The Matrix (1999) - Movie Night #63 FULL WATCHALONG
Added 2023-05-02 00:16:54 +0000 UTC
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I love this movie. It has soooo many themes and symbols you can dive into. But here are some basics. Hopefully it provides some high level explanationπ₯Ήπ«£
1. Humanity created AI (chatgpt?π₯²)it eventually became sentient and turned on them (shocking I know). The sentient AI Machines were powered by solar energy. Humans decided to nuke the atmosphere so no more sun, hoping that without a power source the Machines would stop existing. But jokes on humans cause the machines could be fueled by the power the human body naturally outputs (science blah)
So Machines start harvesting humans like crops to use as their power source. But making new humans to use for power would take to long the old fashioned hanky panky way so the Machines just start growing humans from scratch. And since the humans are just for fuel they plopped em in some goo and hooked them up to The Matrix.
2.The Matrix is the computer program the Machines created to act as a simulation they could plug their meatsack batteries brains into.
3. Some humans that survived the Machine Human war, are trying to bring down the machines and free humanity at large from the Matrix and the goo.
4. The surviving non meatsack battery humans live underground in a city called Zion,
5. The ship they were on(named after a Babylonian king in the Bible who had prophetic dreams) is not a space ship. They are on earth in the remains of a destroyed city the machines use as part of their human battery factory
6. Agents are sentient computer programs within the matrix thatβs it (running out of steam hereπ )
Jamaine Green
2023-05-03 06:23:02 +0000 UTC
It must be something with my system. When I click on it, it just says βSorry, this video does not exist.β Iβve never had this problem before.
Juley
2023-05-03 04:09:29 +0000 UTC
This was so fun to watch along with you guys and hear your thoughts!! Haven't seen this movie in forever but it's definitely as good as I remember
Michelle
2023-05-02 03:40:30 +0000 UTC
I have watched this so many times but really enjoyed watching it again with you guys. I hope you watch the other movies at some point
Joe Lancaster
2023-05-02 03:05:41 +0000 UTC
there's no link, just click on the video
lilly
2023-05-02 02:51:08 +0000 UTC
I canβt seem to access the link. Has it been uploaded?