Hilaria, Ronald Daniel L. THE MATRIX INTFILO

The matrix according to the movie is a unique reality that is created by cyber intelligence. It is a place

wherein the rebels (Morpheus and his team) go out to battle the agents or the antagonist of the movie. The matrix

is a computer generated place where one’s mind can go and visit to. Everything is possible within the matrix, but on

the other hand, matrix is not the reality. Matrix according to the movie is the world where we live in. People don’t

know that it exists even if they are inside it. The Matrix therefore, was a dream within a dream. Part of this is a

reality for the humans; the other part was used by the rebels as a virtual reality or avenue to fight agents. The film

problematizes reality by making us think that we do not live in a reality. That may be everything that we are doing

now is under the so called matrix. It questions reality, and if there is really something beyond where we are now.

The movie tells us that no one can know about the matrix. So it is possible that we are in the matrix now. Matrix

problematizes knowledge because it makes people question what they really know. Another instance is when trinity

was plugged with the software that enables her to know how to drive a helicopter. It makes her smarter inside the

matrix, but it’s only until there. It also again questions us about reality, especially in the means of eating. There is a

line wherein cypher tells us that the matrix tells him that that it is juicy and delicious (steak). After nine years, he

realizes that ignorance is bliss. Matrix problematizes knowledge because the matrix tells us that everything is only

an illusion, a dream within a dream.

The matrix is all about connecting yourself to a machine and brings your mind somewhere else. It makes

your mind wander in the matrix, while your body is in the real world. The matrix for me makes us believe that the

mind can be distinctly different with the body. The mind can go places wherein the body cannot. It can do things the

body cannot do. The mind is that powerful. On the other hand, the body is also one with the mind. Whenever

something happens inside the matrix, the body dies externally in the other world. This is true for Switch and the rest

of them. An important scene happens when neo died for a while after a battle with an agent. Neo had almost been

considered as the one, not until he saw blood and believed that the matrix is real. Trinity, on the external world

talked to the then dead body of neo saying that she loves him and kissed him. The brain is still alive during that

moment. Because of this, he felt alive and believed that the matrix is not real. This is true for neo.

I believe that the movie is purely science fiction because of a lot of reason. If the matrix is said to be real,

then someone should have already proven it at this day and age. By prove I mean, someone is doing something like

what the matrix does. Also, someone from the other side should have gone back and spilled the secrets of the

matric for the movie to be made. But as we know, it is not impossible, because there is no bridge at all. I can also

say for a fact that no one really knows if the matrix existed or not. There is no actual evidence to deny its existence.

There are no tell-tale signs of the matrix. The world of Neo seemed just like our world, our reality. So can you be

sure that you are in the matrix? I don’t think so.