Explain the Matrix Trilogy, in philosophical terms?

Answer 1

I doubt that can be done in paragraphs.
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Answer 2

Matrix Trilogy has always fascinated me for its amazing idea & it remains to be my all time favorite. Well, in spite of the fact that these 3 movies are fantasy based, yet they definitely are thought provoking. I've read in books and articles that Matrix has Biblical connotations. The movie speaks of waking from a "dream" world...that is from a world full of sin and destruction. It has characters that are both good and bad signifying the demons on one hand and God's people on the other. The implication is that a Savior will come to save all the people caught in the clutches of sin (just like in the Bible) and there are instances of Prophesies too of the advant of this person. That person in the movie being Neo, he ultimately had to sacrifice his life to redeem/ save the people from the machines. The war between man and machine signifying the end of the world, a la Armageddon. Now "love" is an element that has been brought into the movie to set the cash registers on a roll.

Sadly, some naïve minds (after watching these movies) have come to the conclusion that we, in reality, are being controlled by an external power or source. Just like in the movies, humans controlled by the machines. We may not overlook what happened in US just after the first Matrix movie was relased. Sniper incident in US has links to the movie. Whatever be the reason, we should always understand that there is a thin line demarcating reality and fantacy.

Answer 3

Look up 'Plato's cave', the two are very similar. Its speculating, among other things, that there could be a world beyond our understanding. Because all we know is this world we assume it is all that there is. Plato speculated that we are bound and deceived by our senses, and that there is, in reality, another, higher world out there that we cannot access, and this world is just an illusion and reflection that we accept because we do not know any better.
Likewise, in the Matrix, the world they live on is fake, but they don't know that. It is a mockery of the true world.

It's quite a hard aspect to explain.

Answer 4

The Matrix is a sophisticated ploy to bring Taoist philosophy to the masses through the use of antithesis.

You see, in the Matrix, all conflict is caused by differing perceptions of reality and a drive to discover "The Truth." But by attempting to solidify their concept of reality, the characters in the "real" world make themselves miserable. This is shown most clearly with the Cipher character, who longs to go back to the artificial reality of the computer world. "Ignorance is bliss."

The ignorance he refers to is in fact the intuitive perception valued by Taoists. He doesn't care what is "real" and what is not, since to give a name to something is to rob yourself of the understanding of that thing.

If the people in the Matrix were simply to accept what is around them, realizing that all reality simply is and defies human understanding, they would accept that it is the nature of sentient machines to use human beings as batteries just as it is in the nature of humans to generate more electricity than a 12-volt battery.

Their purpose was not to turn a human being into a battery, but to educate humanity in what it had forgotten, that it is a part of the natural world around it. Clearly, humans with their virus like behavior and scorching of the sky had forgotten this.

This is why the machines all spout Taoist philosophy and do martial arts. See?

Remember, you don't truly know someone until you fight them.

Answer 5

Is about the means took over the end.We created machine to service us(mean) so that we can ve better life, yet we got lost in the process,ended up the machine took over our life.

Answer 6

Octopuses might take over the world.

Answer 7

to be, or not to be, that is the question.