How & Why The First Matrix Was Created
Discovering and understanding what the Matrix is was the starting point of The Matrix franchise; here's how and why the simulation was created. Released in 1999, The Matrix quickly became an instant classic not only for its groundbreaking special effects but also for its thought-provoking story. Behind the «bullet time» and «dodge this» moments was a complex sci-fi story that borrowed from different philosophical currents to pose the question of what it means for something to be real.
The scene in which Morpheus explains to Neo what the Matrix is very much sums up the film's whole premise. Neo and all those enslaved in the Matrix had spent their entire lives taking their reality for granted, all because they could feel it, smell it, and touch it. However, in a Cartesian twist, The Matrix reveals that none of it was real and that it was only his own awareness that Neo could rely on. The shock of Keanu Reeves' character upon being awakened shows just how sordid and how advanced the Matrix mind-prison was.
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The events of The Matrix Revolutions end with the Matrix beginning its seventh iteration, and the first attempt to create a prison for the mind was quite different from the one Neo, Trinity and Morpheus knew. While it is not possible to say for sure when the first Matrix was created, a solid estimate would be around 2199 — the year Morpheus mistakenly believes he is in. Following the events of the Machine War, a conflict between humans and machines caused after humanity ordered the destruction of A.I.-powered robots, the remaining military forces of the world decided on one last, desperate measure against the machines: scorch the sky. Without
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