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    Film Noir Features in Blade Runner and The Matrix “The Matrix” has a main science fiction theme but also includes features of film noir films. It is directed and written by Andy and Larry Wachowski. Other than Science Fiction and film noir the film can also be classed as a Hybrid. “Blade Runner” is more of a film noir film than “The Matrix”. Although it does include action and fighting scenes but these have film noir features in them. Most ideas about the film are

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    succeeds to learn the secret of the Matrix. They form an underground and live aboard a ship, loosely communicating with a halcyon city called "Zion", the last bastion of resistance. In one of the scenes, Cypher, one of the rebels defects. Over a glass of (illusory) rubicund wine and (spectral) juicy steak, he poses the main dilemma of the movie. Is it better to live happily in a perfectly detailed delusion - or to survive unhappily but free of its hold? The Matrix controls the minds of all the

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    The Matrix The Matrix is a science fiction movie about artificial intelligence computers replacing mankind. I believe that this movie is a common type of display from the media is common paranoia so that they can get a reaction from people and sell their story. In the case of The Matrix, the movie dazzles people with awesome special effects using modern computer technology, which I find ironic. I find it self-conflicting and hypocritical for the media to use modern computer technology for their

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    Blade Runner Modernism

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    The movie I chose to watch was Blade runner which screened back in 1982. The plot is set in the year of 1982 in Los Angeles, California. The protagonist of this film is Deckard, an ex-cop who is back on duty to catch replicants that are bioengineered robots in an identical body of a human being. The antagonists are 6 replicates who have found their way back to Earth illegally from an off-Earth location in order to find their creator, Tyrell to get knowledge on how to extend their lives. The conflict

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    too difficult to accept. In order to find meaning in one’s life while suffering or experiencing a difficult situation, meaning is often found in illusions and false hoods, rather than in reality. Within Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, The Matrix, and

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    Ghost in the Shell (Oshii Mamoru, 1995) is a substantial film that depicts a future where man and machine are intertwined. Set in the year 2029 A.D., East Asia has become a corporate society that has flourished in the advancement of technology. Presented with a future of advanced cybernetics and sophisticated networks, the mainstream for many in this progressive culture is body modification and augmentation. The meld between man and machine has resulted in the creation of what is known throughout

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    The Matrix Plato

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    The Matrix (1999) presents to viewers a computer hacker known as Neo. By day, Neo (his alter-ego is Mr. Anderson) is a computer programmer, and at night he sells hacked software. Morpheus, a character who attempts to awaken humans from a dreamlike trance known as the Matrix, solicits the assistance of Neo. Morpheus offers Neo the chance to see the truth about the world in which he lives. Neo, and other humans as well, are housed as biochemical food for the artificial intelligence that controls the

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    Just what is The Matrix? This is the question that the extremely entertaining and absurdly thought provoking movie The Matrix, by The Wachowski Brothers, hopes to answer. How can we know that WE don't live in the Matrix? That is the question that the movie hopes that we can answer for ourselves. The movie opens with the apparent double life of Thomas Anderson. Thomas Anderson works a normal job as a computer programmer, but spends his free time as a freelance hacker known by the name of Neo.

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    Descartes, and the Matrix Latalvin Bullock Liberty University Is what I am seeing real or is it a figment of my imagination? Many people have found themselves asking this question at some point in their life. This has been a subject that has been addressed by many philosophers. In this paper the approach to this topic is centered on Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave and Descartes’s Meditation I of The Things Which We May Doubt as compared to the movie The Matrix. One of the

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    Inception and The Cave Imagine you are chained up from the time you are a baby all the way up until now, where all you know and see are shadows on a cave wall. One day, you are removed, removed from everything you thought you once knew only to find it wasn't real. This type of shock is exactly what happened to the cave prisoners in Plato’s allegory of the cave. The cave is an illusion of reality to those within. The movie Inception takes an interesting twist on this idea of a false reality through

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