Movie Review: The Matrix And Plato's Allegory

The matrix

“You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” What pill would you take? The film, The Matrix, mirrors Plato’s allegory. They revolve around the concept of imprisonment of the mind. In other words, a slave, when a person’s mind is taken from reality. To further my explanation, they are controlled to believe that they are free. Although, they are not free, because they are living a life that’s not real.

The Plato’s Cave allegory is about prisoners that are chained in a cave since birth, that believe life in one state of reality. This was forced upon them. They cannot turn to see anything behind them because their necks were chained. The only thing they can see is the wall in the cave. Behind them was a burning fire. In between the fire and the prisoners was a parapet. The puppeteers hold up objects that cause shadows on the only wall the prisoners can see. They believe the shadows are reality. They would talk about the shadows as if they were the real objects. A prisoner was taken from what he believes is his home, his chains, and dragged outside as he was kicking and screaming, and blinded by the sun’s

The prisoners are blinded by what is reality and live a life not knowing what’s real or what’s false. In The Matrix, Neo and his team are literally strapped down in a machine in order to enter the program into the armature word. His mission is to save the real world and show them what’s real. In Plato’s allegory, the prisoners are chained in order to only see the shadows, and prisoners are taken to see the real world to teach the other prisoners what’s real. “Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses, “Is a quote from