Flaws in the Matrix?
Something I don’t understand… if Mouse can write programs where Neo and Morpheus can train to fight in a dojo or jump over alleys, and he could also write programs involving attractive women in red dresses, even able to offer ‘private time’ with her for a small fee, then why couldn’t he write a program where Cypher could taste a big, juicy steak every once and a while?
I mean, I understand they’d have to eat that gruel back in the real world every day, but what’s wrong with a little virtual retreat every now and again to keep a guy from going insane?
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:58 pm
Ah, it’s not about being able to bite into a juicy steak—it’s about being able to do so without knowing it’s fake.
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:38 pm
If that was the case, the bullets inside the Matrix shouldn’t be able to kill you.
Unless… maybe that’s how Neo got up after Agent Smith shot him in the 1st movie!
May 3rd, 2006 at 5:20 pm
If that was the case, the bullets inside the Matrix shouldn’t be able to kill you.
Hm? I assume that, like the bullets hurting you, the steak satisfies you. But there’s an existential point here—the steak is not real, see. To choose a weird analogy, an escort will attend to you, but it’s not like having someone who really cares about you.
May 5th, 2006 at 3:34 am
Well i beleive the reason that mouse didn’t go into a simulation, is because he didn’t want to know it was virtual and not real. See he asked the agent to wipe his memory aswell, before putting him back in, so that he would never have to worry about what was real or not.
May 18th, 2006 at 6:40 am
^nuggetbro meant ‘Cypher’ not ‘Mouse’, i think.
May 18th, 2006 at 6:47 am
but yer, i think what’s said here is about right.
i wonder if you ate a dodgy steak in the matrix, (whose bacteria would properly harm you) you’d fall ill in reality.
do they have doggy steaks in the matrix?
May 26th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
if being in the matrix is like being in a dream then no one cud possibly die if killed inside the matrix because it is only the mind which is makin us feel like dying
July 15th, 2006 at 1:27 am
There is a bigger flaw that has always bugged me in this movie. If the agents can move to any person still plugged into the Matrix, why in the begining of the movie did they have to search for Thomas Anderson through the office space and he was able to escape (until he pussied out on the ledge) and why would it have been necessary to install a “tracking” bug on him, since again, he was still plugged in at that time?
November 11th, 2006 at 2:10 am
The biggest flaw of all! …is them plucking Neo from the death river, after the initial release from the Matrix in episode #1. They could never get close to the central city until Neo in part 3 delves into the impossible…the main frame city. How can they come in to that place and pick out the many survivors like Neo, in the first place?
Please provide some insight!
June 3rd, 2007 at 6:46 pm
I just saw Matrix 3 and it is chock full of plot flaws. First of all, it seems that the EMG is a major weapon that should be all over the place. It is deadly to machines but has no effect on humans. Just keep a bunch of them in the tunnels leading to Zion, and they would be safe (unless the Robot people use nuclear bombs or gas). Also, why would the Robots need to create humans to generate electricity (coppertops) when they should just as easily use cows? Or, humans with their brains destroyed. Well, ok - it’s just a plot device!