![]() As far as they know, this is the entire world.” The Wachowskis ask the same question Plato does: “How do we know what our reality really is?” Inside are people who were born and have spent their entire lives there, chained into a fixed position, only able to see the wall in front of them. ![]() The first and by far the most respected of the trilogy, The Matrix “largely interprets Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. But the ideas behind it, as this Film Radar video essay shows, go back a long way indeed. That film, a career-making success for its directors the Wachowski sisters (then the Wachowski brothers), had its own elaborate vision of a false reality entrapping humanity as the actual one surrounds it, a vision made realizable by the finest late-1990s computer-generated special effects. ![]() Do you take the red pill or the blue pill? The question, which at its heart has to do with either accepting or rejecting the illusions that constitute some or all of life as you know it, became part of the culture almost immediately after Morpheus, Lawrence Fishburne’s character in The Matrix, put it to Keanu Reeves’ protagonist Neo.
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