Description
Thoughts taken from TV, Books and life experiences on various topics and given a Christian slant to stimulate thoughts. The topic here for Day 33 is 'A deeper reality to the universe' with reference to hit movies of 1999 'The Matrix'.
Bible reading: Luke 18:31-43
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Extract:
‘Welcome to the desert of the real,’ says Morpheus to Neo in The Matrix, the hit movie of 1999. I
love that movie and enjoy it more than the sequels that followed. It has achieved the unique status
of teenage cult movie and being the subject of a philosophy module at Washington State
University. It was one of a number of movies that explored ‘virtual reality’ – worried by the way
that our experience of life is mediated by the television, internet and news organizations. From
David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ to Tom Cruise’s character’s difficulty of knowing whether he is
dead in Vanilla Sky, there is the fundamental problem of knowing what is real. In addition, The
Truman Show suggests that there is a ‘real’ life and an artificial one that we need explicitly to
dismantle in order to see things as they really are.
The Matrix, written and directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski, tells the story of an office
worker, Neo, who is helped to see that The Matrix is a collective virtual reality construction
designed to subjugate his mind while his physintelligence machines that now rule the Earth.
Continues ....
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These Meditations are taken from the book 'Life, The Universe And Everything' by David Wilkinson - Click Here