RLG332H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Agent Smith, The Wachowskis
Document Summary
In a world disentailed to everything (in news and videogames) you have to amp it up. Neo and trinity entering the building is similar to when jesus enters an area of the money changers and drives them out: the violence teaches this in a more modern way. Only the increased levels of this stuff causes a message to be seen. The increase in violence could be used to make you buy a ticket or used to shock you into a new level of consciousness. People say that it could be all of them but it could be either of them. Etymologically, matrix comes from womb and has the same roots as matr or mother. Message: we are pawns and do not pay attention to the world but to technology. The world of signs takes senses and its how technology came about: marshal mcluuhan, 1964. The wachowski brothers claim that the matrix is a system of control.
