psyche

I think that when any product is successful, it takes an emotion or feeling and reminds you of it so powerfully that you will pay money to have it, lest you forget that feeling forever. I believe that The Matrix was so successful because it encompassed two main “film feelings” but in an original and interesting way. The first was obviously the sort of epic war idea but that was overplayed in the sequels and pissed people off, and the scenes inside The Matrix became completely abstract philosophy and a lot of people got lost there. However, in the first, it was inside The Matrix that the second theme was captured - the same thing that they really nailed in the Animatrix - and the Matrix Comics… SHIT are those two good… I don’t really know how to describe it - it connects people. It’s everyone living out their lives with a sneaking suspicion that they push to the back of their minds and ignore, something most people do successfully. It’s the millions of people independently awake at 03:00 eating Cap’n Crunch from the box, hunched over their computers, genuinely wondering what’s up, from disillusioned teenagers in families scraping by in the worse-off areas of New York to rich Japanese software engineers pausing from their jobs for five minutes to really think.

It’s that notion that there’s a whole world there somewhere - not really far away, but hidden. A happiness or a sadness, a profoundly different environment that one simply must discover.

I used to stay up because I had homework. Then I began to stay up out of habit, randomly increasing my general knowledge via Wikipedia. Now I don’t know why I stay up. When I am dead and my life has come to nothing of real value, whoever you are, I ask you to think hard. These ideologies and philosophies seem to divide us but really, across infinite distances they unite us. They are written in books, most of which are never read by the right people or lost in conversation with uninterested people. Everyone goes their own way.

So yeah, The Matrix. How is this all connected? I don’t know. I don’t.

Pax