As for The Matrix, I've seen the movie, I've seen the animated version, and I've played the game. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The game is called: "The Matrix, Neo's Way", a large-scale single-player role-playing game. PC-side.

It is to revisit the plot of the movie from the perspective of the protagonist, and many of the game plots are supplements to the plot of the movie.

Just like the part where Neo was caught in the company at the beginning, there was no specific plot in the movie, and it was gone in a flash. The game is very specific, telling how the protagonist escapes.

SO~~~ If you are interested, you can download it and play it. Of course, this is a game from 05, and the graphics and special effects are not particularly good, but in those days, it was considered top-notch. When we play, we play with a feeling, play with the plot, and don't have to worry too much about these.

Anyway, I'm okay to play, and I'll take the scum notebook with me.

Below, is the analysis of the Matrix. Originally, I wanted to write it myself, but there are a lot of things... Uh, forgive me, I scumbag can't write it. So, I reprinted an analysis that I personally think is the best.

The analysis is a bit long, everyone wants to read it, just watch it, and if you don't want to read it, you skip it, which has no impact on the novel. I think book friends who like to delve into movies can still take a look.

(This chapter is free, and I just use the fruits of other people's labor to carry forward, and I can't earn manuscript fees with a clear conscience.) ）

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The sources here are mainly MATRIX animations.

Everything started one day in the near future, when artificial AI robots served all areas of human life, on this day, an artificial AI robot suddenly exploded and killed its human owner, this accident triggered a movement similar to the elimination of "rabid dogs", and human society carried out unreasonable "slaughter" and "drive" of artificial AI robots Most of the artificial AI robots were destroyed, and a small number of abandoned artificial AI robots gathered in a place abandoned by humans and began to live on their own feet (somewhere in the Middle East, at that time, it was estimated that the oil in the Middle East had already been exhausted, so it became a desert).

One day at the United Nations General Assembly, two humanoid robot ambassadors tried to make the "machine country" join the United Nations, but human beings thought it was a great shame and drove away the robot ambassadors on the spot, and then various frictions between the robot empire and human countries escalated into a full-scale war.

But the flesh and blood of human beings are difficult to resist the attack of robots, human beings are losing in the war, and the red-eyed human beings finally come up with the ultimate weapon "nuclear bomb", but the large-scale nuclear explosion has not been able to cause substantial destruction to the robot, and the radioactive contamination after the nuclear explosion is completely ineffective against the robot, and the powerful offensive of the robot has not diminished at all.

At this time, the human beings who have been exhausted have adopted a battle plan of "covering the sky", because the energy supply of robots is dependent on solar energy, and if solar energy is cut off, there will be a shortage of energy supply for robots, and the conversion of energy supply system is not something that can be done in a short period of time (at least in human society, the above theory is valid, but for robots.... At this time, launch a final counteroffensive to extinguish all the robots in one fell swoop.

So the human race began this crazy and stupid plan, and soon the sky of the earth was obscured by a layer of black opaque clouds, but the situation that humans expected did not happen, and the robots with energy shortages were not paralyzed in large numbers, and they used the wounded human prisoners of war on the battlefield as temporary "batteries" (This is the original motivation for the creation of MATRIX, at that time, it was just a simple row of humans connected to the machine, by stimulating the human brain to make the human body generate electricity, but the human connected to the machine will soon die, death means that the battery is dead, in order to make the battery last longer, the robot began to study the human brain, and improved the food supply system, so that the human can survive longer after connecting to the machine), the robot repelled the last counterattack of the human concentrated all forces, and after the elimination of the last government of the human race, all the organized resistance of the human race came to an end, and the era of the human race came to an end。

In fact, the problem of robots also because of the human beings covering the sky energy, although the human prisoners of war as batteries were used to temporarily solve the crisis, but it is not easy to convert the energy supply system in a short period of time, only to use more humans as batteries to solve the current energy shortage, so a large number of humans were arrested as batteries, and finally almost all humans on the earth were used as batteries.

