The Matrix

The Matrix raised many questions about reality and the manipulative powers of technology, which I similarly plan to use in my final film creation. In the same way that the "Agents" function in The Matrix, as a government that has come into power because they were more powerful and able to use human bodies as batteries for their existence, I plan to portray the U.S. government as sucking the life out of the young minds of American children in order to fuel their own operations in efforts for world domination. Neo plays the role of world savior because he "The One" who will see through the technology and be able to read the Matrix world, manipulating it to his will. This type of control over the technology could only be aquired by a human. I often found with the films in this class that humanity suprassed its trials or that humans over came the invasive technology they created, just as Neo over powers the Agents. I wonder why humans continue to create technology, that they eventually simply have to fight down or destroy in many cases in order to proctect the human race. It makes me think if we CAN stop ourselves or if the possibilities and unknowns, even if the poorer outcome seems inevitable, are too tempting to stop and ourselves. If the inevitability of our technology overpowering the human race becomes statistically inevitable like, for instance, global warming, would people respond to it and begin to prevent the destructive powers of technology? Or, as with global warming, because technology (like pollution) has been on a gradual decrease and the reprecussions have been seemingly insignificant in comparison to the positive contributions techonology has played in society, will be sit by and watch our own computers destroy us.

The Matrix opens many intersting questions, and addresses a similar, yet still serious issue of whether humans will continue to be able to control out machines. I think the control is completely possibly, but whether we begin to see how necessary it is to take statistics or even these types of creations of the imagination (these movies) seriously, and watch ourselves--that is another question. Whether we will understand the subtle signs and be able to be moderate with our power, seems inevitably to indicate that we will not because history shows that humans want power, world domination, not in fictiosn and movies, but in reality, in war.

If we create machines to function like the human mind, then they too will find the need for domination, greed, and power, just as humand kind historically has proven to suffer. Therefore, humanity's greed and un-checked progress with technology seems to predict that we will create machines that think like us, and in our most advanced moments, act like us, and find a way to conquer the human body, just as it shows to do in The Matrix.