Blog 3: The Matrix Analysis

In the movie “The Matrix”, we’re exposed to an alternate illusionary world called the matrix, which is a computer system. Its an illusion that humans live in, but fail to realize its not real. Its created so the machines would feed off of the humans as an energy source.

In Plato allegory of the cave, the prisoner was forced to go out to see what’s beyond the cave and he ran back because he refused to believe what he had seen or what he was told was a real.
In the movie, Neo is freed from the illusionary world by Morpheus. He who lives in the real world where there’s a war going on between humans and machines. Morpheus said that “most of them(humans) are so inured, so hopeless depending on the system, that they would fight to protect it”, because they refuse to accept reality. They only accepted what was in front of them. Morpheus said that “real is electrical signals interpreted by the brain”. Which brings us to Plato allegory of the cave where its says “if he is compelled to look straight at the light, will he not have a pain in his eyes which will make him turn away and take refuge in the objects of visions which he can see, and which he will conceive to be a reality clearer than the things which are now shown to him”.

In Today’s world people do all sorts of crazy things. Some overworked people would play video games to escape reality. Live in a world of shooting, killings and magic. Some would watch movies just to get away from things they don’t want to see. Just like the movie depicting how the matrix is fake, for example when Cypher in the matrix was having the steak, but he knew he couldn’t be satisfied with it because it wasn’t real.