matrix?

Baudrillard's work has been misinterpreted and been projected as a film called the matrix. the only thing the two have in common is that they both belive people/identity are a simulacrum/simulation. In the matrix people are a stimulation from a computer living in a false reality, they can be freed from this reality yet return to a world that Baudrillard could still see as beeing a false reality. They are still trapped in the system of control; there are sepererations, most fundamentally you can die or be alive, people in the matrix are fighting to destroy the machines and stay alive. Baudrillard thinks there is no real liberation; fairness and equaliry are portrayed in the media e.g. on television there are more images of the rich and poor integrateing in society yet this is only as a simulation because in real life the seperation between them is bigger then ever. This simulation comes from the code trying to give everyone a position e.g. women wern't in the code so they were offered simulatory gifts like the right to vote so they could be included in the code. Baudrillard thinks the code is the stimulation because you don't have to be a binary opposite you can be both (rich and poor, male and female, alive and dead), the stimulation is the code we are not really one thong and have a strict identity. Baudrillard says if the matrix was to make a film about the matrix it would be exactly like the matrix! i.e. the film is only a simulation of freedom. The only way to break of the ssimulation and into the real reality is to break out of the code.

if you haven't watched the matrix click on this website for an absract on the filmhttp://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix