What Is The Matrix?

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What is the matrix? In the movie, actually the name Matrix means the overall mass all ´´the overall surrounding mass´´ so that is the question of the movie: What is the surrounding mass? What is it all and good?
Matrix means a virtual world to hide the truth. The main character of this movie is Thomas A. Anderson (Keanu Reeves) is a computer programmer by day and a hacker named Neo night. Has spent his entire life sensing that there is something more, that there is something wrong and that doubt is reinforced with a message received on your computer: "Matrix has you." Neo discovers that the world in which he believed to live is nothing more than a virtual simulation which is connected by a cable plugged into your brain. The billions of people living (connected) around it, are being grown in the same way to energize the machines. This collective simulation is known as Matrix (womb).
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Someone who can give the answer to the questions that haunt both: What is the Matrix? and why do you have? Morpheus and his team, realizing that his enemies are seeking to Neo, decided to contact him. The group of rebels led by real-world Morpheus, Neo rescues harvest of people where he was imprisoned. Once released, Morpheus explains what the reality because reality is not reality. The hacker Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), Morpheus friend leads him to it and the answer you want, but to obtain it must renounce his former life and everything he had known before. The symbol of this process is to accept taking a red pill, however, another pill the blue, could return it to its present world as if nothing had happened in the past. Neo agrees to take the red pill to forget his life and everything he knows to discover what is the

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