The Matrix I have chosen the Matrix as a good example of Plato's allegory of the cave . Within the movie The Matrix, Neo is searching for something, or someone but he doesn't know who or what, he just knows that there is something out there beckoning him. That something finds him in the form of Morpheos and the Matrix itself. Once found, Neo has the oppurtunity to either live in the real world free of the computer programs, or go back to his prior life and forget everything. He chooses to go deeper into the Matrix. This choice is similar to the person choosing to go out of the cave inPlato's allegory and expierence the light. Also similar toPlato's allegory is the fact that once out of the fake computer generated world, Neo and the rest of the crew of the nebuchenezer try to go back in and free others either by actually freeing htem as they did Neo, or by eliminating the computer programs that run the world. Also similar to Plato's allegory is the fact that in the Matrix the people aren't interested in being freed and don't even know that the computer programs exist, just as the people in Plato's allegory don't know that a world exists outside of the cave. < click photo to visit IMDB page on The Matrix

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