Yes well it’s an explicit theme of the movie that for better or worse, real is real and fake is fake and there’s no substitute for the truth, however grim it is.
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Wake up from your shitty fake life into the real world that’s even worse.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s escapism versus reality. I didn’t think The Matrix is far more nuanced than I initially realised.
ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
There’s definitely more tear gas.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not about the better option, it’s which one is least worst
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
So you choose The Matrix? 🤔
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, but what kind of amateur hour distraction fantasy would be worse than real life?
Other than 40k, I mean.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sometimes I worry about 40k fans. Like “most times I hear about it.”
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Same with Fallout fans who are a bit too into the Brotherhood of Steel. “What is it you like about them, exactly? The suits or the xenophobia?”
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Why wouldn’t they have made the simulation awesome for everyone? Of course if you make it shitty some people might start to wonder about battery pod life in the cave.
Coconut1233@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Iirc in the first movie they say that the 1st version of the matrix was utopia, but the people got bored and rejected the world
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
That sounds like some capitalist propaganda.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If there’s no struggle, people will get bored enough to ask questions or adventurous enough to strain the program.
Or it’s a plothole. I might have seen the matrix twice, and don’t know how tightly designed it is.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
It was explained as the first basically in the movie