Discusing a Movie That Enjoyed Popularity Years Ago

On a previous post on this blog I have discussed some movies such as Transformers that are marketed at a certain demographic. There are many movies like this mostly comic book adaptations and cheap looking Nicholas Cage movies where most of the budget went into his hairstyle.

My problem with these movies is that complex themes are replaced with loud noises and quick cuts. There are no adult themes or complex ideas going on in these movie. No Transformers is fucking Sweet Sixteen with robots.

It is too much to ask to have a movie made by adults for adults. That is why I will say one of the great action movies to come out over the last decade had to be The Matrix because it revolutionized the way movies are filmed and also for the fact that it was a movie with complex ideas and weighty issues that adults could enjoy without having to turn their brains off.



For instance the following scones dealed with complex issues like how humans need misery and how it defines not only how we see the world but how it defines our experiences, the way humans seem to consume and define reality. I find it most interesting when the Agent Smith character tells the guy from Higher Learning that he is not even sure if he hates the smell since smell is an aspect of life that humans have defined.

What I found most interesting about this movie when I randomly watched about fifteen minutes of this weekend because it was on TNT was after a training simulation program which the two main characters were using to do kung fu it was revealed that even though The Matrix is not real your brain is processing it to be real so it treats it as being real.

This made me stop to think and really examine how the human mind works. Many immediate thoughts went through my mind such as that our own perception is what we use to gauge reality but in actuality it is not reality and only is what our mind can comprehend. But iF this was true does that mean because I perceive something to be true makes it reality; the paradox being there can be no true universal reality. But that can't be true because there are basic understanding of what reality is. Even movies that aren't as fully realized but make me think about concepts such as these will receive higher praise from me then it might be warranted.

What made me think the most was how if you do die in The Matrix you do in real life because as the guy from Higher Learning told the guy from Speed that the "body needs the mind to live." Basically if you get shot in the Matrix you will die because your mind will process the gunshot like it actually happened. This gave me the most pause. Could a human brain actually convince your body that you were shot. Can it simulate the loss of blood and damage to vital organs and the body going into shock? This seems unlikely unless we go back to a point earlier in how our mind will actually define reality.

These are all weighty issues that I know I have not discussed in any sort of detail. I guess my main point is that I would like to see more movies with complex ideas such as The Matrix instead of movies about a guy who has claws in his hands. I would like to see more movies like this and less shit like Transformers. I'll never be able to perceive why anyone would like a Michael Bay movie.