The Matrix ... whoops
True Story

I really liked the movie The Matrix, saw it in theaters a couple times on opening weekend.

The second time through I wasn't as thrilled as the first time, point of fact - the first half of the movie is actually pretty slow as they set everything up - it takes quite a while to get up to "cool" stuff where neo gets interesting and impressive - rather than just being a mumbling question monster who's a little slow.

So I'm sitting in the back of the theater and I'm a little bored waiting for the goodness - but I'm with thousand other people who're here for the first time and they're -loving- it, totally getting caught up in the story and the emotional charge in the room is really humming, you can feel everyone's minds and belief focused on this one representation of reality and it's a pretty powerful thing.

And I'm sitting there and instead of focusing on the movie, I'm focusing on everyone else and feeling this wave of emotional energy and riding kinda high on it and this is amazing and at the same time I can't help but thinking (since the movie is saying it in front of me after all) what if this is all a false reality and we're just waiting for "the one" or our own transcendence or something to push up through this false front to the *Real* Reality, to wake up from the Matrix we're all caught in?

What if we really can push past the lackluster reality that, lets face it - has never really felt right or satisfying as a rule and see that fantastic reality just waiting for us on the other side of the screen?

So the movie is coming up on the part where Neo "is beginning to believe" and everyone's as charged as they get and right as he's wrapping his arm around the cable coming out of the helicopter and everyone's tension is maxed out wanting to see the fucking awesomeness that's coming next and I just reach out a little on this tide of energy and take all the energy and belief and power floating around all charged up and I think "I want to Burn away this False Reality AND SEE THE TRUTH!" and I aim it all up at the moviescreen in front of me thinking I'll just explode into the REAL world...

And, no lie - the movie freezes on the image of neo posing and then the picture starts melting away and the whole thing goes to white.

Blew. My. Mind.

The projector had jammed and that single frame of the film had gotten stuck in front of the bulb and melted away, quite rapidly, leaving us with nothing but a white wall of light in front of us all.

Everyone in the theater was pissed and confused, except me - I was feeling fantastic, freaked out, and stunned to my shoes =)

Course it was just a coincidence... right?
( Allisade would love to hear from you, Mon 31 Aug 2009, 19:48, 3 replies)

It must be coincidence ....
if I was living in a fantasy of my own making,would I have given myself haemorrhoids for the last five years ?
( bane, Mon 31 Aug 2009, 22:12, closed)

huh
I can't argue with logic like that =)

though... it might be a fantasy of someone else's making. Someone who's just not that fond of you =/

I admit there are times being a figment of someone else's imagination might appeal to me, but I hadn't really explored how bad it could be if they took a disliking to you =)
( Allisade would love to hear from you, Tue 1 Sep 2009, 14:59, closed)

lay off


lay off the blue pills, or is it the red pills . . . and stop following rabbits,

you've been told this before haven't you ?
(The Cats Twat, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 9:51, closed)