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The Matrix and Plato's Allegory of the Cave

After some thoughts, I do found some interesting similarities of relationship between the movie Matrix and the Plato's Allegory of the Cave but some question about their theory. Primary, I would like to say that at the beginning of the story, both of them do have initiation which is humans are prisoners that being blindfolded by their jailer or at least a culprit that make them only observe and see whats in front of their eyes only. At this point, it does make me question, why don't they think? Will they ever questioned themselves about their surroundings? For instance, why they only can see things in front of their eyes or even question who makes them to expose the situation they have right now? However, after that I think that it might be just some imperfection out of something, just like everything in our world, majority of us are too afraid of thinking something that is not logical and make sense to us, that is how we think in this world now. Secondly , after the ONE has realized what was actually happened surround him and comprehended the reality, he started to see and experienced the outside world and eventually the choice has arrived which make him to choose to stay remain to his unreal world or take risk and think out-of-box to explore the new world. Similarly, the movie Matrix, we can find that Neo, the One, after swallowed the "red pill" and he started to realize the reality, he was in dilemma to accept the truth after he realized what the real Matrix was and eventually he chose to accept the real world and embrace the truth. Lastly, the one who choose to embrace the real world would have decision to make whether to go back to the fake world to help the rest or refused to do so. Same thing as the movie Matrix, Neo chose the salvation and save the rest of the mankind to free from the bondage of machines and the fake world they lived in.

Ng Cheng Ghee
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