Thomas Anderson is a man that lives two lives: by day he’s a computer programmer at a reputable company, and by night he’s a hacker with an alter ego that goes by the name of Neo. Neo eventually goes too far down the rabbit hole when questioning his reality, and becomes a target of the police after stumbling across The Matrix and is contacted by a man named Morpheus (a legendary computer hacker). Morpheus shows Neo the “real world”, a society where most of humanity have been captured by machines that live off of the humans' bodies. They imprison the human minds within an artificial reality known as the Matrix. Neo is thought to be “The One”, the only rebel to be able to take out the agents (advanced computer systems who act as humans) that are devoted to taking out the rebellion.
Humans refuse to believe that there is such a thing as a
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Since everything we know is based on our experiences, thoughts, feelings and sense impressions, having anything outside the norm happening triggers an automatic negative and disbelieving response- solipsism even says we come to know everything only by our senses. In the Matrix, there was a scene where this is proved. During the film, after Neo was told what the Matrix is and how they are able to exist in it without becoming a slave to the machines, he is surprised when he starts bleeding and says to Morpheus “I thought this wasn’t real?” and Morpheus replies “What is real? How do you define 'real'? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain”. This merely proves how the world that exists for us is the only one we believe in. However, over time we have proved to ourselves that all that is known now, might not be all that is ever known, “The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple” (Wilde). Our realities are also subjective. An argument can be made that a dream you cannot wake up