During Flora’s Friday Films, we watched The Mattrix, a movie about machines taking planet Earth over and using humans as power sources, while placing them in an alternate reality. A computer hacker named Neo becomes aware of this fact when he encounters a group of humans who have been fighting the computers, and their control over humans. By becoming aware of the true nature of the world that he lived in and believing in that fact, he and the other rebels can access supernatural abilities otherwise unknown to them. As I watched the matrix, some interesting thoughts on reality came to mind. Is reality as absolute as we really think? Or is it more subjective? Neo and his friends would be considered insane by the other humans , but their assessment of the world would be correct. On the other hand, the computers, could have presented a different reality to them, and they are in fact still sedated, and being harvested on. In addition, one of the rebels betrayed the others, in exchange for a memory wipe so that he could return to the old world. By choosing a reality that he preferred, does that make the original reality the true one for that particular rebel? Or is he just choosing to live in ignorance? The matrix made me rethink my thoughts on reality- and think about the integrity of my own… just a little bit.