Matrix's philosophy

Kiel 2022-04-23 07:01:01

It seems that from the time of taking Marxist theory classes, teachers and textbooks are educating us that "the world is a connected whole". What is the connection, how to connect, and how the connection is established, these issues are actually difficult to describe in any philosophy.

The philosophical significance of the film Matrix is ​​undoubtedly the true meaning of the film's "original". Where is the connection reflected? Zion and the matrix, one abstract and the other figurative; Zion is a real human society, although everyone says that this is a different society from the matrix, but what is the difference? Except for the lack of a hole in the back of the head, and the so-called "not being directed by the mother", he is actually the same as the people in Zion. The people in the matrix are embodied as people who are connected by the pipelines of the matrix and live in the nutrient solution. Their feelings and perceptions can be realized by the design of the matrix. Although they are in the void, their lives are very specific.

This commonality between Zion and the Matrix is ​​fully revealed in the third volume. The director's intentions are here. In the end, it is not Agent Smith who opposes, but an anti-institutional mechanism; in the end, it is not Zion or the matrix that wins, but an order in the system. As for whether this system is Zion-based or matrix-based Lord, it doesn't matter anymore.

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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.