Freedom, what is freedom?

Adolf 2021-10-13 13:05:32

I regained my "good" habit of staying up late to watch movies on weekends. The reason why I have to stay up late is to have the same people in the dormitory sleep. After a quiet period, you can close the curtains and turn off the lights, just like your own mini theater, holding your computer to watch a movie. The advantages are obvious: you are not easily disturbed, you can devote yourself to watching movies, and you can enjoy them... The disadvantage is that after watching an action movie, it basically means you can only stay overnight.

When "The Matrix" was released, I had almost no liking for action movies, and I hated watching those fights and kills, so even though I knew that the movie was very popular, I never watched it. After the addition, the dubbing version of LYP said that the handsome Neo suddenly became "bad", and there was no desire to watch it.

To a certain extent, certain changes affect the whole body. This semester starts, let’s not say anything else, first bought the Matrix trilogy and came back to see it. The Collector's Edition, with a lot of additional content... The problem is... I need a DVD player to look good, so let's talk about it when I get home. It's easy to catch a weekend night that doesn't have to be up early the next morning, so I decided to take advantage of the dormitory's people to sleep and watch it. As a result, dude, don't want to sleep tonight, so let's write a film review.

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Without Du Che’s "Transformers-the externalization of the matrix, the history of the evolution of machine civilization after the Matrix" ( Http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_571ca59301000912.html ) For this post, it is probably impossible for me to remember to watch the movie Matrix. Even more because I got spoilers to some extent, and I probably know the overall plot. Therefore, when I started watching the movie, I didn't regard it as an action movie; instead, I saw it as a lively movie with philosophical significance.

Have you ever felt that when you wake up one day, it seems that something is wrong in your life, but after thinking about it carefully, you can’t think of a reason; or, looking at everything in your life, you always feel strange , Do you not belong to it? At the beginning of Matrix's story, this is actually the case.

It seems that everything is wrong, it seems that something is going wrong, it seems...you feel a weirdness. Soon after, you were told that, in fact, you have been living in a dream. The real world is so cruel, cold, and decisive...

Regarding the plot of Matrix, I don’t want to say too much, because at this time, it’s not Mars anymore. Or Pluto’s problem, it’s already a problem with Alpha Centauri (the next planet Cybertron). But what made me contemplate was what Sefer, the villain and harlequin in the first part, said to the heroine Tritini. He knows what is reality and what freedom is, but he is unable to bear the pressure of this reality and freedom. For this reason, he would rather give up this freedom, give up the reality and turn to the virtual, and give up the things that enslave him and use him. (Although Hugo Wavin's acting skills are quite good, but as far as the plot is concerned, it is impossible to call him a "person") Compromise and voluntarily enjoy this kind of slavery and deception-a very high level of deception.

If a person gives up his self-consciousness, freedom, and reality, then he will no longer be a person. He is just a part of a huge machine, a battery, insignificant, throw away after use. In "Escape from Freedom", a term is also mentioned: mechanical convergence. People are born free, but this freedom is just a passive freedom. When a person realizes this kind of freedom, his original bond with the entire world is completely severed, and his original life as a member of the community is also interrupted. As a result, he will feel lonely, fearful, and helpless...

Most of us respond in the first place: escape, escape from this fearful freedom, and find a group to integrate into it again. So there is no need to fear or fear anymore. However, this kind of "integration" is only an escape from freedom. Their insecurities have not been resolved, but they have followed them like a shadow. This kind of insecurity afflicts them all the time, making them continue to "fit into" more groups and try to gain a sense of security. This kind of attempt appears again and again, and becomes more and more serious. It will eventually lead to people. The mental breakdown is complete.

Fortunately, we have a strong self-protection function. We can persuade ourselves that we have become a member of a certain group while we try to "integrate", and let us go through fire and water for this group. The fire and sea under the mountains will not hesitate to use as evidence to prove our unity and strength. And this mechanism will make us laugh at people who cannot "fit in", make them feel embarrassed, and convince us that we are healthy.

But in fact, this false sense of integration is like a high tower built on sand, which looks gorgeous and solid, but in fact it is extremely easy to be torn down. In this process, man not only loses his own freedom, but also loses his own sense of autonomy, making himself a part of the whole machine, and he is also complacent about it. I think the "screw" spirit that we have been teaching for a long time is basically such a requirement.

Materialism is actually a terrible philosophical point of view, especially when materialism is generalized. Because when we find ourselves facing the world is so small and insignificant, such a drop in the ocean, this sense of powerlessness will instantly take root in our hearts, and it makes us look for all the authority that can be surrendered and obeyed, and find a capable person. A refuge to give yourself a sense of security-even if it is a prison. Although people are not the core of the universe; but everyone is really the core of their own small world. If a person is willing to give up this idea and would rather live for others than just live for himself, then this is really the sorrow of being a fully autonomous creature.

Freedom, what is freedom? You believe that you are the core of your own world; believe that as long as you "think" and work hard in this world, there is always a chance of success; believe that no one in this world can restrain you; believe that in this world you can rely on My own efforts reintegrate with the whole world and not just "integrate" into certain small groups (no matter how large a social group is, it can only be regarded as a small group compared to the entire human race); I believe that I can take the initiative to go. Pursue freedom rather than exchange for some "happy" life at the cost of freedom...In this way, it can be called happiness.

However, how many people dare to pursue and bear the cruel reality behind such happiness?

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Extended Reading

The Matrix quotes

  • Morpheus: Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.

  • Morpheus: The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.

    [Neo's eyes suddenly wander towards a woman in a red dress]

    Morpheus: Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?

    Neo: I was...

    Morpheus: [gestures with one hand] Look again.

    [the woman in the red dress is now Agent Smith, pointing a gun at Neo's head; Neo ducks]

    Morpheus: Freeze it.

    [Everybody and everything besides Neo and Morpheus freezes in time]

    Neo: This... this isn't the Matrix?

    Morpheus: No. It is another training program designed to teach you one thing: if you are not one of us, you are one of them.