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has anyone seen "the thirteenth floor"? after i've read all these posts about the Matrix in a Matrix theory, i keep thinking that it's going to be the exact same thing. actually, i'm pretty sure that the whole matrix story is based a lot off of this movie, so i wouldn't be surprised if that's how revolutions turns out.
if you haven't seen it, the plot is this - there are three worlds discussed in the movie, the real world, which is far in the future, the simulation world, which is about now (2000-2003), and the simulation within a simulation, (Los angeles, 1937). the main character works with developing the LA simulation, where you go in and take the role of your "user", which is a person living within the simulation. they all lead perfectly normal lives, but don't know what the truth is, just like in the matrix. one of the main points is that the simulation has limits, so if you choose a place that you would NEVER regularly go to, say, out to the desert, and keep driving and driving (ignoring the road blocks), you will eventually reach the end of the world. one of the people living within the LA simulation discovers this and everything falls apart, and then the main character decides to try it in HIS world, the world where he is developing the LA simulation, and he finds out it's the same thing. and then he wakes up in the REAL REAL world.
anyway, i just wanted to mention that because the movies are so similar. and the thirteenth floor is a much older movie, so matrix indeed does borrow a lot of ideas from there.
if you haven't seen it, the plot is this - there are three worlds discussed in the movie, the real world, which is far in the future, the simulation world, which is about now (2000-2003), and the simulation within a simulation, (Los angeles, 1937). the main character works with developing the LA simulation, where you go in and take the role of your "user", which is a person living within the simulation. they all lead perfectly normal lives, but don't know what the truth is, just like in the matrix. one of the main points is that the simulation has limits, so if you choose a place that you would NEVER regularly go to, say, out to the desert, and keep driving and driving (ignoring the road blocks), you will eventually reach the end of the world. one of the people living within the LA simulation discovers this and everything falls apart, and then the main character decides to try it in HIS world, the world where he is developing the LA simulation, and he finds out it's the same thing. and then he wakes up in the REAL REAL world.
anyway, i just wanted to mention that because the movies are so similar. and the thirteenth floor is a much older movie, so matrix indeed does borrow a lot of ideas from there.