Neo is basically Christian mythos cyber-Jesus… why would he stay in comfort but aimless boring routine instead of trying to find the truth about the world and make it a better place, even if it means risking his own life? 🤷
You mean that dead-end job and no social life to speak of? Not to mention the clashes with police he had.
Neo wouldn’t even have left his house to go to the party if it wasn’t for the white rabbit reference.
“Would you rather have an average mediocre life, or a bi-polar life that swings between being a god and a pauper on the run?”
Isn’t this The Entire Point?
That there is value in truth, even if the truth is painful?
That we should believe in and fight for a cause, even if fighting is hard?
And that’s what I love so much about it, it really drills down to what you value in life. What’s more important, being comfortable, or knowing the truth? Do you really want to know how the sausage is made?
I think of cases like 1930s Germany, where people just ignored the atrocities happening because they weren’t happening to them. Those bystanders were like Cypher in The Matrix, where they decided that “ignorance is bliss” and looked the other way. The film certainly paints Cypher as a bad guy, but I think a lot would side with him if he instead were a new recruit who decides to go back to the Matrix shortly after learning the truth.
Anyway, The Matrix is perhaps my favorite movie of all time, I’m still waiting for a sequel. 😉
Yeah, it’s a real shame they never made another. I’d love a third Alien movie also, but we’ll just have to make do with two.
I’ve seen this many times and it’s always fucking funny for me every time. The combination of the picture and the caption is so perfect.
PORRIDGE SLOP NEOOOOOO
