Almost Buddhist - 戲‧論

  ★☆☆☆☆ ‘The Matrix’ was dope and avant-garde, hands down. I remember I had to watch it over and again to finally understand what it’s all about. Some of the Buddhist masters even recommend it as it presents the same view as all Buddhist teachings have basically been emphasizing, that is, you can hardly see things as the way they are but the way you think they are! In other words, the world right before your eyes or in your mind is only what you think it is, not what it is at all! If you anyhow get to see what it truly is, like Neo getting to see the truth after taking the red pill, you’ll definitely go insane, and feel detached from all that used to bind you, and ready to be gone forever as a result. So yeah, 1999’s ‘The Matrix’ is scary and enlightening to our mundane way of thinking. It’s still relevant and sophisticated after all these years in terms of special effects in movie making and its philosophical interpretation of truth and reality. ‘The Matrix Reloaded’ and ‘Revolution