Although different in many aspects the Book sophie’s world and the film the matrix have many similar ideological themes.
In sophie’s world we learn that plato spoke of the "material world" and the "world of ideas" the material world represent all of the physical/material objects of life. however these objects do not represent the way these objects truly are, these material are merely reflections of the objects of the idea world/. Identical to the story/theory of the cave explained in sophie’s , In the story of the matrix, the
Matrix represents a reflection of the real world in the form of a digitally generated world called the matrix .
In a simplified way of explaining the beings on the inside