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    The Matrix is a film directed by the Wachowski Brothers depicting a future in which machines rule. The machines have created a complex computer program called “the matrix” which simulates a form of reality. The machines have enslaved humans by hooking them up to the matrix so that they can harvest them as an energy source. A number of people have been able to escape the matrix and they continue to fight the war against the machines in hopes of being able to free everyone still trapped within the

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    ‘The Matrix’ directed by Lilly and Lana Wachowski is a film set in the future where all of the human race have been captured by machines and the humans are now living in a virtual reality (known as ‘The Matrix’) as a source of energy for the machines. A small number of humans have escaped the matrix, thanks to a man called Morpheus, and now live in the real world. Neo is one of these people who escape the matrix. Neo must face the enemies to overcome the matrix and set humanity free.I have explored

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    Analysis Of 'he Matrix By The Wachowski Brothers, And Its Exploration Of Christianity 'The Matrix', a 1999 film by the Wachowski Brothers, is a psychologically disturbing film that questions the reality of our existence. This film is a story with a moral plot, about a group of renegades fighting a noble battle for truth, and the liberation of the human race. The film revolves around a character called Thomas Anderson (also known online under the alias of 'Neo', a

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    The movie The Matrix, written and directed by The Wachowski brothers, can be seen as the ultimate Marxist metaphor. Its basic premise is that the world as we know it is fake; it is a “computer simulated dreamworld”, mimicking our own world of the late 90s, called the Matrix. In charge of the Matrix itself is a seemingly malevolent sentient machine species. Even worse, the sole purpose of this simulation is to control humanity, which has been enslaved inside the simulation for several hundreds of

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    order to embrace the horrible truth? We follow the main character down the cyber rabbit hole in The Matrix, an American action sci-fi film released on March 31, 1999. It is the second film to be directed and written by Andy and Lana Wachowskis, formerly known as the Wachowskis Brothers. The film stars Keanu Reeves as Thomas Anderson, a computer programmer by day and a hacker named Neo by night. Thomas has a feeling that something isn’t right, and tries to peruse knowledge on the mysterious Matrix in

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    impossibilities of our imagination, in a way that is realistic and believable, is one that is hard to replace within the genres of science fiction and fantasy. A classic example of such a film is ‘The Matrix’ a science fiction masterpiece directed by The Wachowski Brothers. Released in 1999, the film has an extreme amount of depth not only in its storyline, but in its innovative use of visual effects and camerawork. Therefore in this essay I have decided to critically examine the underlying thematic content

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    The general statement made by The Wachowskis in their movie The Matrix is that having courage is an important quality in life because it helps when people are faced with tough decisions. More specifically in the scene when Neo fought all three agents by himself he was being courageous by just acting instead of thinking what might happen to him. The main character Thomas Anderson also known as Neo is not a very courageous person before he enters the matrix. Neo definitely is a courageous

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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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    aspects of society often inspire films. Filmmakers usually hyperbolize issues in order to position the audience to perceive the world in a certain way. At the start of a new millennium, where computers and the Internet were getting popular, the Wachowski brothers decided to make a movie to inform the world of the dangers of letting technology control our lives. The movie, The Matrix, is a film about how humans have become brainwashed and confined in a highly technological time. The main character

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    would know that they were living in a world of lies. They would probably believe that every action performed by their senses were true. Plato’s Simile of the Cave sheds light on this this idea which is also adapted by the 1999 movie by Andy Wachowski & Lana Wachowski, ‘The Matrix.’ Both works have allegorical meanings which explains how people are trapped by some sort of limitations they have which could also serve as a deterrent to their further understanding. This movie ‘The Matrix’ shares a common

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