" The Matrix" is a movie that is visually stunning to the eye, yet it is also an important movie as it expresses many themes such as freedom, what is " real" and " reality", truth and .
philosophy on a level that helps the audience to understand the themes no a much deeper level.
The Matrix is a very futuristic SCI Fi type of film, as it set in a made up world. A world of pleasures and life. But all is not what it seems. All is not real .The film has been made .
famous for it's groundbreaking cinematography, video and sound effects which were seen very innovative and imaginative for it's time. .
The Matrix is a movie that emphasises many themes, which have many layers to them. .
An important theme that is portrayed in the movie is freedom. In the dictionary, the word .
" free" means " enjoying personal right or liberty, as one who is not in slavery or .
confinement". Yet in the matrix, human beings are being put in slavery by the machines and it's characters like Morpheus who are rescuing them. Unfortunately, some of them are not ready or want to be " unplugged", as Morpheus says in the movie " The mind has trouble .
letting go".
An image that can help re enforce this theme is the " Lady in red". She is a "bug" that is put in a training simulation for Neo. If he turns around the simulation ends. He has the freedom to look around and admire the "temptation" or he can continue on his journey, yet he .
unfortunately succumbs to her .The main point for this is that he has the freedom to look at her or not, yet it is his assignment to realise doing that could jeopardise a mission.
Another major theme that is portrayed in the movie is " reality" and " what is reality"?.
The word " real" has a lot of meanings and layers of meaning. It means:.
* " Ideal or fictitious ".
*"true, normal or apparent".
*" existent as opposed to nonexistent".
*"actual as opposed to possible or potential".
In " The Matrix" the characters are forced to contemplate the meanings of reality.
