• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Neo was powerful. I wonder if he could have gained the same abilities, without the help of Morpheus, throughout his time in the matrix. Were he able to do so, he could have lived a nice life inside. I guess Neo felt a higher calling to free mankind or something, so he left… or maybe Morpheus just didn’t tell him the whole picture before offering the pill. Morpheus probably needed a powerful warrior and just rolled the dice on Neo, deciding to not exactly paint the whole picture.
    Anyway… had I known the whole picture, I’d have stayed inside.

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      6 hours ago

      Its a metaphor for a real philosophical movement that parallels the trans experience, and decision the writer/directors did make themselves.

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      7 hours ago

      for me, it’s the opposite. I don’t mind living in a simulation if everyone else is a real thinking person, but I would’ve felt compelled to help give everyone the option to leave