 | | © 1999 - Warner Brothers | In the movie The Matrix, Keanu Reeves plays a character named Thomas A. Anderson, who goes by the hacker alias Neo. His world starts unraveling when he meets a woman named Trinity, played by Carrie-Anne Moss. She informs him that she knows what he is searching for because she once searched for the same thing and had since found it...  | | © 1999 - Warner Brothers | "There’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there. Like a splinter in your mind – driving you mad.” Perhaps you have felt the same thing. It’s as if we all know that there is something more to life than is immediately evident to our five senses.  | | © 1999 - Warner Brothers | Morpheus goes on to reveal that Neo’s whole world has been a lie – part of something called the Matrix. It is an artificial reality generated by a network of artificial intelligence-driven machines. “You are a slave Neo,” Morpheus informs him, “like everyone else you were born into bondage – born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch - a prison for your mind.” Although what he is being told sounds surreal, it strikes an accord with something deep down inside him. He struggles to accept it and yet grapples with the idea of denying it too. He is then informed that he must see the matrix for himself to really understand it. Yet, to see it he must be willing to leave behind the world as he has known it and - “there is no turning back” Morpheus adds. He must decide either to take a blue pill and ignore the truth unfolding before him and return to the life he formerly knew or take a red one and dive into truth with his entire being. 
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