Movies are pure dreams, fragments of humanity floating on a sea of dark images. At this point, if it's not entirely misguided that The Matrix, with its machine metaphor, leads all critics to read from a purely technical point of view, it just means that the film unfolds in all its possibilities. One of them has been chosen, and as a film narrated with human faces and images, it is necessary for us to temporarily put aside all technical difficulties and simply restore it purely from the perspective of human nature.
Among the main characters in the film, we can easily identify several personality types:
Neo: the doting. If I love you, I can give up everything.
Smith (Smith): Power maniac. I need power, and then more power.
Morpheus: Freedom Fighter. I sacrificed my life for freedom.
Prophet (Oracle): A wise man. Wisdom will lead me to the end.
Merovingian: Hedonist. The meaning of life lies in life itself.
Trinity: Mystic. I believe in you and I am willing to follow you.
Due to the mutual exclusion and closeness of these personality forms, the characters in the film have various relationships with each other.
The original meaning of Matrix is the uterus, the mother, the place where life is born, and the place where the personality is first differentiated and stereotyped. In the film, we see that the root of all problems comes from here, and the solution to the final problem also needs to come back here. As in deep psychoanalysis, it is necessary to go back to the original scene of infancy.
In the movie, the so-called rejection is not the rejection of the awakened person by the original scene, but the rejection of the original scene by people. In what sense can a so-called spectacle constitute a real spectacle? That's the original wound.
When Morpheus brought Neo to the Matrix World, the scene of the endless human battery was a spectacle, and it was filled with the mucus that the human body was soaking in—which meant the failure of symbolization and symbolization. And the failure of symbolization cannot enter the level of language and consciousness, which is a metaphor for trauma. It is the presence of trauma that leads to human beings and actions, and is the source of motivation for all actions. So the metaphor of the human battery is explained here. A similar scene is: the councilor brought Neo to Zion's power and circulation system control center, watching those huge machines running, saying that although I knew the names and functions of these machines, I didn't know at all. How do these machines work, he asked Neo what do you mean by control, Neo said control is that we can turn off the machine whenever we want, the MP is right, but after turning it off, we also All kinds of circulatory systems on which to survive are lost. The same possibility is presented here, both as our trauma determines our personality and as the context in which our existence and actions unfold. We cannot imagine a world without trauma. On the human body, the place where this trauma exists is: the plug - there is a plug on the head, which can be re-connected to the Matrix, that is, it can be returned to the original situation through the trauma.
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