anyone notice the deeper philisophical meanings in the matrix?
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Well, the movie was most definately unique in its special effects, characters and story.  I, like you, loved the first one and thought the other two trailed off.  As for a deeper philosophical meaning it is interesting to consider the fact that we may not be in control of our lives.  The world around is just an illusion and that we must have our eyes open to know real truth.
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Never thought of it that way, but your philosophy is quite accurate in my world, deep too...  Hmm, makes me wonder!
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don't know, but I agree.  I think they went in the wrong direction. At the end of the first movie, Neo tells the machine world he is going to open the eyes of the people in the matrix, and show them the truth. But all his interaction in the sequels are with people who already know the truth. I was hoping for a storyline where Neo began showing more "prisoners" of the Matrix the truth, much as Morpheus did to him in the first. Instead, it turned into an underground starwars.
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Yes, we won: Neo got rid of Agent Smith, that was the evil side of Neo trying to take over the Matrix. Because of this, the rulers of the Matrix decided to free all the humans that were still connected to it, and people and machines will go back to living together. The Architect, when he speeks to the Oracle, indicates that. You might want to rent The Animatrix, it gives background on the origin of the Matrix, and some interesting graphics.
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I think it means that the more you find out about the world the more you realize that you have less and less control. that being human dose not mean 'dominate', that the world holds a great many mysteries that we may never be able to solve.
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When you connect to the Matrix, your mind and self become a piece of computer software.\nSmith took the form of an uncontrollable virus that the Matrix couldn't pinpoint or exterminate.\nNeo was sort of a floppy disk. He let Smith fuse with him so the Matrix would eliminate Smith and, in return, grant humanity peace for the anti-virus favor.\n\nI think Neo died PHYSICALLY, but his "self", his conscious existence, lives within the construct of the Matrix.\n\nIt's like getting an unstoppable virus from your computer, letting it take over YOU, let your body die along with the virus, and continue living on by having your soul in your computer.\n\nI hope I helped.
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Stop asking such hard questions!  :-)\n\nBut depending on who you ask, not really.  For all anyone knows for sure, the person reading this is actually a brain in a jar in a lab somewhere being "fed" misinformation.   (No, the Matrix guys didn't think that up, it's been a concept since before Buddha or Socrates.)\n\nThe usual answer is that while we can't know "reality" we can make logical judgments about the ideas being fed to us in our "brain jars"\n\nRead up on Socrates, Buddhism, and maybe Existentialism for a starting place.  Or email me for a dissertation... :-)
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did you ever see the matrix.\n\nlike the oracle said, \n\n"Oracle: Do you know what that means? \n[points to a banner] \nOracle: It means know thy self. I wanna tell you a little secret, being the one is just like being in love. No one needs to tell you you are in love, you just know it, through and through."\n\npersonally, I knew I was in love because when she was not there, it hurt inside, and all I wanted was to hold her and be with her. and you just cant wait to share your day with her and listen to her and just be there. \n\nso thats my two cents
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Matrix means rows and columns. There lots of problems based on Matrix in mathematics like Determinants. \n\nThe movie matrix is sci-fi movie. Its not real.
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I can't answer most of the stuff, but the greenish hues depict being in the simulated computer world, (The Matrix). The old computer screens were known for having a green hued screen.\nCyberNara
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What exactly is the matrix? The protagonist, Neo (Keanu Reeves), discovers in the first film that the world he knows—normal life of the late 1990s—is actually a virtual reality program plugged into his brain. This computer program, or matrix, is the wool pulled over humanity's eyes. In reality, mankind is imprisoned by menacing machines that use humans for energy. Whoa.\n\nThen a group of freedom fighters waging war on the machines take Neo into the war-ravaged real world. Many of them believe Neo is their prophesied savior.\n\nThe Matrix stands apart from other pop culture franchises because the Wachowskis embed their films with philosophical questions and theories—and then refuse to talk publicly about what they mean. Fans then rabidly discuss what The Matrix is and means. They dissect dialogue, research character names, and analyze what even a room number (303) might mean.\n\nThese discussions continue in Internet chat rooms, in postmodern coffee shops, and in at least three books released in the last year. Taking the Red Pill and The Matrix and Philosophy are collections of essays written by professors, philosophers, and scientists who flesh out theories, metaphysics, and theologies glimpsed in the movie. The Gospel Reloaded argues that the film not only gets viewers thinking about master's-level philosophy but also offers insight into faith.\n\n"After decades of self-interested televangelists, it is no wonder that emerging generations yawn in the face of historic practices of faith and the authority of the church," write authors Chris Seay and Greg Garrett. "That is, until The Matrix. Neo is a savior worth considering, and his recontextualization of the gospel as a story of freeing the captives has won many new believers."
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what did u see ? \nDe Ja Vu ?\n\nIt's a glitch in the matrix.
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I think there are numerous symbolic meanings that are beneficial, but I believe it's ludicrous that some mystic force from Jupiter determines how jovial we are, etc.
