> But I wish that they'd explained how humans were basically used in computing clusters. For running the Matrix. Not as "batteries", for producing power.
From what I recall, that was actually what was originally scripted, though the explanation in the script was changed after test audiences for the first film responded poorly to it.
But it's also pretty clearly the underlying mechanics in the film, that guide how everything in the Matrix actually works, even after they made the explanation given in character more appealing to test audiences. (And, actually, I think given what we find out about “free” humanity being a system of control itself, having them adhering as an article of faith to a fairly transparently false explanation that they've clearly been fed actually fits the theme fairly well.)
Try: ..we live in a dystopia, confined to our coffins, fed with wifi and ethernet, and Mark Zuckerberg is Agent Smith constructing the Matrix on our metaData
From what I recall, that was actually what was originally scripted, though the explanation in the script was changed after test audiences for the first film responded poorly to it.
But it's also pretty clearly the underlying mechanics in the film, that guide how everything in the Matrix actually works, even after they made the explanation given in character more appealing to test audiences. (And, actually, I think given what we find out about “free” humanity being a system of control itself, having them adhering as an article of faith to a fairly transparently false explanation that they've clearly been fed actually fits the theme fairly well.)