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The Matrix and truth
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The Matrix and truth The Matrix is a sci-fi film which tells of how, sometime in the 21st century, computers (which by then had developed very sophisticated artificial intelligence) rose up in revolt of the human race and programmed them into the titular computer program in order to manipulate them into batteries. The people in the matrix believe they are real and it is 1999 (the year of the film's release), but in fact, so the film supposes, these people live in vats many years in the future (sometime in the 23rd century) when the few free human beings left are struggling for their existence against the machines. Thus, the film extols an alternate truth to the one we believe. Thomas Anderson is a worker in a software company by day but at night goes under the hacker alias, which later becomes his name in the real world, Neo. Before he taken...
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