But the human being used as a battery will die quickly, so the robot that has a considerable understanding of the human brain has developed a recyclable human battery system, the human brain is connected to a computer virtual space, this is the original MATRIX system, in this system, human beings live in a perfect world, all desires and needs are satisfied, the robot thinks that such a system can make human beings survive for a long time, but the robot that lacks understanding of the human emotional world is wrong, and the human battery connected to this perfect world dies in large numbers......

This life

Now enter the MATRIX (matrix) world in the movie, where MATRIX is a simulation of a certain period of human history, most humans don't know that they live in an illusory world, but this illusory world is not perfect and invulnerable, there are always some big or small bugs in a corner of the world, and some individuals with special physiques in human beings seem to be able to surpass the control of the system (sprinters who exceed the limits of physical fitness in the animated version), and even more, some programs have self-awareness in contact with humans, and they learn to evade the deletion of the system。

These incalculable errors could lead to the collapse of the entire system, and the early MATRIX responded to this by remediating the dead or killing those in the know, but this mode of operation obviously does not last long, the problem will accumulate more and more, and the patching of system errors may lead to more errors, and there must be a way to periodically "clean" the system and restart it.

(Imagine a game server full of bugs, this server never goes down for maintenance) This is the "MATRIX upgrade" that everyone has repeatedly mentioned, but the trouble is that the countless human lives connected to the MATRIX obviously cannot be restarted, and at this time, MATRIX, which already has a good understanding of the human emotional world, has found a "most economical" The perfect plan to use bugs to eliminate bugs and create opportunities to reboot the system is what the Matrix trilogy is all about.

Here's my reasoning about this plan following the plot of the movie.

The beginning of this plan is to set up ZION, a shelter for the human awakened, and since the killing of the human awakened often leads to the awakening of more people, it is better to kick these awakened out of the system and put them under unified supervision, ZION It's not so much a paradise of human freedom as a big prison, why do you say that, you must know that ZION was established by people sent by MATRIX (the location MATRIX was of course known for a long time), and these people became the leadership of ZION as a matter of course, and everyone was actually under the supervision of people controlled by MATRIX. Since humans have the ability to reproduce, the expansion of ZION is also inevitable, in order to prevent ZION from losing control due to its strength, MATRIX has to destroy ZION regularly (just a gesture), and this process is combined with MATRIX's upgrade plan.

The second step is to create a "prophet" worshipped by the human awakened, due to MATRIX's long-term research on human beings, human beings are very superstitious (humans call this faith), and lack rational judgment about "miracles" or "traps" (some moviegoers have always insisted that the prophet is helping humanity..... Even the people who watched the movie were confused .... Let the Prophet give the "rebels" a little "sweetness", and then you can control the actions of these guys in the MATRIX.

In fact, all the actions of both Morpheus and NEO in the movie were prompted by the prophet, and they had the habit of going to the prophet to "give orders" before they took action The difference is that cults generally use some small tricks to deceive the trust of others, while this prophet calculates the occurrence of future events in advance through a high-speed computer (so these things are not bound to happen, and it is necessary for a role like a prophet to guide or induce them to achieve) to gain the trust of human beings.

The third step is to create an illusory hope for these ZION humans "THE ONE", which is the protagonist of the movie, NEO, who also has a role, because the programs that evade deletion are familiar with the operation methods of MATRIX, they will not eat the tricks of the "prophet" and have to deal with these "dangerous system garbage" This special role is also needed, and in the movie, NEO is induced by the Prophet (who asks him to find the Key Man) to kick the French and eliminate many of his powerful men.

Why not eliminate the French, because the French play a similar role to ZION, he collects the programs that evade deletion as his subordinates, just like sweeping the garbage into the trash can (the French are sweeping the floor to put it bluntly), so that it is good to dump it once (the ONE is responsible for one dumping), and it is estimated that there will be a THE every time the MATRIX is upgraded ONE listened to the Prophet's guidance and went to the French to smash it, so the French hated and helplessly did this trick of the Prophet, which is why he wanted to gouge out the Prophet's eyes.

