Social Commentary In The Matrix

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The movie The Matrix, released in the year 1999, was written and directed by Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski. The Matrix is a part of the science fiction genre. The definition of science fiction is fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets. The Matrix is a good example of its class because it has space travel, when Neo and the group travel back and forth from the matrix to the real true world, next this movie fits its class because the agents can switch from one body to another, also in the movie the use a lot of advanced technology. Also this movie uses strong social commentary to join the conversations …show more content…
Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony,” he enters the conversation that for the sake of Neo seeing how something we have relied on so much turned on us so easily and now artificial intelligence is reliant on humans for survival. But with that said, now when humans, such as Neo, Trinity, Morpheus, etc. have been awakened, they are trying to rebel against the machines and awaken anyone who is willing to learn about the truth of the matrix and rise up against the artificial intelligence like the machines had done previously. Also, Morpheus is trying to get Neo to realize how the fate of the machines turning on humans is ironic because now the awakened ones are now trying to turn on the machines. It is also ironic because of how much we rely on something and would never think that the machines would be able to turn on us or be so advanced to turn on us. Now the machines are using the humans as “so called” slaves, like the humans were using the technology (or machines) before the war between humans and artificial intelligence, which is also very ironic. I think they entered this conversation to show how much we rely on technology now and to maybe help us see that maybe we need to take a step back from some aspects of

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