but not a dog. Excluding the so-called matrix and the knot of technological revolution, it still has something for people in essence. Certainly misleading and blind band.

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The Matrix quotes

  • [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]

    Neo: Whoa. Déjà vu.

    [Everyone freezes right in their tracks]

    Trinity: What did you just say?

    Neo: Nothing. Just had a little déjà vu.

    Trinity: What did you see?

    Cypher: What happened?

    Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just like it.

    Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?

    Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.

    Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!

    Neo: What is it?

    Trinity: A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.

  • [on the war that devastated the Real World]

    Morpheus: We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power. It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun.