Ignorance is happiness?

Garret 2022-04-22 07:01:02

In fact, many science fiction films are philosophical films. People imagine a scene to examine a philosophical issue. How should human beings choose between cruel truth and illusory beauty? The blue pill or the red pill, which one do you choose?

As a person with free will, it is the most basic dignity to be able to choose to live in the real world instead of the world arranged by others. The arranged life, no matter how beautiful it is, we will still resent it. After all, we are human!

In "The Wonderful Flower", a rich second generation came to complain that he was tired of his life, because he wanted to live as his father expected, because his life had been arranged by his father. Seeing these, will we still envy these rich second generation? A free life is better than a rich life.

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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.