Finding Spectacle, Power and Memory in the Film ‘The Matrix’

‘The Matrix’ is a film with a plot that heavily focuses on choice, a type of power.  Power is represented through this film as a differing consequence of a choice that can be made (blue pill or red pill) and therefore a reflection of what we do everyday, but having a much stronger impact.  The audience feel even more empowered when the character Neo makes a choice and grows stronger because of it, overcoming great conflict.  This is classically the power of good triumphing over evil.

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The Spectacle of this film is its concept of virtual reality and what’s considered a normal life.  It also focuses on the feeling that not all is what it seems and (moving back to power) breaking free from that prison of ‘normaility’.

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