Exploring The Matrix’s Alice In Wonderland Motifs & Their Significance
The Matrix is one of those sci-fi movies that changed the history of filmmaking. There had already been several movies that explored the ideas of parallel worlds and alternate realities, but arguably never something that had made the audience question every single aspect of their reality, and what it truly means to be human. Even now, The Matrix permeates modern culture in day to day life. When unusual things are seen in society that seem too coincidental or to strange, people often still call it «a glitch in the Matrix.»
From the outset of the original trilogy, there were many references to Lewis Carroll's famous children’s story Alice in Wonderland. Anyone who has read the book will know that it is a surreal and uncanny experience, where Alice is made to second guess the way the world works, and everything that she thought she knew up until that moment. In the original Matrix films, Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) even refers to Alice in Wonderland when he gives Neo (Keanu Reeves) the choice between the red and blue pills: «If you take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.» These Alice in Wonderland comparisons were strewn throughout the films, and the newest release, The Matrix: Resurrection, is certainly no exception.
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The first motif that has been spotted by eagle-eyed fans when watching the latest installment into this film franchise is the use of animals. Throughout Alice in Wonderland, the reader can find a range of animals, from real-world creatures, to a plethora of new and never seen before creatures. There are playing cards belonging to the Queen of Hearts who walk and talk, and the glasses and spades that fly and cry
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