(December 8, 2018 at 7:24 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: I think that was kinda the point of the Matrix. Mesh a lot of things together to give a different perception of reality.
I'd say it was to make people think about their reality.
Is our reality real or virtual?
(December 8, 2018 at 7:24 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: Some of it is also similar to the Infinity Wars movie. You have one being's view on reality becoming the determining factor for everybody else.
Well... that one being supposedly knew something that no one else knew and acted towards avoiding it.
Knowing the future is always a tricky proposition and, like Spock said, there are always possibilities... Perhaps the course of action that we see in the movies isn't the optimal one.
It certainly wasn't the most moral, the one resulting in the least suffering.
(December 8, 2018 at 7:24 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: In his mind, maybe he's doing a good thing. Eliminate half the population and once again the resources in the universe become sufficient. It's random, so he determines it to be fair.
Fair and random... but what if he's wrong?
What if there are enough resources in the Universe for all the sentient population?
I mean, in that movie's universe, there is something we call magic. Magic is real! Gods like Thor are real! Just generate more resources.
(December 8, 2018 at 7:24 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: Of course maybe the will to live with limited resources supersedes his view, so there has to be an opposition.
A superhero movie must have a villain. Villains, nowadays, cannot just be pure evil, so they must have some motivation. As faulty or skewed as it may be, there is a motivation, we get a story, lots of special effects, we pay tickets. Real money in exchange for a fictional story.
(December 8, 2018 at 7:24 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: Both movies have a moral dilemma that has to be dealt with, with the heroes in both choosing the reality that is natural rather than the one determined (Live in the real world outside the Matrix + Allow the world to exist as-is, even though the conditions could be made better by reducing the population).
Isn't the natural reality preferable by the majority of people?
If so, then the heroes are simply fighting to uphold the moral law - do the most good for the most people.