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Sunday, November 02, 2003

matrix?

the websters dictionary defines the word 'matrix' as a situation or surrounding substance within which something else originates, develops, or is contained. doesn't help much does it. notice how dictionaries are devised in such a way that you probably don't know the meaning of the word that they gave you as the meaning of the word you were looking for so you have to check out the meaning of two words (or sometimes even three) before you can find out the meaning of the word you were looking for in the first place. yes i know i'm confusing myself.

back to the topic...the matrix. i will try my best to dissect the movie and give you my opinions on the possible endings. i managed to catch the first installment of the matrix a few days back on dvd. it wasn't the way i remembered it. when i watched it for the first time...all i was interested in was the action scenes and the special effects of the movie. that was before i found out that there was going to be a second installment. when there's a continuation things are different. i tend to pay more attention to the storyline and the continuity of the whole movie. does it add up? is there a connection? blah blah blah....well...i have to admit that the first episode did have one of those 'what the fuck' type endings where you have no idea what happens next. now i know why.

but even then the whole movie is very vague. just when you think you know something the creators decide to twist it and there goes your assumption out the window. but hey...aren't assumptions the mother of all fuck ups. i've tried to dissect this movie over and over and over and still i have yet to reach a conclusion. i still have no opinion on whether it's a good tomato or a rotten one. no doubt...the action scenes and the special effects are spectacular but the essence of a movie lies in the script. and this script is running around the bush. i'm just glad that the final installment is coming out in 3 days. i hate watching movies without knowing the ending. that's one reason why i just had to read 'lord of the rings'. here's what i think....

i believe that the matrix could be a game of some sort. a strap on head device that allows him to participate in the game called 'enter the matrix'. he makes his own rules...he sets the stage...and he controls everything and anything within the game.

on the other hand....it could all be a dream. that would be one hell of an anti-climax don't you think. if Neo wakes up and goes "phews...it was only a dream" i swear i'll send a dagger to the wachowski brothers house. if that is their idea of a joke it seriously isn't funny.

if you were paying attention to colonel sanders in matrix reloaded (col. sanders being the supposed creator of the matrix who speak to neo somewhere at the end of the movie)....you would probably remember him telling neo that he has two choices. either he saves trinity and everyone in the real world dies...or he goes through the door and everyone lives. he also did mention that this is the fifth or sixth matrix that they have created and that all the previous matrix's were failures due to an anomaly in the system. if neo were to opt to save trinity and let everyone in the real world die...they would have to create another matrix with other humans and another 'one'. but if everyone in the real world is dead...how can they create another matrix? now that's what made me think that maybe the real world is the matrix. could it be a matrix within the matrix?

i could be completely wrong and everything could be different. like i said...the matrix has a way of making you believe something one minute and completely taking that away from you in the next. so i guess we'll have to wait till the movie comes out to find out the true ending. i personally have a feeling that it is going to be an anti-climax. i'm not exactly a fanatic so i have no idea what other points i might be missing. i'm telling it from what i see and hear from the first and second installment. that's my thoughts on the matrix.

one a brighter note...i went for a nice birthday dinner last night with some friends at mont kiara. it was an interesting night partly because i was with a different clique of friends...most of them i don't know very well but they are a bunch of funny and friendly people. met up with the usual gang at hartamas after that and did the usual pool and drinks routine. so much for trying to do something different...it was fun while it lasted :)