Blog 2

In the Matrix, human body is used as an energy source. Bodies are portrayed that Neo abruptly look for himself naked in a liquid filled pod, his body connected by wires to a vast mechanical tower covered with identical pods, and his neglected physical body is restored. Machines use human beings’ bodies as its bioelectrical energy and body heat in pods. We can image rebirth or birth image.
I think that race is not important in the Matrix because it described how to make human population by body heat and electric activity. I see the racial themes directly addressed Neo meet with Oracle; the woman is black people; racial issues are implied in their dialogue; the woman predicted the Neo will be a superhuman in the Matrix but Neo complained that he is not the one. I think that Neo is white because his name is Thomas A. Anderson.
I would not live in the Matrix because the Matrix is the film; it describes a future in which reality by human is actually the Matrix; and it is a cyberpunk and hacker subculture, so it’s just illusion film, and I like reality as presence of nature.
Our tools and machines are just only goods or things to use our needs or our quality of life. Thus human is subject and machine or tool are human’s objectives. Human invents the tools and machines, and these serve to human’s promoting of life style.
Humans and machines are totally different whatever machines are sentient because in reality human creates all of machines, and human can make sense, ideology; and human control machines and the other things. Machines are just data; data need human’s handling.
We are living in the matrix because today is digital era and all of the global community is using the computer, internet, and high technology systems in everywhere.
Characters’ names are Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, Smith, Cypher, Apoc, Dozer, Tank, Mouse, Oracle, Switch, Brown, and Jones. I think that Neo means as Christ; and Smith means as Satan. Other characters also mean some religious meaning.
Actors and actresses exactly describe their action and sector such as family obligation, 200 years future images and style. The matrix is very popular film, and bullet time persuade the audiences; at this time director use the slow-motion; camera appears to orbit around the scene at normal speed. Some scene has high speed camera a track and high angle and close up. All most lighting is high key. Especially, the matrix’s bullet time shot was illusion shot as mind over matter by a virtual camera. So the matrix has virtual special effects because it uses virtual cinematography in characters, locations and events. Thus the matrix had received Academy Award for Visual Effects.