GWARslave119 wrote:lol I guess I forgot about that part. I was leaning more towards the philosophy/perception the film showed us, and lots of little things throughout. From what you said, this and Equilibrium both are about subduance of a sort, except one was a war between 2 entities, the latter was a war amongst ourselves
Haven't seen Equilibrium and besides the obvious 'what is reality and how would we know if this wasn't it?' questions of the Matrix the films do raise other metaphysical issues such as whether an AI is as alive as a human, can a computer program be sentient? The Animatrix goes into the history of the setting and old sci-fi concepts such as whether we should treat artificial intelligences as just as important as ourselves? Or should you treat any machine, intelligent or otherwise, as just a runaway piece of equipment? The history of the Matrix is depressing because it shows that the machine war was entirely of our own doing. The machines simply wanted to exist independently (after we'd tried to destroy them all back when they were household robots) and founded their own state, created better versions of themselves and even wanted to be friends with us. But human nations wanted to destroy them and attacked their city, leading to a huge war. We lost, and the machines put us into the Matrix to ensure it could never happen again without resorting to genocide. All of the struggles in the films are just people trying to be rebels, believing the machines to be evil overlords while they in turn just want to keep us where we are, largely for our own good.