The fourth step is to start cleaning up the inside and outside of the system, this step requires the inducement of the prophet and NEO's strong ability, first of all, to make NEO gain the ability and obey the prophet's words, this process is probably the content of the first episode of the hacker, and then it is to crack down on the escape program in the system, the prophet uses the key to find people as bait, so that NEO's gang and the French men fight, and the French are all wiped out.

The French couple never made a move out of their knowledge of the "game" (not only did they not help, but the French wife helped after an unexplained kiss, who knows if it was not agreed by the two couples in advance?), a process described in detail in the second episode of the movie. Finally, ZION is cleaned up and all of ZION's combat forces are eliminated, and MATRIX, who has long known ZION's location, will eliminate ZION's resistance forces without much effort, which is described in detail in the third episode.

THE LAST STEP IS MORE TROUBLESOME, WHICH IS TO DESTROY THE MYTH OF THE ONE AND ELIMINATE ALL THE "SUSPICIONS" OF THE PROPHET, AND THEN RESTART THE MATRIX WITHOUT ALL THE HUMANS IN THE MATRIX BEING AWARE (I SUSPECT IT MAY BE SIMILAR TO CHANGING THE GAME SERVER HOST), IN WHICH THE ROLE OF THE ONE IS BOTH ESSENTIAL AND QUITE DANGEROUS IN THE WHOLE PLAN, AND IMPROPER CONTROL OF THIS CHARACTER CAN HAVE VERY SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES (THIS IS FROM THE LAST ARCHITECT AND PROPHET OF HACKER 3 SAID:" You're playing a very dangerous game", you know).

Eliminating NEO is a difficult problem, and MATRIX's response to this is Smith, who in the first episode is just a "virus program" with a very strong sense of personality and personality, and his dissatisfaction with the MATRIX system is the reason why he was chosen to be the candidate to eliminate NEO, because he will eventually be eliminated (the essence of this plan is to let bugs and bugs attack each other to cancel each other).

After Smith was eliminated by NEO at the end of the first episode, he was resurrected and gained new abilities in the second episode, many people interpret this as a miscalculated antivirus program upgrade of the system, in fact, how could a MATRIX controller with such a high intelligence make such a stupid mistake, this must have been planned, and Smith's actions after gaining the ability are also predictable (the prophet's specialty, not to mention the prophet, even after I watched the second episode, I guessed that Smith would copy all mankind in the third episode), in fact, his role is to copy all mankind, and then uses the abilities he absorbs from others to defeat NEO (it is clear in the movie that Smith defeated and absorbs NEO), and then the system deletes him and NEO, his code is eliminated from everyone, and everyone faints at the same time, and finally MATRIX seizes the opportunity to restart.

IN THIS PLAN, THE HUMANS OF ZION ARE STUPID ENOUGH TO COLLECT THE AWAKENED HUMANS IN THE MATRIX, AND THE FRENCH ARE ALSO HELPLESS TO COLLECT THE ESCAPE JOURNEY (IF HE DOESN'T COLLECT IT, HE WILL HAVE TO DO IT WITH THE ONE HIMSELF, AND THE RESULT IS.... MATRIX easily and happily cleaned up the dangerous garbage inside and outside the system, and this is only in passing, the important thing is that the system has been given the opportunity to restart, and the stability of the system is guaranteed. The best thing about this plan is that it can be used repeatedly, MATRIX has to be restarted again and again, ZION has been destroyed and rebuilt again and again (in the movie, it was wiped out because it should have been counted, ZION's combat power is completely gone, and the number of kills has never been the effect that MATRIX pursues), and several generations of THE ONE have appeared and fallen again and again, and MATRIX has been running safely for centuries.

Do you think this is the end of it?

What about bringing people to a higher level? Hehe, please read on.

1. What is Matrix?

Matrix is a film, and it's just a film – it's the starting point of the discussion, and the end of all the interpretive regressions that come with it.

