You take the blue pill - the speech ends here, we move on to the next speaker and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – the speech continues, you stay in wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
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You take the blue pill - the speech ends here, we move on to the next speaker and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – the speech continues, you stay in wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
thiago offered me this cause he couldn't tell me what the microsoftix was...and i think i picked the red pill.
I'd take the ten hits of LSD in my pocket and go to my own wonderland, where theres a road that leads into the sky.
@adam_grif: link?
The Matrix makes numerous references to recent films and literature, and to historical myths and philosophy including Simulacron-3, Vedanta, AdvaitaHinduism, YogaVashishtaHinduism, Judaism, Messianism, Buddhism, Gnosticism, Christianity, Existentialism, Nihilism, and occult tarot. The film's premise resembles Plato'sAllegory of the cave, Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland, René Descartes's evil genius, Georges Gurdjieff'sThe Sleeping Man, Kant's reflections on the Phenomenon versus the Ding an sich, and the brain in a vat thought experiment, while Jean Baudrillard'sSimulacra and Simulation is featured in the film. There are similarities to several works by science fiction author Philip K. Dick, as well as cyberpunk works such as Neuromancer by William Gibson.
The film was a mish-mash of earlier cyberpunk novels and the brain-in-a-jar thought experiment that everybody learns about when they're like 15 years old doing high school philosophy. Go read Neuromancer or watch Ghost In The Shell (they're both superior). Neuromancer even contains something called "the Matrix", which is the world-wide virtual reality / internet hybrid. Ghost In The Shell features near-identical "neck plugs" for "jacking in" and interfacing directly with computers.
There is almost nothing NEW in the film. It borrows from a variety of sources and meshes the stuff together. The film "eXistenZ" was released the same year and featured many striking similarities, because it was using the exact same metaphysical philosophy that The Matrix was.
TheGreatGuero said: I uhh... I can't swallow pills. Sorry Morpheus. Do you have them in chewable form? Little known fact: ... [more]
Tarsier said: @adam_grif: link? The Matrix makes numerous references to recent films and literature, and to historical myths and philosophy ... [more]
Tarsier said: @adam_grif: link? The Matrix makes numerous references to recent films and literature, and to historical myths and philosophy ... [more]
You're right. Any film that borrows from another film is instantly terrible.
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