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Let me start off by saying that when the Matrix first came out, I thought it was a pretty cool movie. I was excited when the sequel came out a few years later (the last movie was just terrible).
With a lot info out now about how we are entering a new age (Aquarius) and the rising energy/vibration of not only ourselves and the planet but the solar system, it seems that we are primed for many individuals all over the planet to become more spiritually aware. When an individual does go through a spiritual awakening or enlightenment, it is not always smooth and pretty. In many cases, it involves what many would describe as an intense and scary ego death. One of the experiences that may occur with this “dark night of the soul” is an overwhelming bombardment of synchronicitites. I actually experienced this and the level of synchonicities smacking me in the face was almost too much — to the point where I felt like I was in a dream world. This feeling made me think about the Matrix movie.
With this experience, I began to see the Matrix movies as not only misleading, but dangerous. What is the thing that Neo asks for right before he goes back into the Matrix for the last time in the first movie? Guns — the last thing on this planet that anyone in an altered psychological/spiritual state needs. In my own case, I have never owned a gun and will never own one, I didn’t even think of causing harm to another person, but I can see how someone who is scared and has a tendency to be aggressive could go the “Neo” route in a defense mode. I’m going to post two articles below that talk a little more about this possibility.
My question is, is it unreasonable to think that this movie could have been preemptive attempt to hi-jack what could have been a positive revolution? Instilling fear, aggression and violence into what could have been infused with love and compassion? I’m curious what others think about this:
Is the Matrix’s Neo Actually a Brainwashed Terrorist?
http://media.gunaxin.com/neo-matrix-brainwashed-terrorist/150796
Let’s assume for a moment that we are not all trapped inside of massive incubators used to perpetuate the rule of the machines. Lets also make the assumption that we live in a world where the character of ‘Neo’ can happen anyway. If the Matrix was seen completely as a psychedelic fantasy strictly from Neo’s point of view, then try to imagine an elaborate set-up in which Thomas A. Anderson was turned into a soulless terrorist who cost hundreds if not thousands of people their lives.
Impossible, you may say. However, it is actually infinitely more possible than the alternative. Lets look at the Matrix through the lens of a few other movies and situations. As exhibit A, we present you with The Manchurian Candidate.
Neo may have a lot more in common with the character of Raymond Shaw than previously thought. Shaw is captured with his unit in Korea, then held captive and systematically brainwashed. After the brainwashing, Shaw is let loose back in the regular world and is controlled through symbols and cues. Now, lets take a slightly more critical eye at what happens in the Matrix. How does Neo ‘wake up’ in the ship? Oh yeah, he is given a drug by a known terrorist.
How did Neo even come to meet the known terrorist? He was directed there by Trinity. Who is Trinity? She is a known computer hacker. What’s more? She has recently murdered an entire room full of police officers.
If you watch the movie from the beginning with a relatively open mind, you cannot really tell who the ‘good guys’ and who the ‘bad guys’ are. After all, Agent Smith was attempting to save the lives of police officers by ordering them not to go after Trinity. Trinity proceeded to murder everyone in the room without a second thought. This is exactly what Smith said she would do.
To review, a cop killer has taken you to a known terrorist. The terrorist drugs you. After the drugs have taken effect, you are unable to move, all your body hair has been removed, and your entire body has been rigged to ingest implants. You are not in prison but told you can never leave or go back to your previous life. For the record, mind control with drugs as well as cutting a person off completely from family, friends, and previous society is exactly how cults tend to operate.
This is all after Anderson was specifically warned by Smith that he knew nothing about how Morpheus operated. Morpheus, as well as the others, will only refer to Anderson by his hacker identity ‘Neo.’ The next step is to convince ‘Neo’ that the entire world is their enemy and the apocalypse is coming. They leave no room for possible trust or another theory being given by the outside world.
If law enforcement knew that there was a way to get to this dangerous cultish terrorist cell, it would seem perfectly logical that they would try to bug him. It would seem almost irresponsible if they did not. Once Neo has been thoroughly brainwashed and trained, then he is let back into the outside. He is then controlled through phone calls and code words. This is also exactly how Raymond Shaw is controlled in The Manchurian Candidate.
What is the purpose? Once ‘Neo’ has bought into everything and been fully trained, he can be released out into the world as an assassin, just like Raymond Shaw was. It doesn’t matter why Neo is blowing things up or killing as long as he is blowing up and killing the right people and places.
What if Neo was caught and told some one what the truth was? The government is a virtual reality simulation meant for the machines and he stands alone as an awoken Messianic vigilante? How well exactly do you think that would go over? Wait, haven’t we actually heard that one in the ‘real world.’? (reference to David Koresh).
