humanity from the machines, and ultimately reboot the Matrix by returning his code to the Source. Now let's look at Neo, the supposed One throughout the movies. The lore states that the One was born in the Matrix, but Neo wasn't... He was born in one of those pod thingies. So, that's point one for not Neo. It is also stated that the One can alter the fabric of the Matrix. Sure, Neo can bend spoons and do some Kung-fu…
the day he is simply a computer programmer but by night, he goes by a different name. Neo comes alive in the nighttime as an accomplished internet hacker. Neo begins his journey down the rabbit hole by asking one simple question, “What is the Matrix?”. Police begin to target him after he is contacted by Trinity and Morpheus, who is a computer hacker that the government considers to be a terrorist. Morpheus shows Neo the real world. The real world is full of corruption, material desire, stress…
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…
was explaining ‘The Matrix’ to Neo, Morpheus was flipping a handheld mirror in his hand. Further, the movie demonstrates the idea that the mind is one’s own worst enemy several times. The first time is when Neo is fighting Morpheus in the computer program. Neo is thinking to hard trying to beat Neo, his body follows his mind, and Neo’s mind believes he is in the real world, so his body is constrained by the laws of reality. Eventually Morpheus says, “You think that's air you're breathing?”…
In “The Matrix,” Neo makes the choice between the red (truth) pill and the blue (ignorance) pill. In the film Neo choses to know the truth because of all the crazy things he had recently seen, all the questions that were burning in his mind, and the limited time he had to choose. Although Neo chose to know the truth, there are many reasons one could choose either. Neo chooses the red pill because he has felt, and seen, that there was something “off” about his life. He was curious about who…
The movie itself is about when a young computer genius Thomas Anderson, who went by the alias Neo in the computer world, gets recruited by a man named Morpheus. After the two men had met, Morpheus showed Neo the real world, and told him how people were living in a programmed system called the matrix and that the real world was run by A.I or artificial intelligence. The story goes on, and eventually Neo successfully unlocked his potential and manages to save Morpheus from the agents. Now the…
A very white, vampiric looking man lives a boring life of what seems to be a daily routine, dragging himself from his house to work and back again. One day Neo starts questioning the world around him through late night computer hacking and discovers a man named Morpheus whom comes around with the answers; telling Neo that he lives in world controlled by machines and everything is not what it seems. Morpheus gives him the option of getting out of this alternate reality through a red pill. He gets…
As William Shakespeare, the most famous Elizabethan writer and playwright said, “Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.” In this, having knowledge, is to be able to find a higher state of being, and to be ignorant means that one is grounded and cursed, unable to leave. William Shakespeare, the man who wrote Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and so many more works, is believed to one of the smartest and most enlightened men to live. He is…
Is Neo really “the One”? “The Matrix” is a very well organized movie. There are many different scenes that symbolize various types of conclusions about society. Neo, Trinity, Morpheus, Cypher, Switch, as well as many other characters have different meanings to their names. In order to see all of the symbolic references in “The Matrix” you need to look very closely. “The Matrix” illustrates that modern-day life may not be as simple and complex as it could be. Characters in “The Matrix” are part…
celebrating his deeds and accomplishments or him taking his place in society as a more mature version of himself. When we are first introduced to Neo, he is fallen asleep on his computer with his headphones on. His room is a mess and poorly lit, with a number of random articles on his computer. From these few details, we quickly learn what kind of person Neo is. He is your typical shut-in computer geek who should probably get out…