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    Last night, I watched ‘The Matrix’ for the first time and that movie plays a perfectly role in the question, “what it is to be human.” Think about a world that is unreal, how would we even know if the world we live in is unreal? What if we are all in a virtual world that makes our brain think we are actually doing something? As of right now, I am typing a paper for my English 212 class at Saginaw Valley State University; in the Matrix this is what you should be thinking. If you see it, smell it,

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    what they perceive to be reality is seen in both the Matrix and Plato’s famous ‘Allegory of the Cave.’ But in the case of said works, those who inhabit the fictional universes are lead to believe their perspective on the nature of reality is the sole possible viewpoint, much like individuals in real life. Although unlike humanity, these individuals are later shown that their past reality was nothing more than a cruel facade. In the case of the Matrix, It tried to implant such thought provoking messages

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    ‘The Matrix’ is a film about a simulated reality in which humans are programmed to a neural interactive simulation. The film is very similar to the bible due to the way that it has used symbolism to present situations and scenes. The Gospel of John and some scriptures from the bible were taken to compare to the film to show similarity and relevance.There are themes in which the Bible and the Matrix have in common and these are ; evil is living in the ignorance of truth, resurrection and the truth

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    film The Matrix, we follow a character by the name of Thomas Anderson also known as Neo. Early in the film, Neo starts having what could be viewed as hallucinations or dreams that bleed into what he deems as his reality. After the first of the incidences, Neo meets a woman named Trinity. Trinity knows Neo has been searching for a man who goes by the name of Morpheus. She Tells Neo it is not Morpheus he is looking for but an answer to the one question that haunts him “What is the Matrix?”. Through

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    “The Matrix” is a pluralistic film, in that it takes bits and pieces of many major religions or philosophies and combines them into one film with a resulting patchwork quilt of ideas. One of the main religions or philosophies that “The Matrix” drew from was, Buddhism. With the martial arts elements present, it makes sense that the Buddhist ideas that underlie most eastern fighting traditions would appear. The movie in particular, uses Zen Buddhist ideas and imagery, the most prominent example being

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    Einstein touches on how reality is not something that one can fully grasp without questioning the reality that you are in presently and both Plato and the Matrix address through their work. In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, he discusses how society controls information so that the people know only what they need to know and nothing more. In the Matrix they show how society has used the control of information to create an illusion of a "dreamworld" as Morpheus calls it, to crete a false sense of security

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    came up with a novel approach towards science fiction, and was instrumental in spawning multiple movies of similar genre. One of such movie is “The Matrix”. The reason I chose this movie for the review is the very concept of stimulated reality in this movie being quite analogous to the one slowly budding towards the end in the Neuromancer. The Matrix is a sci-fi heavily reliant on the theme of cyber culture and cyber punk. Like Case, Neo too is a computer hacker, but the similarity ends there. While

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    Hunger Games and Divergence, the dystopian theme in film is not a new one. The Matrix shows a society where humans exist without any freedom. The film, not only entertaining but thought provoking as well, paints a world with two different dimensions, a world very much like today’s when the film is closely examined. The Matrix questions the benefit of technology and influence over society. Like today’s world, in The Matrix technology dominates society. There are two dimensions in the film: the artificial

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    Many people may question how the movie the Matrix relates to ethics, or any other ethical theories. While watching the movie, I can honestly say that this movie relates to several different ethical theories. Ethics is basically the principle of how we behave and response to certain situations. It also consist of how our motives should be solved. In the movie the character cypher betray he friend, for the purpose of his selfish goals. Ethics relates to this part of the movie, because he is doing it

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    been trying to understand the meaning of life.This interrogation made people think about what the reality is.To find the answer of this question ,some philosophers,like Ancient Greek philosophers,came up with some approaches.Because the movie of The Matrix includes the examples of philosophical approaches,it removes from being ‘just a movie’. There are some similarities between Cave Allegory and the movie of The Matrix.In Cave Allegory,the captives think that the life they live and what they perceived

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