THE MOVIE- THE MATRIX

Choose one of the quotes to write an essay of between 500 and 650 words. Your essay should be an analysis of the quote, its meanin" rel="nofollow">ing and its place in" rel="nofollow">in the movie. QUOTES FROM THE MOVIE THE MATRIX • "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. • "What is "real"? How do you defin" rel="nofollow">ine "real"?" • "I'm tryin" rel="nofollow">ing to free your min" rel="nofollow">ind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it." • "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream, Neo? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world? " • "What you know you can't explain" rel="nofollow">in, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's somethin" rel="nofollow">ing wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splin" rel="nofollow">inter in" rel="nofollow">in your min" rel="nofollow">ind, drivin" rel="nofollow">ing you mad." • “This is your last chance. After this, there is no turnin" rel="nofollow">ing back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in" rel="nofollow">in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in" rel="nofollow">in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.” • “The Matrix is everywhere. It's all around us, even in" rel="nofollow">in this very room. You can see it when you look out your win" rel="nofollow">indow or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to work, when you pay your taxes. The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blin" rel="nofollow">ind you from the truth. That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born in" rel="nofollow">into bondage, born in" rel="nofollow">into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison...for your min" rel="nofollow">ind” • "Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself." • Neo: “Why do my eyes hurt?” Morpheus: “You've never used them before. “ • Neo: “What is The Matrix?” Morpheus: “Control. The Matrix is a computergenerated dream world, built to keep us under control in" rel="nofollow">in order to change a human bein" rel="nofollow">ing in" rel="nofollow">into this. Morpheus holds up a battery to Neo. • "If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals in" rel="nofollow">interpreted by your brain" rel="nofollow">in." • "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're in" rel="nofollow">inside, you look around, what do you see? Busin" rel="nofollow">inessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very min" rel="nofollow">inds of the people we are tryin" rel="nofollow">ing to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so in" rel="nofollow">inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it."