"Matrix is everywhere.

It is all around us.

Even now, in this very room.

It is what you see when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television.

You feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes.

It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth." This is the explanation Morpheus gives to Neo, and from this, one of the most exhilarating concepts ever brought to the big screen unfolds, thanks to the two Wachowski sisters who literally molded a new iconographic look for the cyber-punk genre to be returned to the big screen.

A concept that insinuates itself between the sphere of the self and the real plane, instilling in the viewer an agonizing doubt: the mystification of Reality.

A theme dear to authors like Philip K. Dick and, in a completely different but specular way, to Lewis Carroll.

The narrative wonder of the film is that behind this pompous theoretical concept of Non-Reality lies a much more pragmatic, insidious plan, engineered by sentient machines to imprison human consciousness in order to exploit their bodies as common batteries to produce electricity.

Thomas Anderson is a programmer for a large software company; in his spare time, he is also a hacker, his handle is Neo.

One evening, a message appears on his computer: "Wake up Neo, the Matrix has you."

Thus begins contact with a mysterious organization led by Morpheus, a former hacker.

Before Neo can speak with Morpheus, he is captured by the Agents, a sort of political police with unsettling powers, with Agent Smith, who seems to particularly target Neo, at the head of this unit.

Having finally made contact with Morpheus, Neo chooses the truth; he wants to know.

He will awaken from his artificial paradise to discover the terrible truth: machines have seized control of Earth and use humans to produce electricity after the sun was obscured by the war to fight them.

Humans are cultivated in hundreds of thousands of pods, in a state of induced sleep, and while their minds are imprisoned in the Matrix, their bodies retain all vital functions.

Agent Smith, as well as all the Agents, are sentient programs used to oversee the integrity of the Matrix, after Morpheus and his team discovered how to travel from the real dimension to the Matrix without being trapped.

Neo learns that there is a prophecy from an Oracle, to whom Morpheus and the others in the Resistance are devoted, which states that there is The One who will break the yoke of the Matrix and free the human race from slavery.

Morpheus is convinced that Neo is The One and that his arrival could be decisive for the final victory.

It has been called a cyberpunk fable where every element generates astonishment: the special effects, the combat scenes featuring every type of Martial Art, the hyperbolic gunfights.

Everything in this film serves the screenplay; nothing is redundant, nothing is placed randomly.

The fact that behind such a meticulously crafted film there is also a theoretical framework that is at least suggestive in science fiction terms is pure added value.

"What is reality?" Morpheus asks Neo, his words are profoundly deep and invite reflection: "What is 'real'? Give me a definition of 'real'. If you're talking about what you can smell, touch, and see, that 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by the brain. This is the world that you know. The world as it was at the end of the 20th century. And which now exists only as part of an interactive neuro-simulation that we call the Matrix."