Wachowski siblings film, The Matrix, and Campbell’s hero’s journey. While producing this film, the siblings used the hero’s journey as the backbone. It starts out with the call to adventure, then the road of trials, and later the apotheosis. The apotheosis is the point in which the character has gained further insight is attained. With having this greater knowledge, the hero is now able to go on to a more arduous adventure. In the Wachiowski’s Siblings film The Matrix, Neo’s pout of realization…
Another text with similar context is the film ‘The Matrix’, directed by the Wachowski Brothers. This text uses the setting itself as the main medium for representation. This film is seemingly set in the modern world, but this setting is actually an elaborate illusion designed by artificial intelligence to reduce humans to a resource. Bothe these texts use ideas inspired by modern technology, allowing for…
Allowing for the virtual world to become our reality, is also seen in the sci-fi thrilling movie, Tron: Legacy (2010). Tron: Legacy, is the remade version of Tron, originally released in 1982, just one year before Videodrome. Though Tron: Legacy carries a completely different plot than Videodrome, the cyberpunk themes seen in the film are repeated, though not all. Tron tells the story of a young man named Sam Flynn whose father, former CEO of ENCOM (a large and global video game corporation) who…
The Allegory of The Matrix Famous astronomer Galileo Galilei once said that “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them”. He is a renowned intellectual as well as an astronomer, he believed in always finding the truth. He believed that it is the most important aspect of life. This is very similar to the views of Plato and the Wachowskis’, they believe that even if the truth is hidden from us, we must strive to find it. In Plato's "Allegory of the…
same storyline was brought back up in 1999, hollywood decided to make The Matrix. The Matrix takes the main character, Neo, for a wild ride. The beginning, Neo lives out his life as a computer hacker, however he does not know it but, he is in the…
a platform for confusion and sometimes even denial. Plato’s “Allegory of The Cave,” and The Matrix both contain instances of people who have experience with the process of learning entirely new concepts. In the “Allegory of the Cave,” prisoners are exposed to shadows for all of their lives. This lifelong exposure resulted in the belief that the displayed shadows are the actuality. Furthermore, in The Matrix, Neo is apprised that the world he lives in is nonexistent. In reality, Neo’s life 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?” (Matrix).…
philosophers till present. The Matrix is a science fiction movie which illustrates the human existence being deceived in a dream world which is far off from the real world. The matrix as in the name of the movie is defined as the dream world, where humans are deceived by the Artificial Intelligence (AI). Throughout the movie, the main character Neo has always questioned his reality and wishes to learn the answer to the question "What is the Matrix?" The philosophy of the movie, The Matrix shows…
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…
After analyzing the 1999 thriller “The Matrix”, it brought up a lot of interesting topics for which can now be analyzed more thoroughly 18 years into the present. 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…