Carla Villanueva

Professor Kane
English 115 mw
5 October 2016
Progression Exercise 2.1: Word-Picture
I switched pictures with my classmate, Xhellederick, and this supports my interpretation
of The Allegory of the Cave. This picture is a freeze frame from the film, The Matrix, which
depicts a future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality
called the Matrix. This freeze frame is black and white and depicts a bent spoon with Neo, the
protagonist of the film who is still learning about this different reality, as a reflection upside
down. His face is on the far left and he has a confused face because the spoon bent right in front
of him without anybody touching it, whereas in his reality, spoons cannot be bent with the mind.
There is text in this picture and it says, The truth does not bend, that is impossible. It is you that
must bend the truth. This supports Platos allegory because just because we see something and
think that it is true, does not necessarily mean that it is the truth. The truth depends on the
perceptions of the individual and even then there could be more people who claim different. We
are seeing Neo looking at the bent spoon in complete disbelief, but if this reality was the truth,
then he has been looking at the shadows on the wall created by the fire in The Allegory of the
Cave his entire life until this point. After he witnesses this new phenomenon, he begins to doubt
what is true and what a perceived truth is.