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Matrix Revolutions Interpretations and Theories:\n\nInterpretations:\n\n1. The Oracle helped write the matrix - so she knows the code and can 'know' what can happen. (Including random events as she uses the same random number generatior). She also helped write the implementation process for the humans and probably just signed the\nimplemented human code with her own key, so that only she can read it (else, every other machine program could read human code and know what they were up to). So she knows how the humans inside the matrix think and act. She can predict (to an extent - not beyond their choice) the actions of the freed humans too. Thats why she is the 'Oracle'. \n\nShe Since she knows how everyone thinks/works she can easily unbalance everything. The Architect on the other hand, is the collective Avatar of the machine world within the Matrix (or of whoever controls 01). The machines need a balanced world in which they can live in, thus they also repopulate Zion after each Reload/Destruction of Zion - they need a goal, a purpose, a loop they can replay (machines without vision also perish). This although does not necessarily have to be human opponents to fight - it's just a relative easy occupation, since it usually works out well for the machines. Neo unbalanced everything a bit by going through the "wrong" door. Smith further unbalanced everything by becoming so mighty. The Oracle knows the Architect/machines need balance, and she knows they will do whatever it takes to balance out any unbalance. So she furthers the unbalance even more by becoming an entity to Smith and has herself get taken over.\n\nTherefore, Neo can negotiate peace with the machines, because the Oracle knows to what extremes the Architect would go to ensure balance. And he said himself in M2: "There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept" - that could only mean a "life" without the support of human\nenergy - but also a "life" along with the humans. Therefore by unbalancing everything, she knows the Machines/Architect would agree\neven to peace, just to reinstate a balanced world.\n\n2. Why did Neo destroy sentinels with his hands? Bceause he's the one. The Oracle said that Neo touched the Source before he was ready and that was why he could be in the train station as well as the Matrix with out being jacked in. She also alludes to his powers ( which are only the ability to manipulate data) extending to real world as a result of this. Which would imply a constant ( most likely wireless, seeing that the humans are bred to be part machine, what with the plugs and such) connection to the data world. it would be possible for Neo to manipulate data in the real world. Such as instigate a shutdown on the squiddies ( it's only a simple command right?) or issue a self-destruct command on the shrimp bombs (again, just a simple machine code command).\n\n3. How is Smith defeated /  ended (whatever the case may be) ? They are equally matched, as they are both the opposite sides of an anomoly.\nWhen Neo sees Trinity falling, he can't see whether she dies, because his choices can still affect whether she dies. But when Smith uses the Oracles eyes to see Neo lying on the ground, he assumes that he wins, thus in his arrogance he just uses one copy of himself to fight Neo. So Neo defeats him the same way he did the first time.  A little differently - he destroys him because he is the negative and he destroys the kernel but negating him. All the other smiths lose identity and get destroyed too. Also, this time he was directly connected to the machines. Rememer the swirling code and Smith's confusion when he took her over?  Nothing like that had happened before.  So when Smith starts his confused rambling about "Yes, I've seen this before.  Me standing here, you lying there.  It's about to end." he's actually using some of the Oracle's ability.  He even begin
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i think you watched the matrix way to much.
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Oh crap. Its extremely hard to explain by mere words, better if the movie was actually playing at the same time or better still, by diagrams. But here we go.\n\nDonnie was supposed to have died by the falling of the aircraft engine, by escaping it, our universe pretty much ceased to exist, and instead a "tangent universe" was created. One full of coincidence and weird revelations, designed to teach Donnie not to be afraid of his own destiny, and to manipulate him mostly without his knowledge into putting the universe right. By travelling back to the point where the engine crashed uinto his bedroom, and dying when he was supposed to. If this didnt happen, both universes would be destroyed. The tangent universe cannot exist for long, and when it would fall apart, it would take our own with it. Both versions of the movie and even the website, go into various background details, which is there if someone wishes to go into the details of the paradox of the movie. For example, Frank and Gretchen are referred to as the "manipulated dead", the rest of the people he knows are referred to as the "manipulated living", as their role in the tangent universe is to unknowingly manipulate Donnie into realising what he has to do to save everyone he loves. The universe knows it is "broken" and knowingly sets events into motion to save itself. The question is asked throughout the movie whether this is Gods work. And there is certainly a religious theme if youd like to interpret it that way. The beauty here is that the characters do not know they are being manipulated, heres some of the examples of the "coincidences" designed for Donnie to pay attention to.\n\nThe teachers reference to "cellar door", which leads Donnie to Grandma Deaths house for showdown. (funnily enough, close tot he french, c'est l'adore, but anyway...)\n\nFranks reference to "the day the world will end", repeated again when Donnie's mother is calling to say how they'll be on the red-eye flight, the airport announcement in the background says that Flight 2806 is boarding at gate 42 and leaving at 12 AM. Presumably this is the flight they're taking, and also a reference to the 28:06:42:12 countdown that Frank gives Donnie.\n\n\nThe black-and-white poster in Donnie's room, of an eye reflecting a skull, is a reproduction of an etching by the artist M.C. Escher, whos paintings invariably went full circle, "going back on themselves"\n\nDonnie and Gretchen playing the "outrun" videogame in the directors cut, driving a red ferrari, which crashes....\n\nI seriously could go on, but they are just some ive discovered that a lot of people havent noticed. There are MANY of these throught the movie. However, by far the best in depth written explanation which i also personally believe is written by someone else, which ill include here...hold your breath!:\n\nWHAT HAPPENS, AND WHEN? \nOctober 1, 1988. Donnie is on the hill, looking at the sky, laughing. He rides his bike home and goes to sleep. \n\nOctober 2, After midnight, Donnie is woken up by Frank-Bunny, saving him from a jet-engine crashing into his room. The jet-engine is actually from October 30, disappearing through a time corruption 28 days into the past. This catastrophic event distorts spacetime and creates a Tangent universe (TU). In the Tangent Universe, Frank-Bunny guides Donnie Darko on a 28 day journey through this alternate tangent dimension to save the universe: \n\nOctober 30, Tangent universe: After his journey through the TU, which we witness in the movie, the jet-engine breaks off the plane (that his mother and sister are coincidentally on), and from the Tangent universe, Donnie using a wormhole sends it back to the Primary universe (PU), giving it a reason for being. The only object that went back in time from the tangent universe to the primary universe was the jet-engine. In doing so the tangent universe
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True, u r right in this observation. Our universe is under much more scrutiny because we can see and observe a lot many things, so if we feel its complex is very obvious