Regardless of the reasoning, what is it that Neo ends up doing? He walks right into a government controlled building and starts indiscriminately killing people.
He has two objectives. First, he needs to free a terrorist under capture who is undergoing ‘enhanced interrogation techniques.’ This terrorist knows how to access his terrorist cell mainframes which is called Zion. Incidentally, this brings a whole religious jihad nature to what these ‘enemy combatants’ are actually doing. They have apparently created a military installation within a cave system which would take a massive military operation to drill into and sweep out.
There is also a secondary mission which Neo accomplishes. Neo directs an unmanned helicopter and turns it into a large bomb destroying an adjoining building. More than likely, that building was the target of the terrorist plot all along.
This should all look jarringly familiar. Most all terrorists tend to think what they are doing is exactly right and has the strength of moral superiority. In Neo’s case, fighting the rule of the machines was simply the most convenient way to accomplish the goal in the shortest amount of time.
It’s like the JFK discussion about Lee Harvey Oswald. It doesn’t matter what they told him. It matters that he was in the right place at the right time doing exactly what they wanted him to do.
You may argue “What about all the rest in the Matrix? What about the supernatural stuff and people disappearing by phone? What about the strength, the kung fu, and the remote killing?” Have you ever noticed how many times Neo seems to wake up during the Matrix. Go ahead and count the number of times his eyes open at some point. Neo is either drugged or under some form of post- hypnotic suggestion through the entire movie. Most all of it could have been done with a constant stream of enhancing drugs as well as merely making him pass out and move the body to create an illusion.
There is not a scene in which Neo is not being actively controlled through the entire movie. He can shoot anyone as an ‘agent.’ It is merely incidental that they seem to turn into a real dead person after he does it. Neo doesn’t even realize that he has done anything wrong. This all makes Neo one of the scariest characters in the history of cinema, and a terrorist.
Does the Matrix inspire the disturbed?
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=125158
Could the The Matrix movie phenomenon really inspire violent or mentally disturbed individuals to act out sadistic fantasies?
The Matrix Reloaded made Hollywood history this weekend when it took in $93.3 million at the box office, generating the highest-grossing R-rated opening ever.
Meanwhile, the original film, The Matrix, which inspired the sequel, has been linked to several violent crimes over the past four years.
The plot of the film, which blurs the line between reality and fantasy, is that computers have taken over the Earth, leaving some humans existing in a computer-simulated world where they battle for survival.
Columbine Massacre
When Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold attacked Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, killing 13 people and themselves, investigators said the killers evoked Neo, Keanu Reeves' character in The Matrix.
The two teens were known for wearing long black trench coats similar to the one "Neo" wears in the film and for calling themselves the trench coat mafia.
The Movie Defense
Attorneys for a 19-year-old who shot his parents to death last February claim he was obsessed with The Matrix.
Josh Cooke, of Oakton, Va., shot his parents with a 12-gauge shotgun that was similar to one of the weapons "Neo" uses in the film.
Cooke wore a trench coat, had a huge poster from the film in his room and even believed he lived inside The Matrix, his defense attorney, Rachel Fierro, has argued.
Lee Malvo, one of the accused Washington-area snipers, is said to have been obsessed with the world of blurred realities and mind control portrayed in The Matrix as well.
A note written by 18-year-old Malvo in jail reads: "Free yourself of The Matrix."
University of Wisconsin communications professor Joanne Cantor says there have been other murder cases in which criminals referenced other violent films, but the professor says perpetrators who reference The Matrix tend to provide many more details from the film.
"I think all violent movies have some tendency to encourage violence in particularly susceptible individuals," Cantor said on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America. "This movie, I think, has an extra component of the blurring between fantasy and reality," she said.
It's not known if The Matrix will form part of Malvo's defense, but the defense has been used successfully in a few murder cases across the country.
‘Not Guilty’
Vadim Mieseges, 27, of San Francisco dismembered his landlady without provocation three years ago. He told police he did it after he had been "sucked into The Matrix." A judge accepted his plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
Tonda Lynn Ansley of Hamilton, Ohio, made references to the film after she was arrested in the July 2002 fatal shooting of Sherry Corbett, 55, a Miami University professor whose house she had been renting.
Ansley's statement to police made reference to the The Matrix as she suggested that she was drugged to make her think the things she envisioned were dreams.
"They commit a lot of crimes in The Matrix. That's where you go to sleep at night and they drug you and take you somewhere else and then they bring you back and put you in bed and, when you wake up, you think that it's a bad dream," she told police.
