Comparing The Allegory In The Matrix, Dark City

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Two thousand years ago, the Greek philosopher Plato presented the allegory of the cave, several prisoners who have been chained up in a cave for their whole lives. They were facing a wall, unable to turn their head and never been outside. What they can see is those shadows projected on the wall from things passing in front of a fire behind them, the sounds of the people talking echo off the shadowed wall, pensioners falsely believe these sounds come from the shadows and mistake appearance for reality. This allegory have inspired lots of film such as The Matrix, Dark City. Putting the aspect of philosophy aside, peoples found that there are such striking similarities between what happened in the allegory and the features of film. The image projected …show more content…

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