Insights into everything about Matrix in multiple ways

Beulah 2022-04-21 09:01:04

Note: For convenience, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions are abbreviated as 2R below.

Let me analyze this kind of movie, I will probably deduce some things that other people can't understand, and even some things that I completely unexpected at first, so I can only control my own play. I saw a lot of comments watching this film through 2R, but after watching these three films in order, I found that it is not easy for me to control some aspects of 2R relative to the previous work. After checking some information, I suspect that 2R is not a It was set at the beginning but added later. So I decided to analyze the film without considering the 2R at all, and then look at some of the 2R through the film.

From a former programmer's point of view, the whole Matrix system should work like this:
the whole system is built on a huge memory. Each living individual is a running program process in this system. In addition to controlling all parameters and behaviors of the individual in the Matrix, this process is also responsible for implementing data input and output operations with its corresponding brain to achieve Its control even has the effect of determining the life and death of the brain it controls. The human brain is the program source of this process. Other inanimate things are also processes in this system. Although there is no corresponding brain, they are very important components of this system. As for Agent Smith, it is a program similar to a virus server. In this film, this kind of program is controlled by the main system (but in 2R, this kind of program is separated from the main system and becomes a kind of "virus" that is not under any control. ”), a program that can delete some processes that make the main system feel “dangerous”, and can also implant viruses into other processes to make them serve themselves. The people in Zion get in and out of the Matrix and even save the people who are troubled in the Matrix, all of which are achieved through some bugs in the system. They even need to observe the memory-mapped data to find the bug and find out the "exit" that can be used. , and even discover the "source" corresponding to the process. There's also Oracle, which seems to be something like the "system master process" (the same goes for Architect, which didn't appear until 2R).
Well, this is the end of the technical analysis. It is said that the computer in this film has developed to the point where it can think freely, but with the existing technical level, it is still difficult to imagine what the computer system will look like at that time, so this film is largely based on the existing technology. to build this system, combined with the various settings required for the film.

This film is also a kind of conception of human beings to "the world after being destroyed". In this film, when the world is destroyed, the computer becomes the main body that rules the world, while human beings are reduced to appendages, and both the mind and the body are under the strict control of the computer. But computers have not relaxed their vigilance against humans, and they are also afraid that one day humans will regain their dominance, which is why the system sends programs like Agent Smith.
In fact, what Smith said to Morpheus also poured out the limitations of the computer control of the human brain in this film, that is, the computer cannot really control and change the thinking of the human brain, they can only eliminate the processes that are not good for them. It cannot change the thinking of the brain corresponding to this process. Why the system they originally designed failed is not so much because of human nature, but because they can't edit human thinking to adapt human beings to the system they built, they can only build it according to the way humans think about problems Come up with a "social" system in which humans can easily adapt and see no flaws. It can also be seen from this that the object ruled by the computer in this film is still human, otherwise there would be no "resistance".
There are two messages that can be read here: Humanity is not extinct, and most human minds are still stuck in the late 20th century. The latter is actually a bit of a problem, because if humans (even the majority) can't see the flaws, then this society should be in constant development as it is now, and since the time has come to 2199, at this time The society is still not developing like it was 200 years ago, but it seems extremely abnormal, even if it is only a virtual society. This may be due to the limitations of the film's production age. If another such film is made in 100 years, it may be another way.
The reason Zion appears is that there are always people in the human world who express dissatisfaction or doubts about the world they live in, and fight against this world because of this feeling. In fact, it is because of these people that the world has progressed and developed, and many "revolutions" were originally launched by such people. In this film, it was precisely because such people "see through" the essence of this world through some "abnormal" phenomena in the Matrix that they eventually escaped from this world and created another world, Zion. , and try to get more people to join the world. The fact that they could use the Matrix's system loopholes to free more people from here shows that the system still has flaws in today's computer systems.

(Due to the new understanding of 2R, the original content of the 2R comment is deleted here)

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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.