Philosophical Film Review The Matrix
The movie The Matrix is about the journey of a character called Neo who is awoken from what he knows to be reality and is freed out of the computer simulation known as The Matrix. The main philosophical theme is based around Rene’ Descartes fear- ‘what if the real world in which we perceive is actually only a dream?’ What Neo perceived as his reality, changes when he is offered two pills, one will return him to his dream state the other will allow him to be released out of the computer simulation, beyond the control of The Matrix. ... What the people in the Matrix are experiencing is a system of appearances, but they cannot ever understand the basis of their experience of the world. This then shows that the people in the Matrix have a very epistemological position similar to Kant. ... We would not know any different unless like Neo we were actually shown This then leads on to the Rationalist argument and Plato’s theory of the cave that ‘we are all prisoners trapped in a cave, we don’t see the cave we all see the shadows’, as Neo was trapped looking at the shadows of the Matrix.