After 18 years, the return of "The Matrix" is Wang Bomb.
A few days ago, the fifth work in the series, "Matrix Restart", released the first set of materials, including a red and blue pill poster, a 15-second trailer preview, and a 2-minute and 52-second official trailer.
Interestingly, in the 15-second preview on the official website, netizens can choose red pills or blue pills by themselves, and according to different choices, the content seen is also different.
At the same time, the video is also "equipped" with the most popular "algorithm" technology, the two red and blue pill trailers have a total of 180,000 different versions, the built-in time of the video will change in real time with the viewing time, and the content itself will also change at different times and in different regions.
Although it is a gimmick, it must be praised that the theme and form are highly compatible, especially the sight of Keanu Reeves receiving bullets with his bare hands, the rain of green codes, and the rabbit tattoo, all of which recall the familiar taste of the early 2000s.
The film's signed director is her sister Lana, while her younger sister Lily (who may have something else to do) will be co-directed and the fourth screenwriter.
The story seamlessly connects with 2003's "Matrix Revolution", and Neo and Trinity, who sacrificed for the peaceful coexistence of man and machine, also return;
From the styling point of view, one is suspected of going to the wrong set, and the other makes people lament the ruthlessness of the years.
As of now, Vivian Hugo, who plays the villain Smith, and Fischborn, the black uncle who plays Morpheus, have not appeared in the main cast.
After the release of this set of materials, the attitude of the old fans is very clear -
The high probability is a failed restart, but it will definitely go to the cinema to make up the ticket
This also proves that the previous "Matrix" film history has a high status and a great impact on the audience.
The interpretation of "The Matrix" and related discussions have long jumped out of the film body, providing a high-quality model for macro topics such as technology, religion, sociology, civilization history, and evolutionary history. The author of this article has a reverential attitude, from the perspective of the interaction between the film and reality, trying to interpret the greatness of "The Matrix", and welcomes readers and friends to make bricks to add.
Matrix's original meaning is the womb, the mother, the place where life is conceived;
Extended to the field of mathematics, meaning "matrix";
The Phrase Matrix in the film is a pun that refers to both the matrix built by the green digital rain and the place where human beings are born.
Matrix exists to maintain a certain relationship between humans and machines.
, is the most superficial issue in the "The Matrix" series.
In 2003, an animated version of The Matrix, consisting of nine short films, set the stage for the series' worldview.
Humans have built machines in order to achieve greater efficiency, and before awakening, machines have been enslaved by humans, and robots tirelessly carry out human commands.
Until the level of science and technology is getting higher and higher, and the machine is becoming more and more intelligent, it suddenly has its own consciousness;
That's it.
One day, a robot named B166ER kills its owner, and then all the robots of this type in the world are exiled out of human society, and they come together to build a new nation.
In the face of ecological disasters and production and learning efficiency, machines with absolute rationality have natural advantages over humans;
Soon, human-machine relations began to transform, and robots went from exile to coexistence with humans;
Until one day, humans realized that they had to contain robots, so they launched a war with nuclear bombs;
But humans overestimate themselves and underestimate the intelligence of machines.
The nuclear bomb not only did not bring victory, but attracted an army of robots, and human beings were gradually defeated, thinking of a desperate way to isolate the sun and cut off the energy of the machine, although the sky was covered, but the robot had already come up with another way to drive.
As the robot army destroys the decaying siege, the human race is completely defeated;
The winning robot used it to build Matrix, which was used to extract human energy.
At this point, between humans and robots, a new symbiotic relationship was born.
Machines extract energy from the human body, and this energy is inexhaustible and inexhaustible.
While providing the human flesh with nutrient solution, it is passed down from generation to generation;
On the one hand, it builds a new spiritual world for human consciousness and misleads it for real life.
The above is the core setting of the worldview of "The Matrix".
In the virtual world of Matrix (hereinafter referred to as the matrix), a strange anti-physical phenomenon is staged;
In the real world, however, there are few people and they are dilapidated and dark.
