When I was in high school, my biology teacher put forth a question that plagued me for many years: How do you know that you are not just a brain in a vat that someone external is providing all the stimuli to? Over the years I came up with an answer. It would simply be too much trouble and a waste of time to provide me with this whole complex world. No one person is worth that much trouble. And then the movie the Matrix came along with a really GOOD answer to why it would be worth it. I thought the first movie was fantastic. It addressed that burning question. It also created this amazing scenario where people could escape that fate to what was basically a really horrible reality. There were so many concepts that movie addressed so well. The machines tried to make a wonderful world, but all the human crops died. I loved it when one of the characters betrays the other characters to try and get back to a life where he didn’t know any better.
The fact that the Matrix was going to be made into a trilogy opened up all sorts of possibilities for how it would end. In my made-up ending, it turned out that Neo and his friends were actually in a second level matrix. Whenever people seemed to fight their programming they would escape into another made-up world created by the machines that was even worse than the first. They’d be content knowing they’d escaped being under the control of the machines when in fact they really had never really escaped. Anyone else out there who thought they had the ending pegged before the last movie came out?
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