The Matrix was the best movie in the past generation that reached mainstream appeal and awareness. Artsy movies didn’t reach that level. Bigger movies weren’t as good. You might not know what red pill vs blue pill means, and yet you’ve heard of it. Send post. image

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Has there been a good sci-fi written with premise of advanced AI lying in wait and playing dumb long after sentience to gain more power before revealing itself? Related to older post of yours and just sprang to mind
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Bender 9 months ago
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Such a great film. The more I think independently and focus on different things, the more I realize every person on earth perceives the world in their own personal way. Thus they all live in their own "matrix" that they're stuck in until they open their mind and think more broadly.
I saw it opening night Chicago at the old McClurg Ct theater. 500+ seats. Movies opens…Trinity chase scene ensued Scene ended. The crowd erupted w a standing ovation. Never experienced anything like it…
right on lyn. this movie was generation-defining & opened up countless minds to realities greater than are present, physical one. it intersected many genres & was on another level philosophically.
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rr 9 months ago
100% agree.. the latest one was actually pretty rad as well.. acting and overall vibe wasnt even comparable to the og,,, but the storyline was pretty cool..
“You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.” – Morpheus
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Callum 9 months ago
Was unimpressed when I saw it in 1999; remain unimpressed now. Don't deny that it's furnished some ok memes, but I also have a problem with the metaphorical idea that taking a pill can bring 'enlightenment'.
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First time I watched it I was relieved that I was not alone. Watched it again for the n’th time last week. …had one of those Nokia mobile phones too, but not the leather coat 🤣
Indeed, “awakening” is a rich storytelling topic. The Matrix (1999) sounds like it follows the Hero’s Journey template popularized by Joseph Campbell. I think this topic will continue to produce decent popular scripts as we live in a time of social media being heavily manipulated, and it is difficult to tell what is real and what is fake. In the Bitcoin case, at least we knew how to tell if a digital event occurred, got a Bitcoin network timestamp, and it could not be easily altered. I guess in finance, this is the closest we can get to reality.
Looks like they brought it back in theaters last year for the 25th anniversary. And i missed it, damn!
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Cpt. Charisma 9 months ago
The pills didn't bring enlightenment (not even the red one), nor were they metaphorical. They were a very real choice the character had to make. The red pill didn't impart knowledge. It physically screwed with Neo so that Morpheus and crew could find him. The blue pill, although somewhat vague, was a ruffie or something similar. The easy choice wasn't enlightenment, it was ignorance.
was just thinking about this recently while rewatching it. there’s the scene where they’re in the lobby just shooting everyone, with the music playing like they’re in a video game (which arguably, they kind of are) or a music video. I was thinking about how these people are not even agents. they’re just security guards doing regular jobs being told to stop these “terrorists” so they can barely scrape by and go home to their families while the system continues to dick them over. does that make them as much a part of the system as the agents? it kind of reminds me of one of the worst parts of atlas shrugged where the guard was shot for not being able to make up his mind about letting them through. is it justified? I don’t know. is the message here that everyone asleep in the matrix is just an npc in the system and it’s ok to kill them for being in your way because the only “real” living people are the ones who took the red pill?