A hundred times with the Matrix

“What the heck was that about?!?” That was my first reaction when I set my foot out of the theater about two or three years ago. I admit that I was blown away by all those fancy effects. I love it but hey, at least I should be able to know who that guy was, Neo. Ok, he’s got a move but what was he doing? It’s one of those things that you like but you can’t really talk about it.

I loved this movie too much to give up finding out what is a message the directors are trying to tell us. I watched it again and again and again. I guess more than 30 times up till now. Every time I watched it, I picked up some new ideas they tried to present in the movie. It’s flat but I felt like every time I watched it from different perspectives.

I just watched The Matrix Revolution (III) a couple days ago. It didn’t disappoint me but it did confuse me. I felt like I know you’re trying to say something but I just can’t get it. Ahgggg…

I talked to my cousin about this yesterday. I told her I don’t get it. She told me “You see, the statement the movie wants to make is that there’s no pure good or pure bad. There’s always good and bad in this world. Good cannot exist without bad and bad cannot exist without good. Things always have two different sides. We have to learn and live with it.”

Oh, I see. This is very true and the movie really does present that idea. And this is not only thing the movie says. I and my cousin found many Buddhism philosophies hidden everywhere in the movie. I still don’t fully understand the movie but I’d like to find out. Even though it really is confusing but like a guy from the production team of the movie said when he first got the script.

“I don’t know what is it about but I know I got something really cool here.”