The Matrix
The Matrix is a movie about a computer generated world in which humans are now trapped, because Artificial Intelligence is now the prominant life form on earth; in order to survive, these robots use human beings as an omnipresent source of energy. To ensure human subservience, they entrap all of them into a virtual world called The Matrix, a computer reality simulating the late 1990s, although in the movie the year is close to 2199 The characters are in search for “The One”-a human that can exert mass amount of control in the matrix-and believe they have found him in Neo. Through the movie, they seek to provide truth to everybody in the matrix and bring Neo to maturity. By the end of the movie, it was clear: Neo is the one. Able to easily stop bullets and even fly, he is a human like no other inside of this virtual world. However, the Matrix truely seems like a grand Metaphor for greater implications of authority and conformation to societal norms. The likelihood that right now, we are trapped in a virtual world is slim; however the likelihood that we are in some way oppressed by a greater societal force is valid. Neo, or formerly Thomas Anderson, began as the oppressed and underappreciated worker, illustrating a greater implication of daily oppression we face in day to day life as part of a greater societal machine. The gray color schemes associated with his corporation, the agents, contrasted with the jet black uniforms of the freedom fighters shows a stark rebellion in the face of an overwhelmingly dull reality. Reality, as the Wachowski Brothers have tactfully shown, is not conformity to the world others set out for us. It is not living as others have instructed us to live. It is the difference between “knowing the path, and walking the path.” It is manifesting your own destiny.