Time-honored films, long-awaited but never had the opportunity to watch. Taking the opportunity of a coursework, I finally watched it like a pilgrimage, and then in the dormitory in the early morning, I felt chills and shocks swept away step by step.
Amazing.
The smooth editing makes it an excellent action movie even without the sci-fi setting. The integration of sci-fi elements, the rolling code on the old-fashioned desktop, and the fake virtual reality equipment, it is completely impossible to see that it is a work from 20 years ago, which makes it even without the core of philosophical thinking, it has become an excellent film. sci-fi movie.
But the reason why this film can become a masterpiece is that it will always return to its philosophical discussion of "truth". Due to the fact that the elements of action films are more and more prominent in the middle and late stages of the film, this ideological core is suspected of gradually weakening; however, the scene after the proposition of "brain in a vat" depicted by it has been concretized and realized, making people feel for a long time. Unforgettable. When the protagonist wakes up in the Matrix, he finds himself covered with all kinds of cannulas, and in front of him is a dark, hissing grand structure, terrifying, electric and flint, and he was just in this structure. A vague and complex molecule, with no uniqueness, no name, no freedom, and no consistency - that scene really made me cover my mouth and couldn't help but want to scream and sigh. I have long known that the setting is similar to this setting, but what the incomparably real concrete scene brings to people is a completely different experience with a simple philosophical proposition that only exists in reason. That's why this movie is consecrated.
This unsolvable proposition has been continuously discussed since it was put forward, but there has never been a universal answer. That is, what exactly is "true"? And, choose the red or blue pill?
Morpheus said in the film that in order to discuss truth, we must first define it. If the real is defined as sensible, touchable, audible, olfactory and visible, then the world in the Matrix is "real". But "truth" does exist outside that "real" world. That is, the real is not necessarily the truth. In the film, the senses tell us that the Matrix is true, but the truth provided by Morpheus tells us that the Matrix is false, so the audience knows that what seems to be true may not be the truth. But further, if you look beyond the film, you will find that we don't even know why what Morpheus said is the truth. As a work of art, it can't go on with more layers of the same routine, it will be lengthy and meaningless; but as a philosophical thinking, you can go on forever, and then find that as long as we don't give a positive form to "true" The definition of , but just negatively say that "sensory perception alone cannot be judged as true", then we will never be able to truly stand in a place that is ultimately considered "true", because human senses can always deceive themselves. Since ancient times, there has been the saying of Zhuang Zhou dreaming of butterflies - humans can't even distinguish between dreams and wakings, so how can we judge the truth.
In the film, we have at least one "seemingly conclusive" evidence to prove that the Matrix world is false: the laws of physics in it are not firm and can be broken, as long as you have enough firm imagination and belief to convince yourself: "There's no spoon." This is a very interesting setting: people's perception of many constraints does not originate from the constraints themselves, but from inherited, or "learned", "beliefs" in constraints. Like the placebo effect, conscious beliefs can often influence the body. Humans extract experience from experience, and at the same time get into the shackles of experience. Therefore, there is Hume's skepticism, saying that all laws with universality do not exist, only the occurrence of one by one, discontinuous events; the sun rises thousands of times can not prove the inevitability of the next sunrise. However, if there are only such thousands of scattered and messy events in front of us, and there is absolutely no law and experience from which to emerge, then it would not be like being thrown into a sea of clutter, with no path to follow, no lighthouse to look forward to. The absurdity of the world as perceived by humans lies in its random and aimless quality. If the existence of regularity is completely abandoned, perhaps human beings will suffer more from the pain of "loss of meaning" than "loss of truth".
Humans are children of meaning. The search for truth, at its core, is still the search for meaning—we tend to think that things that are not true are meaningless. When the protagonist learns of Matrix's "fake", when he sees the road he has traveled and the restaurants he has eaten in, he will feel that the things he has pursued and loved at that time have been eclipsed and are no longer worth holding in his hands. But why? Why does it only make sense if it is real? Why isn't it enough to seek a subjective "belief"? Why keep trying to seek the so-called "truth" that exists objectively (perhaps not at all)? I feel that this property of humans seeking "meaning" and tying "meaning" to "truth" is largely what makes humans human. Otherwise, we wouldn't be looking up at the stars and taking small but solid efforts toward the unknown.
But in my personal opinion, I don't think this should be a common pursuit of mankind. I even thought that I would choose the blue pill myself. As long as you can forget the "false", you can continue to believe in the "true" and continue to live a meaningful life. There's no particularly essential difference between "seemingly true" and "really being true" -- when you can't tell the difference between the two. In the final analysis, meaning itself is also given to itself by human beings, and the world itself has no meaning. No matter whether you live in the real world or the world of Matrix, people are born, old, sick, and die. What really matters is what you believe in yourself. Some people believe in the sea of stars, while others believe in firewood, rice, oil and salt. Some believe in freedom fraught with danger of death, while others believe in life in bondage. Some people are willing to be a creature, hope that fate exists, want to surrender to a stronger force, and don't like to be exposed in the air and have no restraints; some people never accept their fate, as long as they limit free will, they will go to whatever it is. smash. But most people are somewhere in between. We can think and talk about a lot of philosophical propositions, but we don't really think they're life-threatening. We are still content with the current life and the road within sight, nine to five, sunset and moonrise.
After all, this is the only reality we have right now.
——It is enough to use real, we will not talk about truth today.
The real may not be real.
The real must be real.
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