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^is the book turned into a book safe in The Matrix. Early in the movie, Neo pulls a mini-disk out of it to sell to his Mescaline-referencing friends, one of who
by cameron_b 6y ago
^is the book turned into a book safe in The Matrix. Early in the movie, Neo pulls a mini-disk out of it to sell to his Mescaline-referencing friends, one of whom has the white rabbit tattoo.
- danbolt 6y agoI'm not an expert on this sort of thing, but it's funny how in the film The Matrix is kind of like Plato's cave rather than Baudrillard's idea. The Matrix "not real" and can be overcome by the protagonists, but I feel like Baudrillard would suggest that the protagonists wouldn't be able to tell what was and what wasn't.
- smogcutter 6y agoBingo. The irony of the Matrix is that “reality” turns out to be... a generic heroic fantasy story. Just more layers of reference and representation.
- Barrin92 6y agoBaudrillard himself was even more dismissive. He argued that 'the matrix' was the kind of film that the matrix would make, and that the film deeply misunderstood his ideas by drawing such a sharp distinction between the real and the representation.
- chongli 6y agoThis was solved in the sequels. The real world in the first movie turns out to be just another layer of the matrix. You can try to peel back these layers but you can never know when you’ve reached the centre of the onion. Thus the real and the representation have been blurred together completely.
- at_a_remove 6y agoAnnoyingly, I was never able to find a copy with the same binding and cover as was in the film. It was probably doctored up as a prop but I thought it might be amusing to have.