Matrix reloaded, What about me???

AM I THE ONE? Keanu Reeves would definitely mind such a question. A blog inspired by the Trilogy ..that is all.

My good friend pointed out that there was something that was unusual for the past three- four days but I believed there was something wrong with me since my mid term got over.
Neither I have the answer what is wrong with me nor does my friend. I came to my room as confused as I was before.

“Matrix Reloaded” was on HBO; one good thing about not being in Chennai is that you get these channels without a problem.
I have always loved the one liner in the first part “The matrix”. I have seen my friends going crazy over the whole philosophy of the trilogy. The very first time I could appreciate the dialogues between the protagonist and his mentor (Neo and Morpheus).

There is one such dialogue sequence when both these characters meet for the first time.

Morpheus: I imagine that right now, you're feeling a bit like Alice. Hmm? Tumbling down the rabbit hole?
Neo: You could say that.
Morpheus: I see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, that's not far from the truth. Do you believe in fate, Neo?
Neo: No.
Morpheus: Why not?
Neo: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
Morpheus: I know *exactly* what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but its there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me

Every word that Morpheus utters seems to suit my state of mind this moment.
I am no Neo but I always have believed that we as individuals are in control of our lives. Some change in me? Yes …No… My friend doesn’t accept when I say I am a confused being now. All I am being told is that I am not my usual self. Guess this is the root of the problem now. I am not in the driver’s seat.

Now I shall leave what I am not and what I shall be after writing the blog to time, I'll better try to continue with the Wonderful dialogues of the movie. I was just telling the other day to one of my friend that what are being told in the film through these dialogues are real HR (philosophies and human psychology) concepts and more of them from the Indian context.

Indian philosophies in a Hollywood film?? For instance Matrix talks a lot about rebirth.

Oracle: OK, now I'm supposed to say, "Hmm, that's interesting, but..." then you say...
Neo: ..."but what?"
Oracle: But... you already know what I'm going to tell you.
Neo: I'm not The One.
Oracle: Sorry, kid. You got the gift, but it looks like you're waiting for something.
Neo: What?
Oracle: Your next life, maybe. Who knows? That's the way these things go.

There are a lot these favorites of mine. For example I like this one from Agent smith where he talks about Human race similar to Virus. Even the villain says the truth and he has philosophies. You know the Lanka king Ravana in Ramayan was said to be more learned and scholarly person than Ram.

Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure.

We never live in harmony with the environment like other living beings, do we? And guess what we study Environmental management.

Read this one about life. Just can’t be really more precise than this one statement.

Neo: Why am I here?
The Architect: Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix.

People can derive a lot of meaning. For people who haven’t seen the trilogy -Matrix is the unreal world. The matrix was programmed by the “Architect”. You can compare the programming of the matrix to the design of life. Though this is against my belief of being in control of ones life what I see in this one line is that there are external influences that affect the course of life. But we are just talking of the remainders; I feel the life is more than sum of these remainders, there are factors that are controlled by us that also matter.

Today in class as and when I was hearing some verbs and adjectives I was writing it down. With it I was pairing another word. The rule was simple for pairing, just make some sense, some relation between the words paired. Some of them were

Relationship- effort; Illusion-knowledge; Company- assets; belief-hope;

trade offs – Strong wins.

I really didn’t know that there were dialogues that conveyed the same meaning as I did with these pair of words. I was thinking of the word choice as a privilege of the haves. And went on to write this pair of words Trade offs – strong Wins. In the movie we have:

Merovingian: Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without.

Hey I had written another pair of words that finds a dialogue in the film though not explicit.......
..The pair of words was Illusion-knowledge and the dialogue

Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Spoon boy: Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

Before I conclude, why is it I dig deep into a lot of things?

I was saying today “I say Hi to a lot of people even though I really don’t mean saying it"

Why did I say that.... can I free my mind of thoughts... if that was possible I won’t be writing blogs. :)

To be continued for it has become too long a blog.