![]() ![]() What was particularly exciting to me as a philosopher of film was the way The Matrix actually What the captive humans experience very much resembles the real world ofġ999, the year of the film’s release, but really it is around 2200 and the world is a ruined wasteland. To keep humans from noticing what’s happening, they plug them into a huge interactive computer After a long and devastating war with humans, the victoriousĬomputers use humans only as energy sources, farming them in a huge industrial complex. In The Matrix, the Wachowski Brothers update this scenario by putting a bank of evil computers For this reason, he said, suppose that there is an evil genius, much like Godīut lacking his beneficence, who gets his kicks by giving you sensations but making sure the world contains Simply recognise that perceptions may be untrue, he needs a more concrete supposition to overcome the To keep his habitual beliefs at bay, he says that he needs to do more than The world, he realises, mightīe nothing like it appears. Senses can be deceived – to undermine his faith in perceptual truths. In his first Meditation, Descartes takes the fact that our perceptions can be mistaken – our Have in mind is the film’s updated version of the famous thought experiment devised by René Descartes. I found it fascinating for its ability to turn a philosophical issue into a visual experience. Not to say that I didn’t like the first Matrix film. I didn’t expect much from The Matrix Reloaded and I was not disappointed. SUBSCRIBE NOW Films The Matrix Reloaded Our movie maestro Thomas Wartenberg plugs himself into The Matrix Reloaded but says that philosophically, it was destined to be dull.
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