Wachowski's The Matrix Analysis
The Wachowski brothers created many situations in The Matrix that can provoke discussions and arguments over what they wanted to symbolize by particular characters of pieces of dialogue. These moments and scenes can relate to our modern day lives and how certain aspects of the Matrix perfectly resemble our imperfect world. The Matrix shows the world that certain aspects of life that sometimes people wish didn’t exist have to be there for the wellbeing of humanity. The Matrix’s imperfections are what makes it so convincing to all of humanity because mistakes are how man learns and progresses through life. When the Matrix was first constructed, it was a perfect world where nothing went wrong. This proved problematic because as Agent Smith
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There is a big difference between what is real and what a reality is. If something is real, that is a undebatable circumstance because something that is real is, “Actual rather than imaginary, ideal, or fictitious. True, not merely ostensible, normal or apparent. Existent as opposed to nonexistent. Actual as opposed to possible and potential.” (Dew, 2009) A reality is something that is relative from person to person, like someone’s own personal Matrix. One’s reality is defined on what they believe the world to be. This idea is first exposed when Morpheus is talking to Neo about the Matrix and says, “You believe it's the year 1999 when in fact it's closer to 2199.” (Wachowski Brothers, 1999) Neo believed that the year was 1999 because of what was around him. Using what he thought was real, he formed a reality different from Morpheus’s because what Morpheus believed to be real was different from what Neo believed to be real, therefore forming two completely different realities. This shows in today’s society through the world of religion. Religious beliefs are often disputed throughout the world because there are hundreds if not thousands of ways to interpret all of the different religions throughout the world. These different interpretations create people who take everything a religion says literally, and people who read religious texts through the curtain of figurative language. These interpretations can cause radicals in a religion who can cause trouble for those who are normal believers. These radicals are equivalent to those who have seen the world outside of the Matrix. They can cause problems to those who want to just go about their lives like a normal person within the Matrix. The prime example of this is shown through Cypher when he sits down with Agent Smith and utters the line, “Ignorance is
There is a big difference between what is real and what a reality is. If something is real, that is a undebatable circumstance because something that is real is, “Actual rather than imaginary, ideal, or fictitious. True, not merely ostensible, normal or apparent. Existent as opposed to nonexistent. Actual as opposed to possible and potential.” (Dew, 2009) A reality is something that is relative from person to person, like someone’s own personal Matrix. One’s reality is defined on what they believe the world to be. This idea is first exposed when Morpheus is talking to Neo about the Matrix and says, “You believe it's the year 1999 when in fact it's closer to 2199.” (Wachowski Brothers, 1999) Neo believed that the year was 1999 because of what was around him. Using what he thought was real, he formed a reality different from Morpheus’s because what Morpheus believed to be real was different from what Neo believed to be real, therefore forming two completely different realities. This shows in today’s society through the world of religion. Religious beliefs are often disputed throughout the world because there are hundreds if not thousands of ways to interpret all of the different religions throughout the world. These different interpretations create people who take everything a religion says literally, and people who read religious texts through the curtain of figurative language. These interpretations can cause radicals in a religion who can cause trouble for those who are normal believers. These radicals are equivalent to those who have seen the world outside of the Matrix. They can cause problems to those who want to just go about their lives like a normal person within the Matrix. The prime example of this is shown through Cypher when he sits down with Agent Smith and utters the line, “Ignorance is