Have you ever read a book or
watched a movie, and the further in you got, the less you trusted the narrator?
But did you ever think, that may be they were telling the truth, and that is
what they saw, but they were the ones being lied to, they were in a counterfeit
world that was staged around them?
There are plenty of books and
movies where everything just seems a little… off: The Maze Runner
trilogy, The Matrix, The Giver, and so many more. These all take
place in superficial worlds that are either built around the main character and
their friends, or around a community of people, and the main character wants to
break free of these binds.
Each main character of The
Maze Runner trilogy, The Matrix, and The Giver, all figure
out at one point or another, that the world is false, and so is almost
everything they see, feel, and hear. As they strive to break free of the binds
of their fake reality, either they realize that the real world is just as bad
as the fake one, the evil things they encounter break free along with them, or
as they break free of one, they are pulled into another and have to break free
all over again.
In The Maze Runner
Trilogy, the main characters break free- or at least they think they break
free, but are then sent to the real world, which doubles as a fake reality, and
are required to travel across the treacherous landscape full of insane people
trying to kill them. After that, they are then pulled into the real world, but
they figure out that it is not as nice as they thought, and are nearly killed
several times, but in the end, they survive, but with some losses.
In The Matrix, the
world itself is a dream, and the main character needs to wake up. However, when
he does, the evil entities follow him out to the real world, and he has to
purge the world of them.
In The Giver, the main
character discovers some disturbing things that his “community” does. His
community frowns upon anybody being different or better than anyone else. At
first it sounds efficient, but then he slowly starts to realize that the community isn’t the only place to
go, and in the end he escapes with a little boy, and ends in a way you’ll have
to read for yourself.
So, in the end, almost all
superficial worlds end well enough, but may have some sort of a tragic ending,
that leaves something, or someone behind.
