Blog 2: The Matrix and How it's Related

The matrix is a dream world or an alternate reality world that we live in, and whose to say that we don't? Everything we breathe, eat, smell, and feel could be some computer program designed to make us feel like its all real.

The movie does a good job in presenting a lot of philisophical ideas, especially those from Socrates. One thing I really like about the movie is how Neo tells Morpheus that he doesn't like the idea of fate and says that he doesn't believe in the idea of not being in control of your life. Later on in the movie The Oracle tells him the bad news that he isn't "The One" Morpheus was expecting. But when he gets shot to death by an agent, he comes back to life and realizes that he is in fact The One proving the Oracle wrong.

On a nother note I think that Neo chose not to die in The Matrix, showing how he took control of his life by coming back to life. He ends with a speech about how everyone else should be free and know the truth.

Spoilers beyond this point!!!!

I can relate this idea to another movie called "Wanted". It's a crazy movie to relate to since people went to watch it for the action, I'm sure. But the movie is about a man by the name of Wesly Gibson who works at a corporate building which he hates. He doesn't know he has this inhumane ability to move incredibly fast and become practically superhuman but that later changes when he meets an Assassin named Fox and other assassins later on who pretty much frees him from his boring old repetitive life.

He becomes a killing machine by the end of the movie, and in the movie there is a lot of ideas of "fate" being tossed around and its what the Fraternity(the big assassin organization) lives by. But Wesley realizes that it's all just a bigger lie and makes the choice to destroy the Fraternity and everyone involved in it. That action sequence is probably my favorite.

In the end of the movie he says a speech about how he has taken his life back and how he has control of it and ends it with a "So what the **** have you done recently?" A kind of messed up way to make people realize the truth he sees.

Another good example is Fight Club, which is about a guy who can be related to Neo. The movie starts off with him and his usual lifestyle which looks boring. But then meets a man named Tyler Durden and from that point on, Tyler changes his life. They start an underground thing called "fight Club" so that people can just fight eachother for the hell of it and the group starts getting bigger and bigger. It eventually turns into and organization where many different people are involved including law enforcing citizens. The organization wants to "free" everyone. But eventually the man"wakes up" and realizes that he himself is Tyler Durden, the man who has created this huge organization and that the other man he's been seeing was a false representation of himself.

Kind of like the matrix when you hack in you see yourself as how you want to see yourself. Tyler was seeing the self that he wanted to see and wanted to be and in the end it turns out he was. He also frees people from their world and they joined the fight club which is like the real world in the matrix and all of them set out to destroy the corporations that these people worked under. Which is like where in the real world the people are freed from the matrix and sent out to fight the machines (like the agents).