The Matrix (Trilogy) [3 Blu-ray]

The film depicts a future in which the reality that exists for most people is actually a simulation, created by intelligent machines to subjugate and pacify the human population, while the heat and electrical activity of their bodies are used by the machines as a source of energy. Upon learning of this, a hacker named Neo finds himself drawn into a rebel struggle against the machines, which also involves other people who have freed themselves from the “world of dreams” and have emerged into reality. The idea of the “Matrix” largely reproduces Plato’s myth of the cave, and according to Socrates, it is the embodied idea of solipsism. The film contains many references to cyberpunk and hacker subculture, philosophical and religious, especially Gnostic, ideas. “The Matrix” also actively uses motifs from “Alice in Wonderland” and Isaac Asimov (the story “Profession”) and Arthur C. Clarke’s novel “The City and the Stars,” Hong Kong action films and Japanese anime.