Tuesday, June 08, 2004

NaView - The Matrix Revolutions

NaView The Matrix Revolutions

Today its finally over,i'm done with watching the most awaited movie in recent times .If common sense does prevail as it mostly doesn't,u'd know what movie am talking about .Most people who'll be reading this haven't yet seen the movie and i'll try not to give out a lot in that context .If you're not planning to watch the movie i'd say u stop read now .
In the original, the story was very clean and it even made sense if you accepted the basic premise of the film. In the second installment the storyline was much more confusing, but that was easy to tolerate in the context of a trilogy the second installment is supposed to leave you with unanswered questions .And the third O*e does answer ur questions,but O*ly after u've given it a lot of thought.
It begins rather slow,for the die hard fans ,and the flaws in the film can be counted with a PDA .Most critics are gonna bust this movie wide open because of some very predictable errors .I don't look at the trilogy as action oriented,rather is a romance with some amazing action .That is the twist that the Wachowski brothers added,and a perspective that most critics will never agree too .
Philosophy involves seeing the absolute oddity of what is familiar and trying to formulate really probing questions about it.That makes the trilogy a boon for My Kind
The Matrix presents a version of an old philosophical fable: the brain in a vat. A disembodied brain is floating in a vat, inside a scientist's laboratory. The scientist has arranged that the brain will be stimulated with the same sort of inputs that a normal embodied brain receives. To do this, the brain is connected to a giant computer simulation of a world. The simulation determines which inputs the brain receives. When the brain produces outputs, these are fed back into the simulation. The internal state of the brain is just like that of a normal brain, despite the fact that it lacks a VOID. From the brain's point of view, things seem very much as they seem to you and me. The brain is massively deluded, it seems. It has all sorts of false beliefs about the world. It believes that it has a VOID, but it has no VOID. It believes that it is walking outside in the sunlight, but in fact it is inside a dark lab. It believes it is O*e place, when in fact it may be somewhere quite different. Neo's situation at the beginning of The Matrix is something like this. He thinks that he lives in a city, he thinks that he has hair, he thinks it is 1999, and he thinks that it is sunny outside. In reality, he is floating in space, he has no hair, the year is around 2199, and the world has been darkened by war. There are a few small differences from the vat scenario above: Neo's brain is located in a VOID, and the computer simulation is controlled by machines rather than by a scientist. But the essential details are much the same. In effect, Neo is a brain in a vat.
Perception: Our day-in, day-out world is real.
Reality: That world is a hoax, an elaborate deception spun by all-powerful machines that control us. Whoa.
The 18th-century Irish philosopher George Berkeley held, in effect, that appearance is reality. (Recall Morpheus: "What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.")

Perceptions are unique for each individual and The Matrix capitalizes O* it by encapsulating every possible idea,equation in the movie terms,to ensure the survival of its own world,The Machines .The Matrix is receptiveness to humanity,and its weaknesses is what makes it stronger than The Humans.Every possible thing a human can understand ,and define in a set of finite parameters is used by The Machines to ensure supremacy.
We as humans cannot comprehend some things,and for the same reason The Machines,and Agent Smith cannot decipher Human values as emotions,Love,Hatred and Pain caused by either .When Neo loses Trinity, he loses his most basic desire to live .The finality of the trilogy is based O* that inability of The Machines to figure out Human Emotion .Smith can never figure out what makes Neo give up his life in a fight that he'll lose ,a consequence that he'll never experience .We as humans can never figure out why we do certain things.As Agent Smith says,The path of love is similar to the path of insanity,and it is that same insanity that separates us from Machines,rather the living from the non-living.The abilities that have been endowed upon us by the creator,and our inability to define them while making them the most crucial part of our lives.Deja-Vu for me,again i feel our inability to control and comprehend certain things is O*e of the biggest reasons we are together as a species.

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