The Matrix
Hi!
I’m writing those lines hoping that one day I’ll manage to send them by net (if my modem connection will ever decide to function or if I won’t change my mind).
I bought the first Matrix DVD just because a colleague of mine had managed somehow to raise my curiosity. I knew nothing more about it than the things he had told me about it and when the movie had been broadcasted on TV some years ago it made no impression on me. Maybe I was too young.
I was having some doubts about it. I mean, it was the first DVD I’d ever bought and it had cost a lot of money. So, I was thinking I should have seen it before buying it (not that I were greedy but, anyway).
Than … I watched it on my PC and … It was so interesting, so different from all the movies I’d ever seen. It made me think, it made me dream, it made me hope that ... Definitely, buying it had been the best decision to take.
Then, I saw the reloaded at the Mall, on the first day of broadcasting in Romania. I wouldn’t have missed it for nothing in the world. I had booked the ticket with two days in advance, just to be sure I was going to see it.
And … I was a little bit disappointed. About the movie or about myself … I couldn’t say for sure.
I left the Mall with the neat impression I was missing something, something important, though I couldn’t figure it out what it was about. All I’d got after watching it were some sequences, more or less connected with each other and the germs of some ideas which hadn’t been developed enough in the movie or couldn’t fit in my head. I was a little bit confused. I didn’t know: the movie was of no good or I was so dump and stupid that I couldn’t understand it. Or maybe there was another reason. I mean why not understand it from the beginning? Why need to see it again and again? Why spend more and more money for it? Why talking with others hoping they could make the difference?
While writing, an idea, a new one just crossed my mind. I was thinking about the books I’ve read or I tried to. Ones I tried to tackle many times before reading. Others I read breathless till the end involving no effort at all. But there are books that regardless my increasingly strains have never succeeded to get through me. But it seems that movies can get to people much easier than books.
I was thinking the movie was either too intricate or too dull to raise my attention. And I began to believe that maybe me or us (the matrix watchers or fans) are being manipulated in a very subtle way but still somehow … Who knows?.
While writing about the Matrix I was wandering through the net, looking for …God knows what (I mean, by that hour I should have been already asleep) and I discovered some articles about the matrix. I gave them just a brief gaze, as usually (it’s the way I am, I don’t pay to much attention to the newspapers or magazines, but, of course it could be a flaw of mine) wanting to believe that I’m protecting myself somehow from their influence. Or maybe it’s just an illusion.
They were talking about money, a lot of money spent for making the movie, and gain from the movie all over the world. They were talking about a lot of stuff related to the movie as games, animatrix, magazines and others.
And, I was thinking if we are not lead by the team who created the concept of the matrix the same way the matrix from the movie was leading the characters. The same way that maybe the creator made Neo fall in love with Trinity. Or maybe the matrix team had been lead or heavenly inspired in making the movie.
But, as I said or I haven’t said before, I saw the first matrix only trice and the second only once, without any trailers or other stuff to get myself prepared. Maybe I should get more info before trying to maintain my point of view.
Though, I can’t get rid of the feeling of being used.
I mean, anybody is supposed to judge for him/herself.
I began writing this (whatever you like to call it) the day before, at home, on my PC, about 23.00 o’clock. About 1.00 o’clock in the night (or in the morning) I decided I should get some sleep, so I got to bed.
But, today I keep writing about it in a place where I’m supposed to work (don’t tell my boss about it).
So, do you get my point?
You might say, of course, there will be always better stuff to do than working! And you’d be right. But still …
Why not writing about no matter what else?
I remember a line in the 2nd matrix, something like: “what people with power want”. And the answer came sharply: “more power”. I’d say that, in a more general approach, it could stand for “what people with money want” with the answer “more money”.
So, don’t you think that they are taking advantage of our desire, our need for knowledge, for something new, for something different, or our weak points? Or, maybe, just of our ignorance?
A colleague of mine from another office has just apologized for interrupting me (I had to work a little) so, you see … it must be important what I’m doing now. Or maybe they want me to believe so.
I remember an article about the two matrix, very well written, from my point of view, though it proves too much grasp of English and a lot of other knowledge in different areas, which proves very well, I believe, the incredible links between sciences. That person questioned rhetorically about choice and free will.
Can anyone say where they begin or end?
I mean like those two parts of the matrix. For those who like to think a lot, to analyze all the things they come across (like me, I guess) they seem to be a very stuffy material to deal with.
Strange things seem to happen lately. Usually, when I have to stop writing because of something, I find it hard to fit in the rhythm. But now, no matter what I’m doing my ideas of matrix seem to develop independent of any activity I’m involved in. And, as time goes by, they become stronger and somehow self – supporting.
I don’t know if that is good or wrong, if I should like it to continue or not. Thought, I’m afraid my writing has begun to have too many directions and not one in particular (as if it wasn’t like that from the beginning).
A lot of ideas are revolving in my head, knocking themselves, but still getting on somehow.
There are new theories coming by but I’d better go see the 2nd one again before saying other craps.
And all started from a simple talk. Or maybe before that talk.
PS:
Please forgive my English!