It's a movie, it's about telling a story, not an elaboration or visualization of a philosophical theory. The story "has a beginning and an end", and in the process of the story from the beginning, development, climax to the end, no matter what means the creator takes: hints, metaphors, symbols, etc., must serve a reasonable and unified plot logic, play a role in rendering the atmosphere, strengthening the suspense, inciting emotions, and promoting the ups and downs of the plot development, which is exciting. This is a "good" movie!

Measured by this standard, the various "Guo XX" explanations and explanations that are currently popular on the market, if they cannot contribute to the understanding of the plot and the logic of plot development, even if it is not a fallacy, it is just some kind of academic research that expounds the subtleties and subtleties, which seems to be profound, but in fact it is getting farther and farther away from the facts themselves. (It is not my intention to denigrate previous attempts at "hypotheses", but there is an essential difference between "Matrix" and the "Matrix phenomenon.") Here, I'm going to unravel the mystery of the final truth of Matrix in a narrative way.

2. The background of the story: the prequel to "Matrix".

"After a long, long time, in a land of machines......"

After a tragic man-machine war, machines eventually occupied and ruled the earth, "planting" human beings as energy sources, and at the same time, in order to maintain human reproduction and ensure the stability of energy production, machines provide human beings with the illusion of spiritual life through a certain machine, which is the Matrix. Computer principles aside, there are two meanings here: first, the Matrix is a machine of machines used to produce energy, just like the tools humans use to produce food, and second, the reason for the realization of the Matrix is based on the so-called human "theory of consciousness" (see various explanations of Plato's philosophy on the Internet).

As a production tool, the only measure of Matrix is the improvement of production efficiency. The first generation of Matrix designed by The Architect was a perfect world designed according to human ideals, originally thinking that everyone would live and work in peace and contentment, but did not want to cause a large number of human beings (or "food") to die due to human inferiority, so The Architect had to design a world that matched the reality according to the actual situation of human beings.

Even so, the consciousness of independence and freedom in human nature cannot be extinguished. So The Architect, the father of the Matrix, cooperated with the oracle, the mother of the Matrix, to give humans a "hypothetical" choice, making them think that entering and leaving the Matrix was the result of their "free" choice, which is the origin of Zion. But Zion's five reconstructions and five destructions prove that humanity is still controlled by a circular theory;

In addition, machines have found a way to constantly improve and upgrade their "food" production tools by fighting against the ever-changing consciousness of human beings. (This process, like the history of man's struggle with the land, was not until the improvement of the means of production and the advent of surplus products that man was freed from the shackles of the land and a brilliant civilization was born.) Machines with AI intelligence are also pursuing their own machine civilization by constantly improving production tools - machines are taking the only path for the development of human civilization. ）

This can be regarded as a benign interactive relationship of harmonious coexistence between humans and machines, but its principle has changed from the original "anthropocentrism" of human dominance to the "machine-centrism" after the machine occupies the earth. In a philosophical sense, these two propositions are equivalent, or to put it bluntly, equally false - if "anthropocentrism" leads to human beings to be blind and arrogant, to ignore the existence of machines, and eventually to self-destruction, then "machine-centrism" will also lead to the destruction of machines themselves.

The imagination of the Wachowski brothers begins here: the ruler of the machine kingdom is the same as human society, there is the king Deus Ex Machina (the great machine), there is the ruler The Architect, whose ruling principle to maintain the order of the Matrix is "machine-centrism", and the reformist Oracle, who realizes that "machine-centrism" has a huge hidden crisis, and the The decaying and declining aristocracy, the Merovingians, who stubbornly resist for the sake of their own existence, are a reactionary force hindering the progress of machine society.

3. The beginning of the story: "Matrix1"

Representing the "potential" progressive forces of the Machine Nation is The One. Here, I make it clear that The One is definitely a machine, and secondly, The One is an escalation program, which is used to measure and monitor the consciousness of human resistance, and this program can give anyone, when he is awakened, it marks that the human struggle against the machine has reached a certain level of unsustainable (expressed in Matrix 2 as "In these months, we have liberated more people from the Matrix than the previous combined"), at which point The One will stand up and pass The The keymaker goes back to the source program to complete the upgrade of the Matrix system.

