Blog 22

The Matrix movie is a better depiction of reality than the Existenz movie, even through they are made the same year they are totally different movies. One uses human flesh and the other uses machines. The matrix movie is what is going on in society today. The fact that machines are taking over the world todaY. The fact that we are unaware of reality from fiction and that we are using devices and computer to control our lives. It is evident that this movie is a better example of real life. A prime reason for this is the way they show that we are controlled by machines.

In the book "The Matrix and Philosophy",chapter 17 a woman named Cynthia Freeland claims that eXistentz is abetter film,however I disagree with her. I feel that the Matrix a better film, because it gives us examples of the modern day age. It shows us that we all have choices in life. An example of this would be the blue pill and the red pill. Also the movie demonstrates the difference between good and evil. An example of that is Neo trying to save everyone from the agents that want to use the machine to take over the world and do evil.

The matrix film has the ability to attract more diversity audience because of all the different ways the movie can be interrupted. This movie can be viewed in a religion way, scientific way, and it can even be seen as a action fIlm. I did not gather that same feedback from the eXistentz movie. I felt disgusted by a lot of parts of that movie, and so many of the parts were very difficult to follow. Existentz movie to me feels like a horny,lonely woman is seeking a young man to take advantage of and use a setting of a gosh game to get her rocks off. The end of the movie was so stupid, most of the movie they were inside the game,unlike the matrix where the people navigated in and out.

In the matrix movie they use real weapons other then fake weapons. Existentz had weapons that was made from human flesh, the bullet were actually people teeth,which was extremely nasty. You were able to create this gun with a lunch special from the chinese restaurant ,which was part of the game. This fake gun that was use both to kill the chinese man and to shot Allegra Geeler. It was strange that the bullet did not affect her however this same bullet blow his head off.