The Matrix

I have a work to do for school about The Matrix I have 9 questions if some of you could help me it would be nice haha

1- What does the Matrix represents

2- What does the blue and red pills that Morpheo gives to Neo represents

3- Why does Neo eyes hurt after going out of his egg

4- What is the definition of the real according to Morpheus

5- What does the spoon experience shows

6 What does Cypher represents? What is his role?

7- What is the role of agent Smith and what does he represents

8- At the end of the film, Neo is using an attitude thay is used by Plato, what is it?

9- What does the Oracle say to Neo about his futur? And what does she tell him to not forget

The questions were originally in French I translated them the best I could. Thanks to the person who'd help me haha

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Wow. Maybe you should just try watching the flick. Eh? Eh?!?

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I watched it 3 times it's one of my favourite movies. I'd just like to compare my answers with yours that's all.

1- What does the Matrix represents

Answer - Technology becoming mankind's eventual downfall.

2- What does the blue and red pills that Morpheo gives to Neo represents

Answer - Not aware of any significance.

3- Why does Neo eyes hurt after going out of his egg

Answer - He's never opened them In the real world.

4- What is the definition of the real according to Morpheus

Answer - Well, he says in the film that reality is merely electrical signals processed by our brains. And with the recent development of robotic implants and nano-technology, it would seem the fake world of the Matrix is not that far beyond our technological capability to create.

5- What does the spoon experience shows

Answer - Maybe, that there are things in the world that will always be unchangeable.

6 What does Cypher represents? What is his role?

Answer - He represents peoples dependence on the Matrix, on artificial stimulus, rather then facing reality.


7- What is the role of agent Smith and what does he represents

Answer - Metaphorically, he is a computer virus.

8- At the end of the film, Neo is using an attitude thay is used by Plato, what is it?

Answer - If you mean the Philosopher, I haven't got a clue.

9- What does the Oracle say to Neo about his futur? And what does she tell him to not forget

Answer - Not sure.

Hope this helped.

What school do you go to? I wanna send them our answers so they can compare.

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Thanks a lot Sci fi slob !

If you take the Blue Pill, you'll get quick answers from MoFo and be on your merry way

If you take the Red Pill, you'll read Neuromancer by William Gibson,
and see just how deep the rabbit hole goes

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If we're talking about the first Matrix, Smith was not a computer virus. He was actually kind of like a firewall, protecting the Matrix from intruders. He wasn't a virus until Matrix Reloaded after his programming was destroyed by Neo, and he came back to infect the system he once protected.

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Google "Matrix" and "gnosticism." That's what it's really about.

1- What does the Matrix represents
Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.

2- What does the blue and red pills that Morpheo gives to Neo represents
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.

Supposedly the red pill represents "truth, nothing more".


3- Why does Neo eyes hurt after going out of his egg
Neo: Why do my eyes hurt?
Morpheus: You've never used them before.

4- What is the definition of the real according to Morpheus
If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain

5- What does the spoon experience shows
There is no spoon

6 What does Cypher represents? What is his role?
You need me, I'm the bad guy... oh wait, no, that's Scarface. I guess you can't answer all of these with quotes from the film after all. He's the bad guy. The traitor. But he's also Neo, if Trinity didn't fancy him and he got tired of the ship, being cold, eating the same ******* goop everyday...

7- What is the role of agent Smith and what does he represents
Never send a human to do a machine's job. Also the bad guy. The nemesis. The machine in man vs. machine.

8- At the end of the film, Neo is using an attitude thay is used by Plato, what is it?

Google The Matrix and Plato's Cave

9- What does the Oracle say to Neo about his futur? And what does she tell him to not forget
I think this is a straightforward case of 'you have to see it for yourself'.

thanks a lot !

1. The Matrix represents a subtle system of enslavement; "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
2. The blue pill is blissful ignorance. The red pill is a means of awakening Neo's true self - literally and figuratively.
3. He'd been asleep all his life.
4. Besides the obvious quote, Morpheus might say reality is something you just feel for yourself, a sense of orientation, good/bad, right/wrong, up/down, inside/outside. He seemed to suggest there's a deep inner "voice" that points out what's false or true and it's up to us whether to ignore or follow it.
5. Some rules can be bent. Others broken.
6. Cypher is sort of Neo's opposite, seeking a return to the Matrix and an easy illusory life. He represents a weakness in human character - desire to pursue personal satisfaction at any cost.
7. Smith's an Agent of the status quo but later becomes something more complex - an instability in the Matrix.
8. "Enlightenment", having seen what's "outside"?
9. I forgot...

