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'No one can tell you are in love' makes no sense


There are many points in this movie, where I thought they were going to go for something they actually didn't.

The whole 'everything your body needs'-thing was one of them. I thought, great, finally someone acknowledges the truth about how human body is not mechanical, and can't survive on 'what scientists think it needs' alone. Finally someone has read those studies where they TRIED giving people ALL of the 'vitamins, minerals, proteins' and so on, that the body supposedly needs, and people ALMOST DIED.

But no, instead, they blindly believe the official superficial story (probably calorie theory, too), and the 'not all that the body needs' ONLY refers to the juvenile sexual crap instead of the proper 'energy stuff' that the body needs.

The point being, body can't survive on mechanical things alone, it needs LIFE, it needs ENERGY. Can't stay alive by eating only dead stuff.

So, this 'no one can tell you are in love'-thing was the other. I really thought they were going to recite the other studies, as well as the OBVIOUS things we all know that happen when you 'fall' for someone. They call it 'love', but of course, that word is used for emotional lust and maybe even sexual lust and others.

When your crush walks by, your pulse becomes faster, you start sweating, at least your palms will, you might get a bit of a genitalia blood rush going AND SO ON. You become more nervous (unless you are some kind of 'path' or whatnot), you might stumble with words a little bit or stutter and so on.

The point is, what they call LOVE, is perfectly measurable - people can EASILY tell you are in love by your longing gaze and, oh, I don't know,..

.. ALL THE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS that happen when you are in love!

Thousands of 'scientific instruments' could tell you are in love, and what about the Matrix, where they monitor your vital signs, so the Matrix should ALSO know what your vital signs are.

In effect, THE WHOLE WORLD (which IS The Matrix in this movie from a certain point of view) would be able to know!

So saying that NO ONE can know is pure BS and makes no sense whatsoever!

How can you be in love and NOT have any kind of biological reactions? If you are put on any kind of functional 'vital signs'-measuring device, and your reaction to different images is gauged, I friggin' GUARANTEE that the temp janitor that is working in the facility for the first day would be able to tell the changes in your vital signs, pulse, stress hormones and muscle behaviour, eye movement, sweat gland activity AND SO ON, which image or video you are shown, depicts the OBJECT OF YOUR LOVE.

I mean, come on, really? This movie makes SO little sense on all possible levels, but did they have to ADD ignorance and stupidity into it? How does anyone make these two mistakes I am talking about in this post? The nutritional and 'what the body needs' info is READILY AVAILABLE in 1999 internet, and the other studies about vitals changing when you have a crush (let alone are in love) even more so.

How do these moviemaking idiots not know these BASIC FACTS OF LIFE?

Not that anyone knows anything in this world, people buy dogs without understanding dog psychology, then cause them to become neurotic by anthropomorphizing (humanizing) them, dressing them up and never walking them properly.

People reproduce without knowing ANYTHING about baby, toddler, child, or teenager psychology, and what all of those ABSOLUTELY need (structure, discipline, limits, limitations, boundaries - mothers always think 'all you need is love' and 'I don't need any book to raise MY perfect kid', which then proceeds to become one of those monsters in all those 'Cop' youtube video channels)..

So people don't know about animals, their own psychology, love, socialization, mating, seduction, pairbonding, relationships, pets, parenting, walking a dog (seriously, they don't!), or what cats cause to happen in your brain in the long term..

But yet they ACT as if this doesn't matter, and keep buying cats, dogs, reproducing and 'dieting', simping for women, riding the c*ck-carousel and then wonder why NONE of it worked, and they're aging alone with boxed wine and 8 cats or playing video games until they die of heart attack at age 57 because they ate animal carcasses all their life and never understood how unhealthy and unethical it was, and then their problematic, raging pit bull eats their face afterwards.

Is this what people really want? Can't they RESEARCH anything, ever? Even if it means they could live a 1000 times happier lives? No? Oh, well, at least you were able to slide your thumb a lot on a feelingless touchscreen of a portable miniscreen that hypnotizes you to be insecure and selfish. Congrats on that, I guess..

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