《黑客帝国》:矩阵奴役人类，因为人类是病毒?

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史密斯特工:我想跟你分享一点儿心得。当我试图给你们分类的时候，我才发现你们其实不算是哺乳动物。地球上每种哺乳动物都会本能地和周围环境保持生态平衡，可你们人类不会。你们迁徙到一个区域，然后不断繁殖、繁殖，直到耗尽所有自然资源，你们生存下去的唯一方式就是侵占另一个区域。地球上还有一种生物是这样生存的，你知道是什么吗?病毒。人类是地球的疾病和癌症。你们是瘟疫，而我们是解药。
Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.
沃卓斯基姐弟《黑客帝国》，1999
台词控第96期，这段台词来自《黑客帝国》。《黑客帝国》是一部反乌托邦电影，“矩阵”其实代表着禁锢人类自由的权力机器及其意识形态。不过，这段台词更有意思。在矩阵(the Matrix)内，史密斯特工抓住了墨菲斯，在折磨他的同时，给他上了一课。从电脑、矩阵的角度俯瞰人类的种种，人类就是病毒。回顾人类的历史，恐怕连为自由而战的墨菲斯、尼奥等人，也没办法真正反驳吧?