What kind of story does The Matrix tell?

Many film critics say that this is a story about human beings' pursuit of freedom, but Fang Zheng has always sneered at this. This is the biggest weakness of Hollywood movies. For them, freedom is not a necessity, but a political correctness. As long as it is for freedom, then I sleep with your wife and daughter and kill your whole family. It is just. On the other hand, if it is not for freedom, then it is evil and needs to be defeated.

But the problem is that freedom cannot be eaten as food.

Of course, throughout history, there have been many wars fought for freedom, slaves fought to overthrow slave owners, and peasants fought to overthrow landlords. But for them, freedom is not a political correctness, but a necessity. They don't want others to decide their life and death, and they don't want others to decide their future. They hope to change their lives through their own efforts, so that they and their descendants can live a better life than now.

And this is the key point.

But the problem is that if we look at it from a historical perspective, we will find that the story of The Matrix is ​​illogical and doomed to fail.

Many people think that the finale of the third part is a failure, but in fact, in Fang Zheng's opinion, it is almost an inevitable ending.

Morpheus and Neo pursue freedom and overthrow the machines that enslave humans, and then what?

Let's take a look at the basics of this world - the sun is covered by dark clouds, the earth is barren, there are no living things, and even food needs to be synthesized. In this case, a person can still enjoy virtual food and sunshine in the mother's body, so what can they get in reality?

To take a step back, even if Neo's protagonist halo explodes, and in the end he takes control of the entire Matrix and then liberates all mankind from the slavery of the Matrix, can they live a better life?

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland with a lack of resources, no sunlight, and even difficult survival, how do you feed billions of people? Rely on love to generate electricity and ghosts to support the family?

Perhaps the director himself knew that his setting was stupid, so in the end, he had no other choice but to shoot an ending where humans reconcile with the Matrix.

The reason is simple, because in Fang Zheng's view, their fighting belief is not only naive but also fragile.

They are free just for the sake of freedom, but freedom itself is not an end, but a means. Of course, Hollywood movies are full of such protagonists. Not only that, but also games. Fang Zheng once played a game called "Return to Castle Wolfenstein", the plot of which is about Nazi Germany ruling the world, and then the protagonist and others rise up to resist... Well, on the surface, this is actually not much different from The Matrix.

But the problem is that the production team's efforts to show the humanity of the protagonist to the players made it difficult for Fang Zheng to accept. After the story was completed, Fang Zheng actually felt that it would be better to choose the Nazis to rule the world, even though the game was obviously full of positive energy?

Of course, you can say that the Nazi rule was cruel, full of racial discrimination, and bloody and violent. But compared to a violent protagonist who likes to beat his enemies into a pulp with his fists and has a traumatic childhood, an adjutant who needs to rely on drugs to get "inspiration" to arrange tasks, and a bomber who is willing to create terrorist activities in order to kill Nazis... Fang Zheng said that in comparison, at least the society ruled by the Nazis still has a little order, right?

Once the entire earth is handed over to this group of psychopaths who often have hallucinations and need to rely on drugs to maintain their beliefs, or even lunatics who live only for revenge, who knows what will happen? This is why Fang Zheng did not feel any sense of accomplishment after completing the game. They defeated the Nazis, and then what? With this group of psychopaths and mobs, what kind of country can they form? I'm afraid it's worse than the Nazis!

A war requires not only exciting slogans, but also long-term dedication in obscurity. It is not difficult to be excited and want to sacrifice your life for your beliefs under the flag. What is difficult is to persist to the end, which Fang Zheng will never see in those protagonists. Their actions are like those Hollywood popcorn movies, exciting and exciting, but short-lived - lasting at most 120 minutes. If they have not defeated the final boss, then they should consider giving up.

In Fang Zheng's opinion, Neo is such an impulsive protagonist, young, simple, passionate, and easily incited. So when Morpheus found him, he almost couldn't wait to accept the other party's invitation.

As for why Neo continued to choose to be the savior, Fang Zheng thought the reason was simple - because in the real world, he had no choice. If he didn't become the savior, he would just be like everyone else, living a life of idleness and waiting to die. He couldn't quit his job or change jobs as he wanted to do in the virtual world. And because of "political correctness", he couldn't go to the Matrix, so apart from continuing to be the savior, a job with no future, he really had no goal.

And now...it's time to wake up from this dream.

Fang Zheng stopped and looked up. In front of him was Zion's heavy and solid metal gate. The automatic machine guns mounted on both sides of the gate sensed the presence of the enemy and began to quickly aim at the target. But the next moment, they quickly lost power and turned into a pile of scrap metal.

Fang Zheng tilted his head.

"Nymph, open the door."

“Boom boom boom—”

The door slowly opened.

On the metal platform on the other side of the gate, hundreds of mechas were waiting there, raising their machine guns, aiming forward, ready to attack at any time. But... when they saw what was happening, everyone's breathing could not help but stagnate.

As the metal door opened, a young man wearing a black windbreaker and sunglasses walked in slowly with his hands behind his back. Behind him followed a blue-haired girl with twin ponytails and wearing strange clothes. They walked forward leisurely as if they were taking a walk in the park.

But as the two of them moved forward, everything around them began to lose its effect. Even the surrounding artillery used for defense was completely silent at this time.

"Hey, hello."

Fang Zheng raised his hand and waved to everyone with a smile. Looking at the man who suddenly appeared in front of them, everyone didn't know what to do for a moment. In the end, Morpheus walked out of the crowd and stared at him coldly.

"What are you doing here?"

Although Morpheus' tone was cold, the expression in his eyes was very complicated - in the real world, because there was no good industry, all of them wore some shabby coarse cloth clothes. This might be why they were dressed more handsomely than each other in the virtual world.

But at this moment, Fang Zheng in front of him was wearing the same clean, straight windbreaker and sunglasses as in the womb, as if he was mocking them. Seeing this scene, Morpheus' heart was shaken again. Could it be that... what he said was true? If, if this was really the case...

"I've already told you... oh, I guess I haven't, but it doesn't matter, it's the same if I come here and say it again."

Having said this, Fang Zheng stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers. Soon, a noisy sound was heard from the speakers all around. Then, Fang Zheng's voice immediately began to echo throughout Zion.

"Okay, let me explain now. Dear players of Earth OL, I welcome your support and love for the Matrix version. Unfortunately, due to various reasons, this server will be completely shut down. Please log off as soon as possible. Earth OL will send you back to the Matrix for free so that you can experience the fun of the game again..."

“Stop joking!!”

After hearing Fang Zheng's words, some people started to roar in anger. The soldiers operating the mechanical armor raised their guns in anger and aimed at Fang Zheng.

"You are the mother's lackey, don't even think about talking nonsense here! We will never go back!!"

“Da da da da!!!”

As the sound of gunfire rang out, countless bullets whizzed towards Fang Zheng and Nymph, but facing the hail of bullets in front of him, Fang Zheng simply curled his lips.

The next moment, a surprising scene appeared.

Countless bullets stopped quietly in front of Fang Zheng, as if they were frozen in the air. They piled up densely together, as if forming a barrier. Seeing this scene, the originally fierce artillery fire gradually became sparse, and at some point, they finally stopped completely.

"…What he said was indeed true…"

Standing on the balcony, watching this scene, Neo felt himself trembling all over. This scene was too familiar to him, he had done the same thing in the Matrix before!

But now…

“Click, click, click…”

The bullets frozen in the air scattered all over the ground, and Fang Zheng stretched out his right hand to the side.

"Nymph, sword."

"Yes, Master."

As Nymph spoke, a huge silver-white sword appeared out of thin air again and was held in Fang Zheng's hand. Seeing this, no one doubted it anymore - if blocking bullets could be considered a special ability, then creating something out of thin air was absolutely impossible to appear in the real world!

"Well, players."

As he spoke, Fang Zheng raised his giant sword and pointed it forward.

"We're sorry, but this game is shutting down."