07-20-2010, 12:04 AM
"While Reeves relishes being a part of the Wachowski Brothers vision, it
remains a vision that the trilogy's directors themselves won't share
with the press. Keanu is reluctant to further define their vision in
their place, "because they don't want it defined. I don't think that's
something they're interested in giving to anyone who watches the film."
Reeves talked a bit about the philosophy of the Matrix. "What is reality, what is truth, what is fate, dealing with man and technology. What is AI? What is the real? And if real is just sensory perceptions why can't the matrix be as real and the whole aspect of finding authentic life." interview excerpts
"The parable of the movie only goes so far. It is an excellent device for
considering liberation and a perceived parallel existence but it is
just that another EXISTENCE! Once in that other existence one still has
to deal with existence. Existence itself has still not been penetrated." ~Lex
"WAKE-UP!" opening theme song.
[Reeves] begins to warm to his theme. "Those questions you have are also
strongly Neo's questions such as: Do you believe in fate? Why
not? I'm
not in control of my own life. That whole thing of asking those
questions
I think is Neo's journey and it was fun to ask them. I have a
feeling
about what Neo wants and the brothers had a feeling, so in the
second
one in an odd way I think they kind of invert what happened. In
the first
one, Thomas Anderson became Neo; his digital self became his
real self
and his fear of flying became him flying and there's a certain
aspect
in Reloaded where the hero gets inverted and we're back to Neo
as Thomas
Anderson. We see his fears, his personal kind of hopes
and his
vulnerabilities."
...a perceived parallel existence but it is
just that another EXISTENCE! Once in that other existence one still has
to deal with existence. Existence itself has still not been penetrated."
The value of dependent arising lies in seeing fallacy in this idea of self as independent and suffering and breaking apart those misconceptions. A part of this, a problem of not address exisitence directly, is one can turn to pseudo-truths as if they were absolute truth when they are not...if only to bring comfort to the sense of vulnerability conceived in ignorance, the "I" as having essence to protect.
remains a vision that the trilogy's directors themselves won't share
with the press. Keanu is reluctant to further define their vision in
their place, "because they don't want it defined. I don't think that's
something they're interested in giving to anyone who watches the film."
Reeves talked a bit about the philosophy of the Matrix. "What is reality, what is truth, what is fate, dealing with man and technology. What is AI? What is the real? And if real is just sensory perceptions why can't the matrix be as real and the whole aspect of finding authentic life." interview excerpts
"The parable of the movie only goes so far. It is an excellent device for
considering liberation and a perceived parallel existence but it is
just that another EXISTENCE! Once in that other existence one still has
to deal with existence. Existence itself has still not been penetrated." ~Lex
"WAKE-UP!" opening theme song.
[Reeves] begins to warm to his theme. "Those questions you have are also
strongly Neo's questions such as: Do you believe in fate? Why
not? I'm
not in control of my own life. That whole thing of asking those
questions
I think is Neo's journey and it was fun to ask them. I have a
feeling
about what Neo wants and the brothers had a feeling, so in the
second
one in an odd way I think they kind of invert what happened. In
the first
one, Thomas Anderson became Neo; his digital self became his
real self
and his fear of flying became him flying and there's a certain
aspect
in Reloaded where the hero gets inverted and we're back to Neo
as Thomas
Anderson. We see his fears, his personal kind of hopes
and his
vulnerabilities."
...a perceived parallel existence but it is
just that another EXISTENCE! Once in that other existence one still has
to deal with existence. Existence itself has still not been penetrated."
The value of dependent arising lies in seeing fallacy in this idea of self as independent and suffering and breaking apart those misconceptions. A part of this, a problem of not address exisitence directly, is one can turn to pseudo-truths as if they were absolute truth when they are not...if only to bring comfort to the sense of vulnerability conceived in ignorance, the "I" as having essence to protect.