A judge ruled that Ansley was innocent by reason of insanity last week at a pretrial hearing.
With a lot info out now about how we are entering a new age (Aquarius) and the rising energy/vibration of not only ourselves and the planet but the solar system, it seems that we are primed for many individuals all over the planet to become more spiritually aware. When an individual does go through a spiritual awakening or enlightenment, it is not always smooth and pretty. In many cases, it involves what many would describe as an intense and scary ego death. One of the experiences that may occur with this “dark night of the soul” is an overwhelming bombardment of synchronicitites. I actually experienced this and the level of synchonicities smacking me in the face was almost too much — to the point where I felt like I was in a dream world. This feeling made me think about the Matrix movie.
With this experience, I began to see the Matrix movies as not only misleading, but dangerous. What is the thing that Neo asks for right before he goes back into the Matrix for the last time in the first movie? Guns — the last thing on this planet that anyone in an altered psychological/spiritual state needs. In my own case, I have never owned a gun and will never own one, I didn’t even think of causing harm to another person, but I can see how someone who is scared and has a tendency to be aggressive could go the “Neo” route in a defense mode. I’m going to post two articles below that talk a little more about this possibility.
My question is, is it unreasonable to think that this movie could have been preemptive attempt to hi-jack what could have been a positive revolution? Instilling fear, aggression and violence into what could have been infused with love and compassion? I’m curious what others think about this:
Is the Matrix’s Neo Actually a Brainwashed Terrorist?
http://media.gunaxin.com/neo-matrix-brainwashed-terrorist/150796
Let’s assume for a moment that we are not all trapped inside of massive incubators used to perpetuate the rule of the machines. Lets also make the assumption that we live in a world where the character of ‘Neo’ can happen anyway. If the Matrix was seen completely as a psychedelic fantasy strictly from Neo’s point of view, then try to imagine an elaborate set-up in which Thomas A. Anderson was turned into a soulless terrorist who cost hundreds if not thousands of people their lives.
Impossible, you may say. However, it is actually infinitely more possible than the alternative. Lets look at the Matrix through the lens of a few other movies and situations. As exhibit A, we present you with The Manchurian Candidate.
Neo may have a lot more in common with the character of Raymond Shaw than previously thought. Shaw is captured with his unit in Korea, then held captive and systematically brainwashed. After the brainwashing, Shaw is let loose back in the regular world and is controlled through symbols and cues. Now, lets take a slightly more critical eye at what happens in the Matrix. How does Neo ‘wake up’ in the ship? Oh yeah, he is given a drug by a known terrorist.
How did Neo even come to meet the known terrorist? He was directed there by Trinity. Who is Trinity? She is a known computer hacker. What’s more? She has recently murdered an entire room full of police officers.
If you watch the movie from the beginning with a relatively open mind, you cannot really tell who the ‘good guys’ and who the ‘bad guys’ are. After all, Agent Smith was attempting to save the lives of police officers by ordering them not to go after Trinity. Trinity proceeded to murder everyone in the room without a second thought. This is exactly what Smith said she would do.
To review, a cop killer has taken you to a known terrorist. The terrorist drugs you. After the drugs have taken effect, you are unable to move, all your body hair has been removed, and your entire body has been rigged to ingest implants. You are not in prison but told you can never leave or go back to your previous life. For the record, mind control with drugs as well as cutting a person off completely from family, friends, and previous society is exactly how cults tend to operate.
This is all after Anderson was specifically warned by Smith that he knew nothing about how Morpheus operated. Morpheus, as well as the others, will only refer to Anderson by his hacker identity ‘Neo.’ The next step is to convince ‘Neo’ that the entire world is their enemy and the apocalypse is coming. They leave no room for possible trust or another theory being given by the outside world.
If law enforcement knew that there was a way to get to this dangerous cultish terrorist cell, it would seem perfectly logical that they would try to bug him. It would seem almost irresponsible if they did not. Once Neo has been thoroughly brainwashed and trained, then he is let back into the outside. He is then controlled through phone calls and code words. This is also exactly how Raymond Shaw is controlled in The Manchurian Candidate.
What is the purpose? Once ‘Neo’ has bought into everything and been fully trained, he can be released out into the world as an assassin, just like Raymond Shaw was. It doesn’t matter why Neo is blowing things up or killing as long as he is blowing up and killing the right people and places.
What if Neo was caught and told some one what the truth was? The government is a virtual reality simulation meant for the machines and he stands alone as an awoken Messianic vigilante? How well exactly do you think that would go over? Wait, haven’t we actually heard that one in the ‘real world.’? (reference to David Koresh).