This kind of escalation is not only the progress of tools, but also the strengthening of machine control over human beings, and in terms of thought, it is the vicious expansion of "machine-centrism". Oracle is not on the side of humanity (the so-called "human liberator") as most people think, she is a program, she must maximize the interests of the machine, she is just the first "awakener" of the machine country, after seeing the devastating crisis of this "machine-centrism", she is determined to take the opportunity of the upcoming sixth upgrade of the Matrix, in action, to launch an attack on the rule of The Architect. This is tantamount to a stormy social revolution.

It would be pointless if the movie "Matrix" tells the story of Matrix's first five reciprocating upgrades. The story begins with change: in the face of The Architect's domination, Oracle's reform goal is to change the choice of entering and exiting the Matrix from false to real, and return it to humanity, and the first step in her action is to fight for The One (in the first five upgrades, The One has no position, no independent consciousness, and his choice is also illusory, he only exists to upgrade the Matrix and improve the production tools of the machine), so that The One can be listed in the Matrix2 returns to the source program and makes the opposite decision to the previous five;

This, of course, also seriously threatens the survival of the Matrix system. Oracle wants to "indoctrinate" revolutionary consciousness into The One, which has the ability to do so, and her method is "love". If I have to ask why, I can only say that love in a broad sense is the only driving force for social progress, and only love can help The One understand the suffering of the two opposing sides of the contradiction between machine and man at the same time, so as to deeply reflect on the relationship between man and machine and its future.

It wasn't until Matrix 3 that we understood the Wachowski brothers' idea of love: love is nothing but a relationship that can occur between anything that has a will, whether it's between people (like Morpheus and Niobe (the other captain)) or between machines (like Rama and his wife (a family of three at the train station)), and Oracle chose the most dangerous of these types: machine-man love. She uses the voice of a prophet to evoke Morpheus' faith and passion for The One (they have formed a deep brotherhood in the battle together), and leads Trinity (the heroine) to fall in love with Neo, who is implanted in The One.

No matter what kind of movie "Matrix1" is, if you understand that this is a love story that is almost as great as a classic romance movie, it is enough! The film begins with Trinity's love for Neo and goes through all the pain of love: care, longing, trust, dedication, sacrifice, life and death...... It wasn't until the final moments of the film that Neo came back from the dead in a heart-wrenching lore and kissed Trinity affectionately, proving the love between the two. It is said that "Matrix1" is simple and easy to understand, because the story to be told and the final climax of the film are relatively simple: The One is in love! Although there is a foreshadowing of human-machine love, what does it matter, in the eyes of the director, all love is the same, and all love journeys are equally difficult.

Love changed the attributes of The One for the first time (before there was love, Neo was not the One in Oracle's mind, so she denied it to her face), Neo sided with Oracle, and the revolution ignited the spark of hope. However, because we have watched the entire "Matrix" series, we know that Neo is a machine, the purpose of his existence is to upgrade the machine, he will struggle with love and mission, and he finally chooses to sacrifice. So next, we will watch with anguish as a love tragedy inevitably unfolds.

The revolution has begun! Oracle dropped the dice, took a risk, what happened in the future, she can no longer control what happens, this is the price of the revolution, either success or destruction, the road of change is full of difficulties and crises, and no one in it knows where all this will go?

4. The development of the story: "Matrix 2: Reloaded"

As an aside, translating "Matrix 2: Reloaded" as "Reloaded" is much more in line with the original meaning than "Out of the Matrix", because the second episode is a plot development throughout the series, and it is about Neo with the "Awakened Eye" Traveling through Matrix and Zion, experiencing the suffering of machines and humans at the same time, feeling the crisis of the imminent extinction of all mankind, deeply reflecting on the contradictions between humans and machines, and finally returning to Matrix to complete the mission of system upgrade (Reloaded).

