How To Succeed In Revolution Without Really Trying 1n the wake of all the setbacks to inherent flaw in the system. Smith's to keep with our cinematic motif, the Occupy Movement. culminating greed to himself leads him to let's look at this example as seen copy in the eviction of protestors from overextend himself, and the system through the episode "The Lower Manhattan, it would appear collapses around him. Additionally, Fabian Strategy." In the episode, that we have truly arrived, both the machines, grateful for Neo's /Fabius has an literally and metaphorically, at "the help, reach a treaty with the argument with his live-in girlfriend winter of our discontent.'' With this humans, a solution only attainable Avery/Hannibal about redecorating in mind, it might prove a useful through failure. the upstairs. Avery wants new thought experiment to re-examine wallpaper; Jack doesn't. Realizing our notions of what success and To understand this scene, we can that he can't win the argun1ent failure might mean for revolution: refer to Freud's primal scene as a outright, Jack employs the Fabian namely, to conceive of failureas sort of· original revolution." where Strategy: refusing to engage Avery/ success. As usual, cinema and the sons rebel against, murder. Hannibal in battle, an effort to psychoanalysis can help us visualize and eat their father. However, this win through attrition. That is, he this concept. The most obvious revolution fails when it succeeds: absents himself, a capitalist par place to begin is The Matrix. the dead and absent father figure excelJence: through absence, things turns out to be more powerful than continue as usual. Jack eventually The similarities of The Matrix films the living one. For Jacques Lacan, decides to knock down an upstairs to the Occupy movement barely this dead, absent father figure, wa11, "to make things more require comment: it is in many ways the N aine-of-the-Father, is the symmetrical" (In destroying the a typical film about an underdog foundation of not only the superego source of the i.ssue. we might make revolt against an oppressjve system. but also of the social realm: the analogy to Bloomberg's shutting However, what I want to emphasize the world of Law, government. down of Occupy Wall Street). Only here is how the revolution in The Capitalism, religion, etc. The then does he realize that this is what Matrix is part of the systen1 itself. revolution that fails reverses this Avery wanted all along. Avery/ Revolution has been accounted for logic. [t draws the absent Father out Hannibal's revolution failed in that fromthe very beginning. As the of his hiding place and makes him it did not achieve its purported Architect of the Matrix tells Neo, present again when he confrontsthe objective, but in failing, it made the only 99% of people will accept revolution. In One Flew Over the upstairs, i.e. the economic system, the Matrix. The other 1 % must Cuckoo's Nest, McMurphy's u failed'' more symmetrical and equal. eventually rebel so they can be revolution against the Asylum used to re-start the Matrix when it forces the system to reveal itself Successful revolution is oftenjust inevitably crashes, so the system for what it really is, and in doing a blip in the time line of the status can continue as usual. (Aren't the so, demonstrates this presence. quo, but"failure" can achieve 99% and 1 % of significance here?). McMurphy' s lobotomized, blank unforeseen and truly revolutionary Thus, if Neo's revolution succeeds, expression at the end of the film results. To put it simply, the i.e. overthrows the machines, it will reflects the fatherfigure made revolution that succeeds might inadvertently fail: it wilJ destroy present, a father flgure who is change the color of the upstairs the Matrix and wipe out the human castrated, pathetic, and powerless. wallpaper, but the revolution that race. fails might renovate the entire social Capitalism today is just such an space. Of course, Neo isn't going to let absent fatherfigure: it hides behind - William Welty that happen. In the final film of the a world of obscure flnancial laws, trilogy, the rogue agent Smith is anonymous banking systems, and infinitely copying himself and the numbers and profits that have system,. as predicted, is spinning replaced people. A revolution, out of control (like Capitalism). even one that u fails�. forces absent Neo confronts Smith in a final Capitalism to become present: to showdown, but is unable to defeat defend itself like Nurse Ratched him. In the c1imactic scene. or Agent Smith. In doing so. the Neo allows Smith to turn him system is revealed for what it really into another duplicate, and then is, and either destroys itself or destroys himself, which in turn becomes subject to change. destroys Smith. Here, Neo has failed, i.e. failed to beat Smith in a Let us take one final example: fight, but in failing, he drew out the Hannibal's conflict with Fabius. But