Postmodern Ideas In The Film The Matrix

The Matrix is a world that feels more realistic than the actual one. In the film The Matrix, Neo is considered “the one” and he spends the whole moving trying figure out if that is the truth. The father figure of the group; Morpheus, is convinced that Neo is “the one” too, and trusts that he can get them out of the predicament that they are in. The Matrix demonstrates multiple postmodern ideas. A few of those ideas include: hyperreality, the world being complex and uncertain, and all of the truth being relative. Hyperreality is a separate world that feels more realistic than the real one. The film shows how they would go under and pop into the “real” world which is under Zion’s control. When Neo was living in the world he considered real he began to become skeptical of it. So, he started to research it. While he starts to research it, people begin to search for Neo and bring him to Morpheus. Morpheus then offers Neo a blue and red pill; he picks the red pill. The red pill caused him to be reborn again. After all of this occurs he is in disbelief that he has been living in a matrix his whole life. After entering the real world he realizes that the matrix he was living in before all seemed to be so real, even more

For instance, when Morpheus takes Neo to the oracle, he sees a little boy sitting on the carpet with a spoon in his hand; Neo was very puzzled by this so he sat and watched for a minute. The little boy looked up and said “ Do not try to bend the spoon, that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth… there is no spoon. Then you’ll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself”(Matrix). When Neo thought about it and started to believe in his own abilities and the only thing that mattered was his own point of view He had to believe in himself to be capable of saving Morpheus from the “agents”, that is where all the truth being relative comes