Neo's journey in Matrix 2 should be much the same as his first five The One, so as a story, one of the most interesting and noteworthy stories is the difference between Neo, who already has the attribute of love, and the first five The One. Please keep this comparison in mind as you read the following and watch the video.

In the terrifying prospect of humanity's imminent destruction, Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity return to the Matrix in search of Oracle, while the sixth upgrade of the Matrix is about to begin, and the Oracle and The Keymaker are hunted down and blocked by the Merovingians (French) who resist the upgrade. Neo meets in secret with Oracle in a perilous environment. At this point, The One's attributes have changed, and although Oracle has won Neo, it can't control Neo's next move, so she hints at Neo with a long talk before she tells The One to take The Keymaker as usual, that you have been changed, and you have to make the choice to rescue Trinity, but you must recognize your mission: you are also one of the programs, and you will return to the source program.

There are two major events that must be explained in the development of the plot narrative in the future: one is to follow Neo, we see the real life of Zion for the first time, and throughout the journey, Neo looks down on the beautiful home where his lover lives with infinite affection for Trinity, without which his love would no longer exist.

The second event is to capture The Keymaker, who was imprisoned by the Merovingians. Keep an eye out for a scene where Merovingian conspires with his mistress Perse phone to steal The One code (which is why Neo was imprisoned by Merovingian in Episode 3). If you compare the top five The One, you can imagine that without Neo's love for Trinity, the kiss scene would never have happened (Persephone demanded that Neo must kiss as deep as Trinity).

In other words, this is the first time that the conservative forces of the Machine Nation have stolen The One's code, thinking that they can stop the sixth upgrade of the Matrix. This was, of course, beyond the expectations of Oracle and The Architect, casting an ominous shadow over the revolution.

In the exciting "Highway Chase" that follows, there may have been similar scenes in the first five times, but please note that this is actually the first time Merovingian has discovered The One was able to resist bullets but was still injured by a sword, so he besieged Neo in a group fight, and as a result, the humans represented by Morpheus and Trinity escaped the level alone without Neo's help, both out of love and friendship for Neo, and also showed heroic spirit in the battle to fight for the last ray of human life. If there is no desperate fight for humans in the forbidden area, The Keymaker will not be able to escape the fate of being robbed halfway by the Agent (the simple-minded Agent made the mistake of thinking that The Keymaker was a useless program to be deleted, but The Keymaker insisted that he had his own use; it was because of The Keymaker, like Neo, is part of the upgrade process, and their importance is unknown to the Agent), which in a sense marks an unprecedented level of human-machine love.

Following the logic of the plot arrangement, the second episode is only foreshadowing and transitioning in the intentions of the Wachowski brothers, without too violent climaxes, focusing on the rendering of the turning point - Neo's resolute choice to save Trinity. The ingenuity of the story lies in the fact that the film begins with a nightmare of Neo, who already has the ability to premonition, Neo asks Trinity not to enter the Matrix under any circumstances, but in the end, the situation forces Trinity to rescue Neo and fights to enter the Matrix, which makes Neo have an urgent urgency and an almost explosive emotional outburst at the turn. At the end of the film, Neo kills the squid with one hand in the real world, and then faints, and the phrase "I can feel them" confirms Neo's procedural properties.

The content that is easy to overlook but closely related to the next episode is the tyranny of the machine kingdom - the machine is ruled by the machine, and there is no choice (including The One), the program only lives for the purpose, and the useless will be deleted. So by the end of the second episode, there were only three programs that dared to stand up against tyranny: Oracle, Seraph (the Prophet's guardian bodyguard), and The One. It wasn't until the third episode that we saw a more programmatic awakening of self-consciousness: Rama and his wife, along with their youngest daughter Sati (the future Matrix Administrator), had only one option before the revolution: to smuggle out of City 01 (Machine City) through the Merovingian underground - isn't this the same as the human life in a tyrannical state?!

