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Analysis of the Movie the Matrix
"What is the Matrix"(Simulacra and Simulation)

"It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth"
-Morpheus

The Matrix makes many connections to Simulacra and Simulation. In an early scene, Simulacra and Simulation is the book in which Neo hides his illicit software.

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none.

Simulacra and Simulation is most known for its discussion of images, signs, modern society has replaced all reality and meaning with symbols and signs, and that the human experience is of a simulation of reality rather than reality itself.

"Welcome to the desert of the real"
in the Matrix when Morpheus was showing Neo the real world. Before having a type of rebirth, Neo believed that his world existed as he saw, felt, and generally sensed it. However, the world that he lived in was nothing more than an abstraction. This abstraction was so advanced that the majority of the people actually believed that there was nothing else even though they were being harvested and grown for their energy.

The simulation was so advanced and powerful that it completely veiled the true reality. Then, what of the real world? The real world was neither needed nor used because, for most of the people it was completely unknown. Neo was able to see the true appearance of the world as darkening, decaying, and, becoming a type of hell in appearance. Even though it physically resembled hell.

After Neo got over the initial shock of the appearance of the real world, he realized that the simulation was the actual hell where the people were trapped within their minds and with no recognition of this. The fight against the matrix is not completed until after the second and third movies but, the first movie can be analyzed with its own katabasis and anabasis. Neos katabatic journey involved him traveling back into the matrix, gaining an understanding of what it truly was in order to combat its hold over him, and returning.




There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.

They will try to hold onto the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly.

Know the river has its own destination. ~

The Elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open and our heads above water. , see who is in there with you and celebrate."
— Prayer of the Hopi Elders



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