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the image is supposed to be depressive. idk why but i feel comfort and miss for those times.
Bro is surrounded by the things that bring him comfort, gets invited to social gatherings by contacts from his side hustle, but green filter so everything sucks
Coping mechanisms can bring comfort, that's true. My view is they were tools to create the alter-ego, Neo, which felt to him like a truer representation of himself than the matrix offered when he followed the rules. He also uses them to endlessly search for answers to why he feels like something is wrong with the world -
His normal reaction to a party invitation is to say no, which he did, until he saw the white rabbit. The only reason he went out was in the pursuit of answers.
To visually distinguish between the real world and the matrix, the filmmakers gave scenes inside the matrix a green tint, a la the old school green tint of Neo's command line.
I'm not being argumentative I just feel the need to discuss the finer plot points of the matrix in a shitpost. It's just my programming...
The green tint was used to make clear that ~~Dorothy~~ Neo was neither in Mexico nor in Kansas.
You know if we're being real that's probably true. I keep forgetting the trans interpretation because it wasn't considered when the film was produced but it fits perfectly in retrospect.
I like to assume that he got invited in the first place by being the sort of person who would get invited normally but that probably wasn't the case.
Don't sweat it, you make good points