As first time relatively green directors, the studio had a lot of say over what they got to include. Often to the story’s detriment. Humans were originally processors instead of batteries (which makes a fuck ton more sense)
I always thought that in the end you would find out that the “real world” wasn’t actually real. The reality was that machines were not using them as batteries but were simply preserving the human race out of respect for their creators (like we preserve endangered species today). The machines were simulating multiple levels of a reality as some humans were stroking out or going mad as they discovered the simulation. The entire conflict was to deal with the human need for exploration and conflict in the face of control and restriction.
Smith even talks about it when he’s explaining how the first version of the Matrix was created to be a utopia.
It’s been so long since I watched it. Maybe this is an actual interpretation you could get from the ending and it’s why I thought it. I forget. But it made a lot more sense than being used as batteries.
Or the preservation of humans was deemed important because, well, humans are amazing. I think any artificial intelligence would be smart enough to know that organic life and billionaires of years of evolution were definitely something worth preserving. Even if that life could no longer live within the environment (climate change) that it once could.
Like, there are a million different better explanations than fucking batteries. So, even if that wasn’t the writers idea. I always found it much more satisfying to think this.
IIRC, in supplementary material (maybe the Animatrix?) it’s revealed that the machines kept trying to sue for peace, but the humans insisted it had to be genocide, so the machines settled on the Matrix as their way not to have to kill all humans.
Morpheus’ last line in the movie is “Is this real?” People have taken it and run with it. That coupled with the Oracle’s explanation that choice was the key to the current matrix’s success led people to believe that both the matrix and “the real world” are matrix instances and that the only way out would be to realize that fact and then reject the system wholesale. It also explains why Neo’s abilities still work in the real world as well. And again, explain the fucking batteries line.
Thanks. It’s been awhile since I watched the second and third movies. I just knew it ended without clarity and being open to interpretation. Which I guess allows me to project my own story onto it where humans are basically being preserved as organic life forms. Or even don’t exist organically at all. I enjoy writing that allows for that open ending.
On a first viewing, if you turn your brain off, batteries make enough sense. But don’t sit back and ponder how many calories the machines had to pump into the humans to get a few volts out. :)
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first timerelatively green directors, the studio had a lot of say over what they got to include. Often to the story’s detriment. Humans were originally processors instead of batteries (which makes a fuck ton more sense)I always thought that in the end you would find out that the “real world” wasn’t actually real. The reality was that machines were not using them as batteries but were simply preserving the human race out of respect for their creators (like we preserve endangered species today). The machines were simulating multiple levels of a reality as some humans were stroking out or going mad as they discovered the simulation. The entire conflict was to deal with the human need for exploration and conflict in the face of control and restriction.
Smith even talks about it when he’s explaining how the first version of the Matrix was created to be a utopia.
It’s been so long since I watched it. Maybe this is an actual interpretation you could get from the ending and it’s why I thought it. I forget. But it made a lot more sense than being used as batteries.
Or the preservation of humans was deemed important because, well, humans are amazing. I think any artificial intelligence would be smart enough to know that organic life and billionaires of years of evolution were definitely something worth preserving. Even if that life could no longer live within the environment (climate change) that it once could.
Like, there are a million different better explanations than fucking batteries. So, even if that wasn’t the writers idea. I always found it much more satisfying to think this.
IIRC, in supplementary material (maybe the Animatrix?) it’s revealed that the machines kept trying to sue for peace, but the humans insisted it had to be genocide, so the machines settled on the Matrix as their way not to have to kill all humans.
Morpheus’ last line in the movie is “Is this real?” People have taken it and run with it. That coupled with the Oracle’s explanation that choice was the key to the current matrix’s success led people to believe that both the matrix and “the real world” are matrix instances and that the only way out would be to realize that fact and then reject the system wholesale. It also explains why Neo’s abilities still work in the real world as well. And again, explain the fucking batteries line.
Thanks. It’s been awhile since I watched the second and third movies. I just knew it ended without clarity and being open to interpretation. Which I guess allows me to project my own story onto it where humans are basically being preserved as organic life forms. Or even don’t exist organically at all. I enjoy writing that allows for that open ending.
On a first viewing, if you turn your brain off, batteries make enough sense. But don’t sit back and ponder how many calories the machines had to pump into the humans to get a few volts out. :)
“Combined with a form of fusion”
There we go, all fixed!
Nonono see , it’s bioelectricity …which is uh, different.
I just mentally replaced “battery” with “processor” anyway.
They had directed Bound before this
Thank you for keeping me honest. I’ll update