The Matrix questions what reality is and whether the world we live in is actually real. While watching The Matrix, I learned that it's about a man named Neo who discovers that the world he thought was real is actually a program called the Matrix, and it's a program that allows machines to use humans as a source of energy. Neo and the other humans do not know this, and Neo only learns the truth about the matrix once he is unplugged. Once Neo was unplugged, he became able to see the real world that was previously hidden from him. As Morpheus says: “The Matrix is ​​the world that has been put before your eyes to blind you from the truth.” The Matrix explores ideas from Plato's theory of forms, Descartes' Cogito ego sum, and Berkley's idealism. Plato's theory of forms is the idea that there are perfect forms for everything and that there are copies of that form. Plato also believes that our world is made up of copies that we are only able to see and that these copies are connected to perfect forms (Stickney, 2011). When Neo disconnected from the machine-created reality, he was then able to return to the Matrix as an identical copy of himself, and the copy was connected to the real Neo since he can be killed in the Matrix. In The Matrix, people live in a world controlled by machines and are unaware that the world they live in is not real. In the Allegory of the Cave, the prisoners are chained to the cave like the characters from The Matrix, and when one of the prisoners was freed like Neo, the prisoners rejected the new knowledge. As Morpheus says in the film "Most people are not ready to wake up and will fight for the Matrix", like the machines that opposed the unplugging of humans. Plato would think the same way as Matrix ...... middle of paper ...... understood the idea until it was perceived. In my opinion, the ideas expressed in this film made me question whether the reality I live in this world is actually real or fake, like the matrix world in the film. I also thought that The Matrix helped me understand what it really means to seek truth or knowledge, and it also made me wonder what the future holds if artificial intelligence continues to develop . Since in the film Neo seeks the truth and discovers that artificial intelligence has won the war against humans, allowing them to have total control. The film makes me wonder if what is actually real in our world, since perhaps they are just mere copies of the real form that we cannot see as Plato says. Overall, The Matrix helped me understand the ideas of these philosophers and how they related to the film as well as our world..