How does the opening and/or closing sequence of The Matrix contribute to the audience's growing awareness that the apparently real world is in fact a virtual-reality simulation?

... Elizabeth Flanagan 10E Film Analysis - The Matrix How does the opening and/or closing sequence of The Matrix contribute to the audience's growing awareness that the apparently real world is in fact a virtual-reality simulation? The first section of the film establishes what the film is going to be about. It sets the atmosphere and introduces some of the main characters. Without giving the plot away, hints are dropped which question reality and imply that there is another world and that not everything is what it seems. This leads the audience to suspect that something is different or unusual, leaving them anxious to find out what. This is in contrast to the last section of the film where the audience's suspicions that something does not agree with the nature of life today is confirmed as we see that Neo (the main character) finally becomes "The One" against all the odds. In

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