Glitch in the matrix

How to get out of the matrix

Rodney Asher (“Room 237”) poses in “A Fault in the Matrix” these questions and uses a well-known speech by Philip K. Dick as a pivot to search for the answers, leaving no stone unturned. He dives into the world of science and philosophy but also into conspiracy theory. He explores the unprovable by using cinema (through films such as “Matrix”, “Blade Runner” or the “Star Wars” sagas), interviews with real people turned into colorful avatars, and, of course, the voices of different specialists in science fiction, new technologies and philosophy.

Examples of failures in the matrix

Is this real life, or is it all a fantasy? Since the Wachowski sisters stormed movie theaters around the world in 1997 with Matrix, the idea that reality is not real and that everything is a computerized fiction has become popular, although it is not something so new, as Calderón de la Barca already said.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, without believing the theory, assures us that it is impossible to refute that we are the product of a simulation created by an alien teenager in the basement of his parents’ house. And, the truth is that looking at these photos, one can conclude that he has many ‘bugs’ to fix…

Error in the matrix meme

Less intimidating are the conversational interviews Asher does with various people discussing their own journeys into simulation theory. Dressed in a digital suit with a shiny, jewel-encrusted Lion-O outfit, Paul Judd talks about how, while growing up in a sparsely populated Illinois town, he came to see the people around him fake and the buildings as empty western. film – facades on model. Later, he described how he was horrified during church services when he realized that all the humans singing around him were essentially making sounds through “plates of flesh” inside their bodies. Brother Læo Mystwood, his avatar of a sort of pink robo-anubis, explains that he drew a map of events in his life and discovered that everything happens according to a certain pattern: things related to his work happen on certain days, things he has to do with the family on other days, etc. Later, he recalls how his experience with a sensory deprivation tank made him realize that his body was an illusion. Alex Levine, in a neon shaman costume with what appears to be a brain floating inside his mask, describes an inspiring incident in Cuernavaca, Mexico, when he gets off easy after driving drunk and confronting corrupt local cops and becomes convinced that the world was waiting. for him.

Mistakes of the matrix in full quarantine

Neo, Keanu Reeves’ character, is a kind of Chosen One to confront and end the domination of the machines, so he is disconnected from the Matrix by a human resistance group in the real world, which is apocalyptic world (no natural light, few survivors…).

In Dark, the series, the first time Jonas uses the term an error in the matrix is in Chapter 1 (Secrets) of the first season. He mentions the error in the matrix, when he waits under the bridge with Martha for the other kids to go to the Winden caves, just moments after Mikkel’s disappearance, that is, before a change in the world where they live.