I understand your point, but both things can be true at the same time... people ARE suffering to be sure, AND we are watching a movie. It's a rather poorly scripted movie, and the actors and their masks and props seem silly and obvious... but it just points out how utterly stupid [THEY] are. And in their stupidity, they believe that WE are as stupid and gullible as they are.

I watch for these "glitches in the Matrix" all the time... and I find them. Knowing that we are watching a movie makes me more alert to their pitiful control efforts.