The Matrix

Morpheus warns of brain elasticity and the inherent human desire to stick with what is known. Cyprus embodies this dilemma when he puts the lives of the rebels at risk in order to gain re entry to the Matrix. He exclaims that he wants to go back and that life is much better inside. This is an ominous forewarning for Neo, whom at the end of the film declares that he is going to free everyone. The chance of rebellion is massive because the masses are not…

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…

fundamentally altered by and bounded within the subject of perception’s accoutrements and that perception can be and moreover is controlled, modified and gerrymandered by the powers that be, to alter or suppress perception in their interests. The Matrix (1999) tells the story of Thomas Anderson, a miscreant cyber-criminal under alias ‘Neo’ revealed by other-worldly intervention from the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar to be the ham-fisted Jesus Christ allegory destined to save mankind from…

The movie I chose for this paper was, The Matrix. While watching this movie not only did the special effects and fight scenes interest me and make me think it was a good movie, but, additionally I noticed a lot of philosophical parallels. It's easy to see that The Matrix is based off of Plato's allegory, the cave. The cave is about a prison that people are trapped in and can't get out, they are seeing these images and shadows in front of them, but they are not aware that the real images are…

Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and so many more works, is believed to one of the smartest and most enlightened men to live. He is remarkable because he lived in a time where most people were uneducated. Just as in “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato and The Matrix by the Wachowski sisters, there is a prisoner in both who do not understand that they are prisoners, then freed to be enlightened.…

Christian Symbolism in The Matrix After doing some thorough research about The Matrix and it’s parallelistic comparison to Christianity, I discovered that there are many similarities and symbols liking the two stories, the first one being Neo and the comparison to Jesus. Neo is comparable to Jesus every since birth, where he literally born into the real world from the womblike incubator that he's existed in all his life. This reminded me of the “Virgin Birth” of the Messiah. Neo’s real name is…

a lot of people from accomplishing out of the ordinary goals. The movie “The Matrix directed by the Wachowski Brothers” adapt the structured world in a futuristic world that shifts it audience member concept toward their opinion toward their society.The film was apart of a movie blockbuster trilogy at the time.Therefore film used the main character Neo to create a shift in society that was the real world and the matrix world to put an end…

The Matrix of Domination as described by Patricia Hill Collins, is the interlocking system of oppression based on race, class, gender, and sexuality. The Matrix of Domination was initiated as a concept to represent the truth that in order to actually understand oppression we must understand its counter position of privilege. Moving beyond the decades old tradition of focusing only on the oppressed (African Americans, women, the poor, LGBTQ), the notion of the Matrix of Domination forces us to…

The 1999 film by Andy and Lana Wachowski, The Matrix, introduced a generation to an important epistemological question: How can a person be certain of what his senses tell him about the world he lives in? This question, explored modernly in the film by portraying reality as nothing more than a computer simulation implanted into humans’ sensory receptors by a race of intelligent super-computers, is nevertheless an idea that has intrigued philosophical thinkers for many ages. For example, in 1641,…

repetitive cycles that occur in any major hero story. He lays out the journey every hero must endure in order to fully develop into the hero they’re destined to be. One of the most contemporary myths that alludes to the mono myth is the 1999 film, The Matrix. Here, Thomas Anderson or Neo, the protagonist, is separated from the reality he’s always known and awakens to the truth of human existence. Through Campbell’s mono myth it becomes evident just how much they intertwine. In the…