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Abstract

This article analyzes a 1999 film The Matrix, directed by Larry and Andy

Wachowski, in the frame of Plato’s allegory of the cave. In Plato’s allegory of

the cave, this article particularly focuses on the part where the prisoner goes

back to the cave after being released from his chains, in order to let other

prisoners know the truth. Why is the truth important to know and why should

the truth be shared? Why does Neo, the protagonist in The Matrix, have to

liberate others? While trying to answer to the questions, this article examines

the meaning of liberation and truth, through the allegorical connection between

the film and Plato’s allegory of the cave. In order to analyze both the film and

the allegory of the cave, this article delves into Heidegger’s concept of

authenticity.

This article also argues that differentiating hyperreality from reality is not

as simple as the film’s binarism between the matrix and reality represented by

a levitating ship called Nebuchadnezzar. As Heidegger observes that there is

also fire (the truth) in the cave (a false reality), this article includes the matrix

in the realm of reality, rather than defining the matrix as opposing to reality.

Plato, Allegory of the Cave, The Matrix, authenticity, virtual reality, simulacra

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