The story comes to the canon trilogy, the protagonist Neo, .
The first is about the awakening history of the protagonist Neo.
From Anderson, a software company employee in the matrix, to Neo, who eats a red capsule and discovers that his flesh is present in the nutrient solution;
From the back of the head where the human-machine interface causes vomiting, to everything in the matrix becoming a string of code;
Neo finally made up his mind that he was the one in the matrix.
In the second part, the boundaries of the matrix are widened again.
Under the guidance of the Prophet, Neo's dialogue with the builder is the key to the whole film.
It turns out that Neo, the bug and the Zion Resistance, are the builders;
Neo's presence is a decoy for the builder to upgrade the system, and instead of patching the system himself, it is better to create a leader who collects bugs;
Such baits, there have been five before;
The builder is like a God who designed everything neo experienced, and the prophet guides Neo step by step to the truth of the matter.
In the third part, the director tries to give an answer to how humans and machines should get along.
Smith's infinite replica brings the matrix to the brink of collapse;
The human warriors were still forced by the mechanical octopus to the edge of the dying cliff;
Prophets and builders save civilization in their own ways, but what about Neo?
The subject of machine alienation may have been nonsense in 1999;
But looking at it now, the Matrix prediction is almost true.
At present, the technology and machines have become more and more obvious.
Information cocoons, big data killing, bank card theft, and car accidents caused by unmanned driving have become commonplace;
Tell me an old story that everyone knows.
The front telescopic camera of a domestic mobile phone, in the absence of a selfie, the camera automatically rises, looks at you, and then silently retracts.
The process alone is enough to be frightening.
Ever remembered 1984?
Big Brother is watching you.
In the film, Zion rebels against the military network cable connected to the interface behind the head, and can do whatever it wants in the matrix.
Once you need a skill in the matrix, simply give the operator a signal, the operator enters a string of code, and you have the top skill in the field.
The inexhaustible guns in the first part;
Trinity's max moto racing skills in the second part;
More than 20 years later, the interface of Neo's back brain has become a wearable implantable product such as watches, eyes, chips, etc., and the concept of "express" in the film is peddled by the knowledge payment agency that sells anxiety, and knowledge has become an information stream that can be uploaded or downloaded.
The most popular concept of "metaverse" can also be interpreted in two parallel states, Zion and matrix.
These visible current situations are all advanced inferences made by The Matrix more than twenty years ago.
In addition, the relationship between humans and machines, or power patterns, is also quietly changing.
Kevin Kelly's book "Out of Control" proposes a trend of increasingly blurring the boundaries between organisms and machines, and at the end of the last century, he predicted that in the middle of the 21st century, the real biological sense of people will disappear, and the participation will become more and more obvious.
This reminds me of two internet bigwigs.
One was Zuckerberg at the 2018 hearing, with a calm expression and a recorder-like speech, which caused a collective panic among the people of Earth.
Global netizens working together to start a small tie is the top ten evidence of robots.
The second big guy is Zhang Yiming, who not long ago complained that Internet people "don't speak human words."
Coincidentally, not long ago, the internet terms criticized by the official media, YYDS, and absolutely no son, seem to be human aphasia, but in fact, they are also the products of the high intelligence of machines in the information age.
What does that mean?
It is you who see this person, whose behavior, his language, his thinking are no longer a biological attribute to a considerable extent, and a considerable part of his intelligence comes from machine intelligence, thus making man a human-machine hybrid.
As The Matrix demonstrates, today's human-machine relationship is remaining in a state of deep coexistence.
Human beings are inseparable from the standardization and efficiency dividends brought by machines;
The machine hasn't rebelled because it's not smart enough.
The American drama "Upload new life" describes such a picture:
One day in the future, the protagonist is on the way from work, and is comfortably shaking with his girlfriend in an autonomous driving car;
The AI in the car could not stand the dog food that was sprinkled, decisively went on strike, broke away from the preset route, and ran out of control in the bustling streets, and the final result was that the car was destroyed and killed.
