All right, human beings are being used as batteries by robots and their consciousness is plugged in to a virtual reality where everything is make-belief. The humans don't know this. What exactly is the problem? Why are the robots being portayed as evil. To the humans, it makes no difference whether they're in the matrix or if the real world is really real, they still experience the exact same thing. What was Morpheus fighting against?
2006-06-16 02:08:08 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
By the way, I haven't watched the movies, but I've heard people banging on about it for a few years now.
2006-06-16 02:16:52 · update #1
Ok, the big deal is freedom. Whether they know they are in a cage or not, they are in a cage. It's the same with animals, why should they live their lives in a cage because it makes someone else happy. The Truman Show is similar, he lives in a constructed world and never really has his own choices to make. Why should anyone or anything have to live in a construct rather than the real world where they can make their own choices and their own mistakes rather than the mistakes and choices that are mapped out for them by a program that establishes parameters that they must stay within. This is the big deal about the Matrix. Would you rather be able to make your own choices or would you rather be a battery? Someone else's life energy rather than your own?
2006-06-16 03:48:04 · answer #1 · answered by wyldcatt76 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The humans are fighting the fact that they are not given the choice of life, that everything in their life has been structured in the matrix and they are not in control of their own life's. They are being forced to live that "dream" in the matrix and all their basic rights have been taken away-such as the choices that make your own destiny. Plus in the real life they were used as mere energy power source and looked upon as nothing more then means to obtain energy. Its really hard to explain or argue about points of the movie without actually seeing it. My advise-watch the first movie first. I know that the movie is a fiction but honestly it did make me start thinking.
2006-06-16 09:22:06 · answer #2 · answered by fasb123r 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's what Cipher wanted! To live a life, in the Matrix, with the philosophy "ignorance is bliss". He even asked the agents to make him forget his entire experience in the real world. The point is the human freedom fighters wanted to live in the truth - living in the matrix was a big lie because none of it was really happening!
2006-06-16 09:13:57 · answer #3 · answered by Robby 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The point being that humans were slaves to the machines, that thier reality was manufactured to keep them sedate and functional. Even if they didn't know it, does that make it right? You really should see the films, there's a lot of weirdness about them, but in order to ask the proper questions you should first see what the fuss is.
2006-06-16 09:45:52 · answer #4 · answered by Kittycat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No human was given a choice. You take away the simple choice of "live" or "think you live while supplying juice to machines" and somebody's gonna fight. Hate to sound like that old guy with the pen-remote, but it all leads back to Choice.
2006-06-16 09:13:30 · answer #5 · answered by Rod B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they were just fighting for the truth, and for complete freedom. I don't think I would want to be used as a battery.
2006-06-16 09:14:58 · answer #6 · answered by shadowninja0128 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was all about freedom from being a battery.
2006-06-16 09:32:58 · answer #7 · answered by Rob 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freedom. Freedom to choose your own destiny instead of being forced into one not of your own choosing.
2006-06-16 09:25:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
he fights against the controlling influence of others over self
"to thine own self be true"
how if you are not aware of self.
2006-06-16 09:15:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Next time, take the RED PILL.
2006-06-16 09:12:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