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1- What does the Matrix represents
A: Control, Slavery and modern society

2- What does the blue and red pills that Morpheo gives to Neo represents
A: The illusion of a choice

3- Why does Neo eyes hurt after going out of his egg
A: He has newer used them before..

4- What is the definition of the real according to Morpheus
A: Reality is what you think it is. It's an illusion.

5- What does the spoon experience shows
A: If you know the rules, you can bend them.

6 What does Cypher represents? What is his role?
A: Someone who is happy by not knowing things, but realized it only after he knows them. (i.e. clueless makes you happy)

7- What is the role of agent Smith and what does he represents
A: He is the antivirus programm of the Matrix and therefore the main opponent of Neo. Being intelligent, he also develops his own interests, which is not to have to deal with humans again.

8- At the end of the film, Neo is using an attitude thay is used by Plato, what is it?
A: don't remember

9- What does the Oracle say to Neo about his futur? And what does she tell him to not forget
A: It depends on which scene. But in general she tells him that he is not the one. And that he will break the vase and he should not worry.

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I had 75% because I did a movie analysis instead of a philosophy analysis. -.-

And thanks a lot to those who answered it helped me a lot !

1- What does the Matrix represents
Slave labour and being out of control of your life. As Neo says, he doesn't believe in an actual Set Destiny.

2- What does the blue and red pills that Morpheo gives to Neo represents
This is a theme that runs throughout the whole trilogy. Choice/Freedom Vs Set Destiny.
Neo has to choose and then later learns that he must understand the choices he makes.
The Oracle explains this theme to him in the second film by saying he has no real choice in anything, because he has already made the choices, he now must understand why he makes them.

3- Why does Neo eyes hurt after going out of his egg
Because he is now using his real eyes... his real body has never been awake so his eyes hurt from the light. Rather much like when you wake up in the morning and daylight hurts your eyes.

4- What is the definition of the real according to Morpheus
The Real is basically human perception. Electrical signals interpreted by your brain: sight, smell taste and touch.

5- What does the spoon experience shows
It shows to Neo that everything he is experiencing in The Matrix digital world doesn't actually exist.

6 What does Cypher represents? What is his role?
Two things. One is that of a simple villain who wants back into the digital world as he hates the real world.
Secondly, Cypher is an example of the Set Destiny thing. If Neo is The One, then there is no way Cypher could pull the plug... yet something happens that stops him, pointing to the fact that Neo may actually have a Set Destiny after all.

7- What is the role of agent Smith and what does he represents
He represents in simple form: the opposite of Neo. The Matrix programming trying to level itself out through the Set Destiny thing. If Neo hadn't destroyed Smith in the first film, Super Smith couldn't exist... another throwback to the Choice Vs Destiny theme.

8- At the end of the film, Neo is using an attitude thay is used by Plato, what is it?
The overall Choice theme. This time it's simply that everyone is borne into slavery and has no control over anything they do as it is all predetermined (Set Destiny).
Neo vows to break this, unknowingly though, the choice he makes to break the machines' control is also predetermined. Making his action pointless in a way.

9- What does the Oracle say to Neo about his futur? And what does she tell him to
not forget
This sounds more like a trivia question and I haven't watched the films for yonks so I can't remember what she tells him not to forget.
I think his future is explained that he is not The One, and will end up seeing Morpheus die to defend him as Morpheus absolutely believes that Neo is The One... Neo must make the Choice to either save himself, or save Morpheus.
Another is that Neo has already made the choice whether to save Trinity or not and must understand why he has made that choice.
Again, these are the Choice Vs Set Destiny theme.




The entire Matrix franchise is a faux-philosophy based loosely on Buddhism, Christianity and Descartes.

Neo-Platonism plays a major role though.
Neo-Platonism: Neo
The One is also a theory of Neo-Platonism... "The One" in Neo-Platonism is God. Though in The Matrix this idea is slightly twisted.
Nous, another Neo-Platonist theory is that the mind is connected to The One (God)... again, in the films this is twisted to a more modern sense by using Humans with actual plugs in the backs of their heads that are a direct connection to The Matrix mainframe.

Another theory that runs heavily in Neo-Platonism is Idealism. A derivative of Idealism is also used in the films: The Architect says that they created a perfect world yet it was rejected by the Human mind because of the illusion of Choice, or lack of.

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