Media Sample Essay | Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Reloaded is a continuation of the first movie The Matrix - and that is what viewers should remember. But how is this second part uploading itself into the uniqueness of the trilogy?
The Matrix comes reloaded with an entire new form of popular culture. Since the first Matrix film was released in 1999, there have been many books written about it, thousands of websites have been introduced, millions of fans have been reediting their 'bibles', hundreds of people have copied the moves, and others have read Descartes and Baudrillard (but not fully understood them) and have also seen Akira.
A whole new wave in popular culture has been introduced by the Wachowski brothers, who wrote and directed this movie. What is the secret of its power?
As we are moving towards a digital culture the simulation relationships that we encounter while consuming images in our society are building up rapidly.
The technology itself is consumed as a sign or value exchange and is displaying people's simulation relations within the world around in ways they could only dream.
Today, as we increasingly live inside lifelike fictions and re-create our surroundings as an endless form of immersive fiction, we must wonder what will become of human nature.
Will it change or will we end up re-enacting the same things our ancestors of Lascaux Caves did (which may be one of humanity's earliest narrative compositions [1], but in increasingly spectacular forms?
The Matrix genre focuses much of its attention on the most impressive of these new forms of simulation, which is able to make it seem that the imaginary places and situations we know from myths and philosophies have come to life, such as Virtual Reality, 3D Cinema, etc.
This story describes how science and technology are allowing us to reshape the world so it conforms to our desires, just as simulation is allowing us to invent imitation worlds that do the same thing.
We are at certain stages of the world civilization that is characterized by the ability to manipulate the 'world of nature' and 'worlds of illusion'.
In this way fans around the world, and the majority of them in the western societies, see this as their 'bible'- a road-map to predict the future.
- Showing a man with the face (or mask) of a bird, engaged in an apparently fatal disagreement with a wounded bison. As the bison uses its head and horns as a weapon, the man falls stiffly back, apparently to his death
