Comment on The Matrix

• Coconut1233@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That sounds like some capitalist propaganda.

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It was also part of a villain speech, so not a reliable narrator.

      Given that earlier versions of agents were basically supernatural monsters, I kind of doubt it was much of a utopia.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Right, what are they gonna say. “The first simulation was basically hell where people lived in constant torture, and they didn’t like that so much 🤷”

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    • plutopos@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      more like the writers couldn’t think of a better reason imo

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• idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It was explained as the first basically in the movie

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