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The Matrix: The Wachowskis

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The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action movie written by its director, the Wachowskis. It portrays a dystopian world in the future in which reality, as considered by most humans, is actually a simulation of the real which they call “the matrix” created by machines to suppress the humans. The hacker and computer programmer, Neo, after knowing the truth is drawn to a rebellion against these machines with other people who have been freed from the “dream world”. The creation of super-smart hackers exists in somewhere else is something serious; exploring a whole world of simulation is a deep probe of reality and contemporary versions. In maybe the year 2050, people will be living in a computer simulation of what life was like in the early 21st …show more content…

people have become in a situation where they receive transmissive information, and this reality can be called a horrographic internet. One is receiving information and decodes it into a reality. Individuals become like computers in a Wi-Fi situation. The Matrix, which is a decoded reality is actually around us like the Wi-Fi which is all around us in a room but we can’t see it. Reality has become fragmented that its simulation has become more real than the reality itself, which is the situation of the hyperreal. Baudrillard argues that consumer culture has promoted an imitation of a thing that really exists and transform it to a simulated object that have created new reality in which they refer to. simulation has created a world of its own, and reality has become deconstructed to a desert. Morpheus, who is the captain of the hovercraft Nebuchadnezzar, welcomes Neo by referring to reality as “the desert of the real,” (1) which is a phrase taken from Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation. The Matrix can be represented as the unreal consumer that surrounds us, in which we are distracted by a person or a thing from reality itself, similar to the machines in the movie which exploit humans for

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