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R.S. David
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7/31/2009
Synopsis
• Thomas A. Anderson aka “Neo”
• Meeting Trinity and Morpheus
• The quest to break The Matrix
• What is the Matrix?
• (Film clip from the Matrix) “Welcome to the
real world.”
Synopsis
• Neo takes the red pill, a tracer program, that
locates and re-connects his consciousness to
his body.
• It is 2199. Intelligent machines have taken over
the world.
• Human beings are raised in farms, where their
body heat is harvested to form the energy
needed by the machines.
• Humans are kept docile by a computer program
that has trapped their consciousness in an
illusory world.
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7/31/2009
Synopsis
• Neo is chosen (The One) to lead the rebellion
against the regime of machines, and to free
humankind from enslavement.
• But he and Morpheus’ group are relentlessly
hunted down by the machines’ Agents, computer
programs that can lodge themselves in the
consciousness of humans.
• Morpheus’ mission involves penetrating and
breaking out of The Matrix -- the illusory world
created by the machines. This means smashing
the operating program that runs The Matrix –
before the intelligent machines kill them all.
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