The film “The Matrix” looks closely at the values of our society through the use of narrative and other film techniques. Filters have been used to create worlds, ideas and concepts make us think while the clever sequencing of events directs us along an ordered pathway. Characters develop to tell us a story that can be related to our own lives. “The Matrix” shows us our society at its very best and its very worst points.

By using green and blue filters the Wachowski brothers created two worlds. In the “real world” a blue filter was used. This gave the effect of harshness and reality. Whereas the green filter used in the “Matrix” makes things blurry and dreamy. Society in the Matrix is unaware of what reality really is. They think it is what they can touch, see, taste, smell and hear. But they have been influenced to think this. The people in the Matrix do not know that they live in a “dream” world. Humans in our society like to believe they are in control of their lives but in the film they are dictated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Their lives are uneasy and in the hands of

AI. The green filter in the Matrix makes you feel uneasy and sick to represent the way society is being treated. To most humans the thought of something else being smarter and more dominating than they are is incomprehensible. Neo didn’t believe in fate. He said “I don’t like the feeling that that I’m not in control of my life.” The blue filter brings this realism back. When in the real world you can be more in control of your life because there is no manipulation from machines.

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