Thursday, May 20, 2010

blog 22

The matrix and existenz had the same ground. Both movies play with the ideas of virtual reality vs reality. But the take on these ideas are different. The matrix had lot of guns and existenz had goo lot of goo. although both film engage viewers in its illusory reality, The Matrix give more insight about whether we live in computer generated dream world. By reading Penetrating Keanu (Cynthia Freeland) I disagreed with her and felt like Matrix had more thought and much more complex. In this section the author seem to be focusing on gender and the role of the male and female in the movie. In The Matrix Keanu Reeve/Neo is a male leading figure aid by a subservient female, whereas Existenz had a woman as a leading role by making a woman a computer whiz and decision maker. The author judge the movie base on role of gender because she thing the Matrix is sexist. After watching Existenz I do not feel its was culturally relevant at all. The entire movie base on game within a game, confusing, hard to understand and does not leave any thought. Ever since the beginning of the movie I already know that the movie was a game. The same bone like gun used to shot Allegra was later see in the game as Ted used it to kill the Chinese waiter. The Matrix had more meaningful insight of reality because machine and human coexistent are something we all could relate to. The matrix made us wonder if we are living in the Matrix or what we see,feel,smell,hear and taste are real. The Matrix show us that human are different from machine because we have freewill. Neo willingly choose to see the matrix for himself and what he see is billion of human body, floating in a pod of pink goo nurturing by robots without consciousness. The thought of myself being floated in those pod is really scary, am I really have no control over myself physically and mentally? Could one day we be unplug and free from the Matrix? In the book Cynthia describe the Matrix ending scene where Keanu reeves is flying on the as typical cinematic movie and had no point, but there is. Neo ability to fly like superman show us that the Matrix is just a computer generated program, being a psychokinetic computer hacker Neo is able to unlock the matrix codes and do the impossible.

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