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The Matrix and the Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Plato's Allegory of the Cave is basically describing about what humans'  eyes see are actually illusion/lies from the real world. In some scenario, the objects we see might are only the shadow of the reality/truth.  Seems that  we were adapted to this illusion world since we were born, we can hardly differentiate which is the truth and which is not. We will 100% believe on what we see through our eyes .

Plato use human in the cave as his example for his allegory , as it is some-sort of related to the origin of the human living places. He described that the humans in the cave were chained, and the only thing they can see is the shadows on the wall.  Behind the human or "prisoners" burns a fire, and there is a parapet between the fire n the prisoners. The puppeteers hold up puppets then cast shadows on the wall of the cave.  The prisoners that chained could not see those puppet, the real object, but only the cast shadows on the wall. What prisoners hear and see are shadow and echoes.

The Matrix is about the main character Neo, who is controlled by the matrix agent. When Neo and his friend manage to escape from their "world", they realize that the life he has been leading so far is nothing but the life of a slave, shaped under the control of the Matrix, protected by the agent, just like the Plato's Allegory of the Cave.