alt Hacker NewsI always enjoy the moment in The Matrix where Neo flops a hollowed out copy of this book open, to fish out some illicit mini-disc he’s storing in it.
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viccis • today at 5:22 AM
I like that he had a very accurate criticism of their use of his influences in the first film (that the simulacra he describes wouldn't be so clearly differentiated from the real), and they ended up doing a better job in later films, as the Matrix's clear delineation from the real world was intended to lure the people into thinking their simulation was more real. The Matrix was the simulacrum after all.
Recently re-watching the Matrix after reading this book, I had to exclaim - "Ha, that's not the real one, the actual book extremely thin compared to that codex!"
And it's just funny for what details the brain is unable to suspend disbelief...