Essays on The Matrix

The next stage of Plato's Allegory is freedom. In Plato's Allegory it simply states one day the chain connected to the prisoner breaks and he is able to move and be free. In the matrix this part is more nuanced and Neo is given a choice. After being guided by morpheus for awhile and morpheus showing neo his advanced understanding of The Matrix, Neo is then brought to a room where he is told he has a choice. To go back to the regular world or dig deeper and be freed from the simulation. This is ...

In The Matrix directed by Lilly Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, existentialism and determinism are explored leading one to question what reality truly is through the use of various thematic techniques. Existentialists is the believe that an individual determines their own development through acts of free will whereas determinists believe that all events are determined by causes external to free will or fate. The main character Neo is presented with these conflicting beliefs when he becomes aware ...

Watching a movie can sound like a typical and normal activity nowadays. Naturally, families and people spend more time selecting the film to see that thinking about the complex meaning that this entails. In order to emerge ourselves in the film’s situation, the world of cinema plays with our mind and body. This unconscious game with us is seldom noticed and we just keep our eye in the film and enjoy it. However, what would happen if we stopped for a moment to analyze these previous ...

Throughout everyday life, we have two options: to acknowledge the agonizing truth of this present reality and to accept the deception of an ideal world. This was obvious in the film The Matrix. The characters in the film, particularly the principle character Neo, need to live in numbness in what one accepts to be a reality; or to conscious to the reality that what one sees as the truth is a dream. Customarily, I want to put stock in superb thoughts, the dreamland, the upbeat ever after in ...

The matrix: to say we are in the matrix's would really be easy to quickly say no, to think of a human as being no more than a battery is in most circles of thinking laughable, we are not good enough as a power source to even be considered, with all that said now days I'm unsure what is real. I used to have a dream about being in somebody else's dream and once he woke up my existence would disappear. I dreaded him waking up and I feared it for some time because this dream was so real. This is ...

The Wachowski brothers wrote and directed the movie The Matrix. These brothers write about a very complex world that is unparalleled to anything our minds can grasp through mere thought. That is the purpose of the characters portrayed throughout the movie. Thomas Anderson, Neo, is a very distraught man. He knows there is something more to the world he senses, but he cannot quite get there without the help of others that once struggled this same battle his is internally struggling. That is ...

Depersonalization, the feeling that you are always trapped in a dream, one may think that they have a full grip on “reality”: but how do you decipher between reality and a forged reality. The matrix is a captivating Sifi that seems to break the boundaries of what we as humans see today. In the movie Thomas Anderson or as he is known in the computer world Neo finds himself to be perplexed unable to depict the difference between his dream world and so called reality. This all changes when he is ...