【Movie・Matrix】The distance between dream and reality

"Matrix 4" is about to be released, there is a fourth part, and naturally there are the first three parts. The first part was released in 1999, and the second and third parts were released in May and November 2003. Calculate from the first part It has been more than 20 years, and the third part of the ending has also left a line, and I look forward to the fourth part to see how it develops.

When watching the first movie, the focus of discussion among friends was "choose the blue pill or the red pill?" Friends who haven't seen the movie should also see the related meme pictures. The story setting in the movie is that the world that is very similar to the world we live in is actually a virtual world (like a metaverse?), but most people in the virtual world do not notice it, but some people still wake up. If the person who has woken up gives you two pills to choose from, swallow the blue pill, when you wake up, all "choices" are just dreams, and then you continue to live your "everyday" life; take the red pill and you will leave the illusory Take a look at the real world. The actor chose the red pill and returned to the real world. If it were me, I would choose the red pill, I want to see the "real" world. A friend said that he would choose the blue pill, and he didn't want to give himself more troubles. Everyone's choices are different.

Extending from the blue-red pill is the topic of dreams. Humans can distinguish between dreams and reality, because the difference between the two is huge. The real world has certain laws. People can only jump but not fly with their bodies. When the temperature drops, they will feel cold, and they will feel pain when they are injured. This may not be the case in a dream. In a dream, you can jump directly from the earth to the moon. The temperature can be as low as minus ten degrees without feeling cold. If you are injured, you will be fine when you wake up. But if everyone in the world is in the same "dream", the time in the dream is synchronized with each other, and the details are the same as in reality. Eating tofu in a dream, the process from the tongue to the esophagus to the stomach and then to feces is the same as in reality; the five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and various sensory systems are no different from reality. So the line between dream and reality has been indistinguishable, right? More directly, it's impossible to tell when you're dreaming and when you're actually living your life.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhuangzi had a dream. He dreamed that he was dancing like a butterfly, and when he woke up, he found that he was still Zhuangzi. He began to think whether Zhuangzi became a butterfly in the dream, or whether the butterfly became Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi has been thinking about reality and fantasy for more than 2,000 years. This is the classic thinking topic "Zhuang Zhou's Dream of Butterfly", which is similar to "Reality and Illusion" in the Matrix.

Finally, let's talk about the translation of "Matrix". Hong Kong translated it into "22nd Century Killing Network"; Taiwan translated it into "The Matrix"; China translated it into "The Matrix". I always feel that various translations have not conveyed the word "Matrix". The mystery is that "Matrix" is not easy to translate, and the concepts it involves are difficult to explain in a few words, and those who have seen the movie will understand. Friends who haven't watched it suggest that you find time to at least watch the first "Matrix".