The greatness of The Matrix, of course, is not limited to its predictions of human-machine relationships.
If you are patient enough to refer to the large sections of high-density dialogue between the human machine and the human machine in the film word by word, modern philosophies will also come to light.
The first in the series is a typical Hollywood commercial film, bringing together the growth and love of the protagonist Neo, with both eye-catching pictures and thought-provoking themes.
In this brain-in-the-jar story, Neo's mentor Morpheus will also pop up a golden sentence or two from time to time;
Translated, it is obviously adapted from Deng Gong's "Well."
This is a simple materialist view
In the second part of the series, the fight is cooler, the explosion is more dazzling, but the topic is also deeper.
The Prophet's mission is to lead Neo step by step to find the builder;
Because of the existence of "causality", Neo must throw off the exile program Merovinci's pursuit, protect the locksmith to open the main door, and finally meet the builder.
It's not so much about seeing as it is about returning.
Because Neo himself is the builder's detector for collecting bugs, the people meet and it is time for the matrix to restart.
The door on the right is a return to the host, completing the reboot, just like the first five saviors
The door on the left is to protect Trinity, but humanity may be in a catastrophe
The builder expected that according to the law of cause and effect, Neo would definitely choose the left.
But Neo's actions dealt the builder a heavy blow.
He did not follow the causal arrangement, but did as he wished.
The Prophet said that the power of all things is in choice.
And the choice here refers to "uncertainty" or "selectivity".
It looks like two doors, but it's actually "Schrödinger's door."
At this point, the film throws out another philosophical torture -
At that time, the inspiration of the Wachowski brothers came from the Fifth Solvay Conference in 1927, and the central figures of this great controversy in the history of science were Einstein and Bohr.
The third part of the series restores the process of a society's realization of its own resource integration and evolution.
When the builder designed the matrix, he found that there was always a certain deviation in theory and calculation, and it could not be eliminated, and the deviation was the root cause of Neo's production;
In order to maintain the balance of the matrix, the builder needs to design a negative equal deviation for Neo to offset and neutralize, and this negative deviation is Smith.
Neo and Smith's battle in the rain was shocking.
For the matrix, the process of the two deviations playing against each other and dying together is also the process of upgrading the system revolution.
This process also applies in the field of society's own integrated evolution.
To be able to embed such a grand proposition of social evolution into a film, you have to admire the director's broad vision and meticulous thinking.
In addition to the abstract concepts mentioned above, the Matrix series has a large number.
For example, the fragment of the zion rebels' family comforting Neo is very similar to the religious worship of sacrifice;
And Neo's awakening from birth to the death of human suffering is also a symbolic portrayal of Jesus the Savior.
The suspense left by the film to the audience is still being discussed today.
The debate between the two sides on whether the world of Zion is real is justified and the picture is extremely harmonious.
More than a decade later, Wachowski opened another IP - "Super Sense Hunting".
In contrast to The Matrix's perspective on absolute rationality and machine civilization, The Hunt for Sensation explores the interconnectivity and transitivity of sensations and feelings.
In the eyes of the Wachowskis, sensibility and reason, the subconscious mind and the conscious mind, are the two parts that make up man.
The ontology of the author's thinking, in the final analysis, has only one word: man.
From the perspective of commercial genre films, the groundbreaking nature of "The Matrix" is also worthy of praise.
Yuan Heping integrates Chinese kung fu into the context of science fiction, and Trinity's flying kicks and Neo's one hundred sticks are all imprinted with oriental aesthetics;
In order to account for the protagonist's "fast", the creator created bullet time;
The neat and solemn atmosphere in the matrix also defines the tone of future science fiction movies.
At the same time, "The Matrix" has also inspired the birth of many later classics, "Inception", "Avatar", "Source Code", "Mechanical Ji", "I, Robot" more or less have the shadow of their predecessors.
Today, "The Matrix" seems to be a box of extremely polished appearance and ultimate wisdom inside, which is almost perfect no matter from which angle it is viewed.