5. The climax and ending of the story: "Matrix3: Revolutions"

Where there is tyranny, there is a revolution, and once it happens, it is not under the control of the leader of the revolution, the Oracle, and the result of the revolution is not necessarily victory: either the evolution of the machine or the defeat of both sides. The film gradually enters the climax with a heavy and breathless suspense.

Due to the twists and turns in Matrix 2 that are different from the previous five, Neo is stolen by Merovingian and imprisoned in the train station, forcing Oracle to risk her life to reappear (she has become a reactionary in the overthrow of the Machine Nation by leading the revolution, and is hunted down by both Merovingian and The Architect).

Disillusioned and frustrated with humanity for help, Morpheus asks sharply, "How can I still trust you when you tell me?!" Oracle uses to impress them with love for Trinity, and for Morpheus, his friendship with Neo. Later, when the humans descend into the hell bar, there is a dramatic scene: Persephone turns to the aid of the humans and rescues Neo. This is because Persephone took the opportunity to steal Neo's code while also experiencing Neo's love for Trinity, the love that machines have for people, and she was moved by this love and betrayed her organization in a sense. Does this suggest that this social revolution must be accomplished by the combination of man and machine?

The answer is no, because Neo's captivity is beyond Oracle's expectations, and the fact that Oracle is still asking for help from humanity despite the loss of faith is obviously the only way to do it - Oracle is not sure whether humanity will agree in advance. At this point in the plot, the reader may already have a deep doubt in their minds, in this great revolution, human beings are just a tool, first induced by Oracle to influence and even change The One's choice in front of The Architect, and now to save the unexpected changes in this revolution, this question will lead us to the final truth of "Matrix"! I only begin to explain the other main thread of the film: Smith (Smith). I hope you don't misunderstand that this is just due to the difference in the way words and images are expressed. For Smith, the film makes it clear that he is the opposite of Neo's two sides of the same coin. To put it in the logical way of the plot, that is, if Neo represents the love of the machine for humans, then Smith represents the hatred of the machine for humans, and these two emotions of the machine are equally present and powerful, and any single party can threaten the survival of the entire Matrix.

Here's a conjecture that maybe computer experts can argue from the other side: The Architect is the insidious establishment, and when he had to come to a compromise with Oracle and accept the fact that Zion was human, he had already arranged behind his back to guard against another relatively equal restraint force of the Oracle to start a revolution, giving Smith the ability to change equally with the changes of Neo, so that Smith became a weapon of the ruling class to suppress the revolution, and he had all the attributes of the evil forces of all social revolutions: the forces of darkness grew in tandem with the forces of light.

When Neo and Smith meet in a thunderous and pouring rain, the show reaches its climax, and we reach the darkest and most exciting entrance to the mystery of The Matrix: if love and hate are equally powerful, how can love overcome hate, and how can such a revolution succeed?

In fact, this is also an eternal paradox in the process of human evolution and development. Growing up under the current system, it is difficult for us to understand the views and concepts of modern Westerners on social revolution, especially the painful reflections of Westerners after experiencing a series of social changes. All I can tell you is that the concepts and methods used by the Wachowski brothers in the film are not innovative, and they are very popular in the West, and even look like the Buddhist way of Datong at first glance, but its spiritual essence is Western: martyrdom. Just like the death of Jesus, and like the self-sacrifice of the Buddha "I don't go to hell, I will go to hell", which continues to this day, Gandhi went on hunger strike again and again.

The title "Revolutions" captures the essence of "Matrix 3" very well, and you can see him as a social revolution film about love and hate, darkness and light, justice and evil, conservatism and reform. After a earth-shattering duel with Smith, Neo suddenly understood the last question of his mission at the last moment: "When?", and he chose martyrdom. There is no need to ask how the dark forces were destroyed and how the revolution took place after the martyrdom, because this is history.

