phlosophy in the matrix

             On 1999, the weekend before Easter (purpose or no?) the matrix hit movie lovers by surprise. Similar to the star wars culture it started cult viewers into questioning and even believing the story. This film from start to finish comes on strong, promising to give viewers insight on a science fiction world that so narrowly resembles ours. This has brought close examination of this film and its messages, and is the outcome that I hope to derive from my study; the different levels of interpretation of the matrix.
             Firstly what does the word 'matrix' mean? The above states quite clearly that it basically means 'a womb'. But this simple 6 letter word has somewhat became twisted around the films plot by the Wachowski brothers to mean something on an a lot more 3 dimensionally spiritual level.
             The backbone of this film relies a lot on the simple question of 'what is the matrix'. This phrase only becomes technologically explained leaving you, on a personal level to subconsciously debate the question. This brings the film into a different light. One that so similarly resembles reality, which puts unstable minds and those who rely on movies to provide a safe haven from the harmful natures of reality, into questioning the probability that are 'we living in a matrix'.
             This fear, brought on the eve of the new millennium, was cantered around the already present technological fear of A.I. Acting on the moral panic that A.I. has been progressively inducing. It states that some day humanity will be surpassed and replaced as top proprietors on earth by its own creations: machines.
             ''I can visualize a time in the future when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans"
             This naturally gives the film controversial appeal acting on an existing panic and achieves an already naive audience base, which may relate or find this story believable or forthcoming.
             Examples of this were cre...

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