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This article is for the first film only. For tropes applied to the entire franchise, see The Matrix.

— Morpheus '"Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?"

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A hugely influential Cyberpunk 1999 action film by The Wachowskis about a virtual world inside a massive computer system. If you haven't seen it yet, you've still likely seen its influence.

Thomas A. Anderson is a young and dissatisfied computer programmer who lives a double life online as "Neo", a skilled hacker for hire. Feeling that there is something off about the world, Thomas pursues a enigmatic darknet phrase referring to "The Matrix" and finds himself stumbling down a rabbit hole to a terrifying truth: the Present Day world he knows is an illusion; a computer simulation of Earth designed to keep humanity passive and captive under the control of sentient machines. It turns out that humans and machines fought a war with each other over dominance ages ago, and that the machines won.

Freed from the restraints of The Matrix and taught how to exploit its systems, Neo joins a ragtag resistance movement as they search for "The One", The Chosen One prophesied to bring an end to the war between humans and machines.

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The film was followed by two sequels in 2003, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.

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