The news of the “Matrix 4” shooting since the exposure has aroused a thousand layers of waves attracted a lot of fans to talk about, after many years, this time the directors will focus on the “Matrix 4” story in matrix 7.0, so we first review the background of the birth of the first six generations of matrices.
But the Matrix trilogy is destined to leave its mark on film history. When The Matrix was released on March 31, 1999, viewers had no idea that it was the prelude to a science fiction epic. Whether it is the wonderful degree of action in this film or the deep meaning of the work, it is still new after many years to review.
Today we will take the “blue pill” with you to enter the world of the Matrix.
Prologue, Fairy Tale, Matrix
In 1999, people were in the panic of the “end of the world” of the millennium, and the Matrix was born at the right time. Humans create artificial AI but fight them for survival in a barren future, blocking out sunlight in an attempt to destroy the machines. Machines have created a “matrix”, producing humans in mass quantities as if they were growing vegetables, using computer interfaces to take over human perception and build a “past” society for them.
Neo, like thousands of “planted” brothers and sisters, lives in a constructed society and has been playing the role of programmer and underground hacker. Until Morpheus and Trinity, captains of the Human Resistance, found him. Curiosity has completely disrupted Neo’s original life, but Morpheus gives him two choices:
Take the blue pill, return to his fairy-tale society, wake up he is still a programmer with a decent life, and occasionally secretly sell some contraband to satisfy his resistance to the conformist life; Take the red pill and choose the real reality, the barren, the dangerous one that no longer has everything decent but gets the truth of the world. If you were given the choice, what would you choose?
Neo, like you, chose the red pill. The people of the future are like you surfing the Internet, they are just an ID, a serial number, the machine is blinded by human perception, and everything is just an illusion. With the help of the Morpheus human resistance organization, Neo breaks through his own cognition and walks in the world of “consciousness”.
Freed from his body, he is no longer bound by reality in the created world. And what he has to do is save the future of humanity. Neo, as the chosen one, was predicted by the humans who escaped the control of the machine to change all this, so he was able to see the truth.
Truth · Program · Animation “The Matrix” “The Matrix: Reloaded”
2000 marks the end of an old era and the beginning of a new one. Humans created artificial intelligence. In the beginning, people built machines, and he looked at his creation and said that was good. Humans treat machines as their own property and wantonly enslave them. But with the development of artificial intelligence, machines have ideas of their own.
The conflict between man and machine, a robot named B166R, kills its master because it does not want to be destroyed. The war between man and machine became known as the Second Renaissance.
Humans hid the sun but still lost the war between man and machine, but the machine found that the heat generated by humans could become the energy for them to continue to survive, so humans were mass-produced as the “new energy” of the machine. In order to better extract human resources, human beings are wrapped in one nutrient solution after another, and all consciousness is taken over by the maternal system.
Machines must be guaranteed to survive, to be their “batteries” and humans have always lived in the world they have constructed, which is called the Matrix. The matrix is just a matrix system that needs to be continuously updated iteratively to maintain stability. In The Matrix Reloaded, Neo meets the designers, who tell him the truth about a more real world.
In the many years since its birth, the Matrix has also undergone changes. Matrix 1.0 is a perfect world designed by the designers. Ruined by being too perfect. Matrix 2.0 designers wrapped humans in a “fairy tale” for a society in which humans “used to be” and made humans imitate the previous society.
But the plan failed. The machines underestimated the humans. Human emotion becomes the variable. During these attempts, a small number of humans woke up, escaped the system and built an underground city called Zion. Zion is like another system software that exists on your computer, and they have a collection of programs that are not accepted by mainstream society.
The designers introduced “religion and mythology” into Zion, and they set up “prophets” to save mankind. In fact, the prophet is also a program created by designers. But under the influence of humans, the Prophet became self-conscious and in the end he chose to help humanity. In the confrontation between the Matrix and Zion, Zion was constantly invaded, and Neo was once again forced to consciously return to the matrix, where the body remained in Zion.
In order to protect Neo’s body, Trinity died trying to save him. Choosing the human prophet also gives Neo two choices, one is to save his lover, the other is to put down his lover and choose all mankind. It’s you. What would you do? Unlike superheroes, Neo chose love. Man and machine are at war again.
After each time the prophet selects a human, the designer will always optimize the program to restart the system, and the development of the matrix will be more perfect. In the continuous improvement and optimization, Neo has come to the maternal 6.0 era. The reason why Neo can be regarded as the “chosen one” is precisely because he is the savior in the 6.0 era.
Every savior’s birth is a time to patch the matrix, because there are too many bugs in the entire matrix, which need to be cleared by the savior and restarted by the matrix. All of humanity and society will return to the 2.0 moment. Smith, the Matrix enforcer who has been hunting for defecting humans, has exploded into a BUG, and his presence is actually obstructing the process between humans and machines.
Order, Hope, The Matrix Revolution
When Smith became a BUG, the entire matrix was thrown out of order. The Prophet was controlled by Smith, and everyone in the Matrix society became Smith Smith. The designers eventually made a deal with Neo to eliminate the BUG. Having successfully acquired the ability to navigate the matrix, Neo chose to die with Smith in exchange for peace between man and machine. It’s still a choice, and between humans and himself, Neo makes a choice that superheroes make – sacrifice themselves.
In this “Savior” sacrifice, the matrix smoothly got a revolutionary upgrade, the defecting humans were able to live in Zion, the BUG affecting the matrix was eliminated, and everything seemed to seek benevolence. Humans and machines have regained a brief moment of peaceful coexistence. The Prophet gambled with humans and the Matrix, and she saved Zion and the bet paid off.
Has humanity triumphed? Yes, but I don’t think so. Don’t forget that Zion is still a system in a matrix. Machines have defeated humans from the start, and if they just need energy, they don’t have to bother to create matrices for humans. The purpose of establishing a society for human beings was to observe human development and evolution from the beginning. In The Matrix Revolution, Sati, a new human who is no longer trapped in body and consciousness, is the true future of humanity.
In the Matrix trilogy, each time the director gave Neo a chance to make a choice, the red and blue pills, the door of love and salvation, the war between man and machine. Every time Neo made a choice, it changed the world. At the end, we wonder, is our real world real? I wonder if Neo will regret not choosing the Red Pill?
The director of the Matrix trilogy draws us into the Matrix through hidden crises, and we are like Alice down the rabbit hole. All kinds of dark hints are reflecting our development. The philosophical question of body and soul is discussed in the context of the end times, and everything becomes more urgent. We wonder what the future holds for humanity, but either way it seems like The Matrix stops at hope.