Regardless of the reasoning, what is it that Neo ends up doing? He walks right into a government controlled building and starts indiscriminately killing people.
He has two objectives. First, he needs to free a terrorist under capture who is undergoing ‘enhanced interrogation techniques.’ This terrorist knows how to access his terrorist cell mainframes which is called Zion. Incidentally, this brings a whole religious jihad nature to what these ‘enemy combatants’ are actually doing. They have apparently created a military installation within a cave system which would take a massive military operation to drill into and sweep out.
There is also a secondary mission which Neo accomplishes. Neo directs an unmanned helicopter and turns it into a large bomb destroying an adjoining building. More than likely, that building was the target of the terrorist plot all along.
This should all look jarringly familiar. Most all terrorists tend to think what they are doing is exactly right and has the strength of moral superiority. In Neo’s case, fighting the rule of the machines was simply the most convenient way to accomplish the goal in the shortest amount of time.
It’s like the JFK discussion about Lee Harvey Oswald. It doesn’t matter what they told him. It matters that he was in the right place at the right time doing exactly what they wanted him to do.
You may argue “What about all the rest in the Matrix? What about the supernatural stuff and people disappearing by phone? What about the strength, the kung fu, and the remote killing?” Have you ever noticed how many times Neo seems to wake up during the Matrix. Go ahead and count the number of times his eyes open at some point. Neo is either drugged or under some form of post- hypnotic suggestion through the entire movie. Most all of it could have been done with a constant stream of enhancing drugs as well as merely making him pass out and move the body to create an illusion.
There is not a scene in which Neo is not being actively controlled through the entire movie. He can shoot anyone as an ‘agent.’ It is merely incidental that they seem to turn into a real dead person after he does it. Neo doesn’t even realize that he has done anything wrong. This all makes Neo one of the scariest characters in the history of cinema, and a terrorist.
Does the Matrix inspire the disturbed?
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=125158
Could the The Matrix movie phenomenon really inspire violent or mentally disturbed individuals to act out sadistic fantasies?
The Matrix Reloaded made Hollywood history this weekend when it took in $93.3 million at the box office, generating the highest-grossing R-rated opening ever.
Meanwhile, the original film, The Matrix, which inspired the sequel, has been linked to several violent crimes over the past four years.
The plot of the film, which blurs the line between reality and fantasy, is that computers have taken over the Earth, leaving some humans existing in a computer-simulated world where they battle for survival.
Columbine Massacre
When Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold attacked Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, killing 13 people and themselves, investigators said the killers evoked Neo, Keanu Reeves' character in The Matrix.
The two teens were known for wearing long black trench coats similar to the one "Neo" wears in the film and for calling themselves the trench coat mafia.
The Movie Defense
Attorneys for a 19-year-old who shot his parents to death last February claim he was obsessed with The Matrix.
Josh Cooke, of Oakton, Va., shot his parents with a 12-gauge shotgun that was similar to one of the weapons "Neo" uses in the film.
Cooke wore a trench coat, had a huge poster from the film in his room and even believed he lived inside The Matrix, his defense attorney, Rachel Fierro, has argued.
Lee Malvo, one of the accused Washington-area snipers, is said to have been obsessed with the world of blurred realities and mind control portrayed in The Matrix as well.
A note written by 18-year-old Malvo in jail reads: "Free yourself of The Matrix."
University of Wisconsin communications professor Joanne Cantor says there have been other murder cases in which criminals referenced other violent films, but the professor says perpetrators who reference The Matrix tend to provide many more details from the film.
"I think all violent movies have some tendency to encourage violence in particularly susceptible individuals," Cantor said on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America. "This movie, I think, has an extra component of the blurring between fantasy and reality," she said.
It's not known if The Matrix will form part of Malvo's defense, but the defense has been used successfully in a few murder cases across the country.
‘Not Guilty’
Vadim Mieseges, 27, of San Francisco dismembered his landlady without provocation three years ago. He told police he did it after he had been "sucked into The Matrix." A judge accepted his plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
Tonda Lynn Ansley of Hamilton, Ohio, made references to the film after she was arrested in the July 2002 fatal shooting of Sherry Corbett, 55, a Miami University professor whose house she had been renting.
Ansley's statement to police made reference to the The Matrix as she suggested that she was drugged to make her think the things she envisioned were dreams.
"They commit a lot of crimes in The Matrix. That's where you go to sleep at night and they drug you and take you somewhere else and then they bring you back and put you in bed and, when you wake up, you think that it's a bad dream," she told police.
A judge ruled that Ansley was innocent by reason of insanity last week at a pretrial hearing.
