The Matrix Resurrections
The Matrix 4 release date, first footage, title, cast and more news The Matrix 4 has an official title. It's named The Matrix: Resurrections. Keanu Reeves' Neo has returned to…
The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by the Lana and Lilly Wachowski .
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It depicts a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality, the Matrix, created by artificial beings .
The first film was an important critical and commercial success, winning four Academy Awards, introducing popular culture symbols such as the red pill and blue pill, and influencing action filmmaking.
The Matrix films makes numerous references to films and literature, and to historical myths and philosophy including Buddhism, Vedanta, Advaita . The films’ premise resembles Plato‘s Allegory of the cave, René Descartes‘s evil demon, Kant‘s reflections on the Phenomenon versus the Ding an sich, Zhuangzi‘s “Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly“, Marxist social theory and the brain in a vatthought experiment. Many references to Jean Baudrillard‘s Simulacra and Simulation appear in the first film .