Oracle's adventure succeeds - she has won the right for humanity to freely enter and exit the Matrix! This is the biggest difference between the sixth The One and the first five, and the upgrade can be called a revolution in this sense, and the sunshine that Neo sees with Trinity on the journey of struggle brings the first warm light to the Matrix. Such an ending has made most hacker fans fall into despair: at such a heavy price - Zion was beaten to pieces, Neo and Trinity both died, and a beautiful love faded away, but not only did Matrix complete a higher level upgrade, but 99% of humanity is still imprisoned in Matrix, how can such a result be called a revolution?!

My attitude is that I agree that this is a new evolution of human-machine relations, and at the same time, I agree that this is not the earth-shaking and vigorous revolution that everyone dreams of, but if you look back at the 80 million years of human civilization at this moment, you will also agree with my statement: progress is slow but precious, and the future is long but worth looking forward to!

At the end of the film, the little girl Sati innocently asks Oracle, "Can I see Uncle Neo again?" She peered endlessly into the distance, and uttered words that were completely incompatible with her prophetic status: "Perhaps." ”

6. The Final Truth: The Machine Revolution

To sum up the whole film, we can say that "Matrix" is a science fiction thrilling story that tells the story of a group of robots led by Oracle who were the first to awaken in consciousness and emotion during the sixth upgrade of the Matrix system.

The final truth of "Matrix" is that this revolution is a revolution of machines, a feat of machine revolutionaries, and has nothing to do with human beings! The slight changes made by the revolution are only the evolution of machine society and the progress of machine civilization; as for human beings, their struggle against machines will continue, but they will not start all over again as they did in the previous five times, and human civilization will thus gain a small space, at least it can continue.

Would you like a movie about a machine that has nothing to do with humans (or that humans are just tools to be used)? Would you accept the conclusion that a machine is more conscious, more progressive, and perhaps even more advanced than humans? This disappointment is deeply portrayed in the film on Morpheus's dazed face after the machine retreats, and he mutters to himself, "Is this the end?" The great moment he dreamed of toppling the Matrix had not yet arrived, and was still far away. On the Internet, someone has already waved his arms and shouted: "I don't want to believe that this is a machine myth!"

The greatness of the Wachowski brothers is not that they ask us the question: Are you willing to break the "anthropocentrism" in the eternal struggle between man and machine? Are you also willing to break the "machine-centrism"? This kind of change in stance seems to be easy, but in fact it requires us to completely smash all the inertial thinking of human supremacy and anthropocentrism that has long been ingrained in our minds.

An equally important question is raised in the film in the way of the whole plot: if breaking "machine-centrism" requires a terrible price and sacrifice, including love and the people you love the most, but the progress you can get is so insignificant, are you still willing to be a machine revolutionary who sacrifices your life for righteousness? God, you know, this is actually the same question as whether you are willing to pay to break "anthropocentrism"!

Great movies always just ask questions and provoke people to think, without providing dogmatic answers. "Matrix" is a great film in my eyes, and it also has this excellent quality. He did not elevate the philosophical proposition of the relationship between man and machine to an unprecedented level, as everyone said, and he had no answer! He proposed a completely new perspective on this question.

This is the real cinematic revolution of Matrix. Just as "Star Wars" began "a long, long time ago, in a distant galaxy ......", thus breaking the boundaries of time and space in our minds and raising the human imagination to the level of cosmic vision, "Matrix" extends the human imagination to the emotions and hearts of machines by "...... in a country of machines in a long, long time".

(If we use the Wachowski brothers' idea of "relationships" as a bridge, our imagination can penetrate into everything.) Breaking free from the shackles of the concept of time and space and the concept of humanity, it is no wonder that the Wachowski brothers are so unpredictable and unpredictable that it is difficult for us to follow and our guesses fall short again and again.

Although there is no final answer, the Wachowski brothers still convey to us some of their basic ideas through the film: first, "anthropocentrism" and "machine-centrism" may be equally wrong, and they are horribly wrong; second, they tend to Buddhism for the path of social change and development, and there is no superiority in everything, only relationships, and all relationships are equal. It's simple, but that's probably all the Wachowski brothers have to say!