You may still be saying “well, what is the matrix?” The matrix is a computer program designed by the machines (A.I.) to keep the human race under control. It tricks the mind into believing us that we have a CHOICE, that we can choose our own destiny, when in reality the world’s population has been sentenced to serve out eternity as a Duracell battery for the machines.

While to the majority of audiences that are oblivious to the underlying symbolism throughout the movie, they just see it as just another mind blowing action packed film. However to that minority who are able to see past the blown up Hollywood hype can really relate to the true meaning of this movie. The two biggest questions it asks the audience in my opinion are that of reality and existenc

Existence is the other philosophical aspect that this movie questions in quite detail. If we lived inside the matrix we would infact be living a lie. And once removed from the matrix our minds would have to face the harsh reality that everything we owned, everything we did and everything we prided ourselves on were just dreams, made realistic by a computer program. This harsh “withdrawal” from the known “truth” is seen by Neo in two parts of the film, the first time it is occurred is when he comes out of the loading program and slurs the words “I don’t believe, I won’t believe it, let me out.” This sense of “withdrawal” is also seen when Neo is in the car going to matrix and Neo says “I have these memories from my previous life, none of them happened”

We do not meet “the one” in the first scene, however we hear his name referred to by the agents as “Neo”. Right from the start we see Neo symbolic to a saviour or messiah type character. In the early parts of the film the Wachowski brothers use dialogue to illustrate this connection between Neo and the saviour Jesus Christ. When the audience is first introduced to Neo he has been woken up by a group of lower class people that are purchasing a computer disk. The dialogue explained before was a key point in this scene is when the man buying the disk states “Hallelujah! You’re my saviour man! My own personal Jesus Christ” Immediately the connection between Neo and Jesus is set into the minds of the audience.

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