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The NSTP (Non - Spatial Thinking Process) Theory
This film is great. It is great not because it is action-packed, but because it is very philosophical. If it leads to fundamental questions like `Is reality an illusion?', then it points to the NSTP (Non - Spatial Thinking Process) theory, the idea that space is a virtual reality, a form of non-spatial mind. So according to the theory not space and spatial entities but non-spatial feelings or states of consciousness are the real physical or material substance in the universe. And there is probably a central non-spatial program that controls or modulates these (human or any non-superhuman) feelings. This idea, a major part of the superultramodern science, is supposed to be a possible solution to most of the most challenging problems in modern science/philosophy, including the wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics. Though we live in a spatial matrix, in reality the universe has no geometry. See the film. And read the theory. It might change the way you look at the world and yourself.

Reality's Wonderland
The Matrix is one of those movies that is only as good as you make it. Analyzing just the bare bones story, we have nothing more than a pseudo-religious allegory, in which Christ (Neo) becomes resurrected in order to save mankind from an illusory reality, perhaps ushering mankind into some Platonic realm of true essences and Forms and souls--whatever you'd prefer to call it. But even when horrid stories attempt to become allegories, the fun of interpretation renders the movie watchable. For all intents and purposes, however, The Matrix is not a *bad* movie. It is not a great movie, either. But those viewers willing to put something into the movie are going to walk away with a much more satisfying movie-watching experience.

There is so much symbolism, so many implications, so much intended meaning to dispute here! What is reality? Morpheus can't even answer this, offering the tentative definition that it *can* be defined as electrical impulses in our brain. But that, of course, can't be correct--for then the Matrix is just as "real" as Neo's ultimate arrival in "wonderland". Indeed, it is funny that Morpheus would refer to his idea of reality as wonderland.

Who are the enemies? The machines seem more than simple robots. They are sentient beings, using humans in much the same way humans had intended to use them. While the viewers, being human, are tempted to see the inversion of this reality as the "right" one, it would still be, logically, just as immoral. If we are justified in enslaving sentient machines, then why are not sentient machines justified in enslaving sentient biological organisms? And then there are so many more questions! How do we determine whether a thing is a machine? The flying, superhuman Neo the viewer is looking up to and cheering for, after all, is nothing more than a digital representation, no more a "real person" than the agents he is fighting! And if the "reality" is to preferred to the simulation, why does the movie center on the simulation? We glorify the heroics of some digital representation, when the real Neo is strapped into a chair, or cowering on some crusty ship eating white sludge. The values we are expected to hold are actually inverted by the movie-watching experience, with its explicit endorsement of escapism in its fantasy realm, with its emphasis of the glory attained in the fantasy world rather than the harsh existence of Neo's reality.

And why accept the man/machine distinction, anyway? The agents are capable of emotion, as one snarls that humans are nothing more than a virus destroying the world. And the humans are little more than machines as well. They have SOCKETS in their arms and heads. Programs can be DOWNLOADED into their brains. After an intense session of downloading programs into Neo, the operator exclaims, "He's a machine." Ah, but if he is a machine, he is the enemy!

I could go on and on like this. I could tell you why Cypher is the real hero, and why Neo is an antichrist. I could explore the religious allegory with more detail. I could explore the philosophical implications, the metaphysical questions roused by the movie. But that would take up pages upon pages.

It should be obvious, then, that this decent movie is indeed worthy of four stars when one invests some effort in analyzing its themes and symbols. With an unbiased, "objective" viewing, it is a three star movie at best--but that's not the way I viewed it. The extra star is thus masturbatory, a reward not for the movie, but for the pseudo-intellectual fluff it allows me to spout after an analysis.

AMAZING,GREAT,COOL...
There's no word to say how great this movie is! This is must-have in everybody's collection. Amazing actors,special effects,script,directors and everything. :) This is movie not only for s.c. fans,this is for everybody. Everyone find here something.

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