'The Matrix'
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'The Matrix'
Technological Determinist Perspective of the Film
'The Matrix'
What Is the Matrix?
The Matrix is the "world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth." It is the construction the world has become to hide the fact that we've known all along: we are slaves to a force much larger than our individual actions. It is the collective illusion of humanity sharing an artificial reality created by machines to keep them docile and helpless against their captors. But in plain English, the Matrix is simply the Technological Society come to its full fruition.
The Matrix envisions a world where artificial intelligence is not only more appealing than flesh and bone reality, but more intelligent than the species that created it. The Matrix arises at the point that the machine species realize that the human species is a virus, and will destroy the ecological balance between the environment and itself if left unchecked. Thus, the Matrix, while ostensibly being future technology's enslavement of the human race, in appearance actually resembles the industrialized world as we find it at the gasping end of the 20th Century. In other words, the Matrix is a trap the world has become. [Read Mercer Schuchardt, 1999]
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Technology and 'The Matrix'
The movie The Matrix, a visually dazzling box-office smash in the US, includes a series of spectacular special effects achieved with technology developed by Hampshire-based Snell & Wilcox.
The complex and challenging movie is the story of a man (Keanu Reeves) known only as 'Neo' who is a software author by day, computer hacker by night. He is recruited by a group of rebels who have made a crucial discovery about the world - it is actually a form of virtual reality, called 'The Matrix'.
The movie uses seamlessly integrated special effects to create the film's virtual...
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