Last Friday, I watched the movie The Matrix which is a science fiction film produced in 1999. This movie was based on the early philosophical thoughts of Rene Descartes. He created a thesis on the ability to think for oneself. He felt that some experiences-especially sensory ones- did not always match reality.

The Matrix is about the main character, Neo, and his realization that he was living in a computer-generated dream world. His reality is not reality at all, but a dream world. During the film, Neo meets Morpheus who is the leader of a resistance group that is trying to combat the machines and break the matrix. Per the movie, machines put all human beings into a matrix as they are farming humans for energy.

Today, influential individuals such as Elon Musk feel as if we could be living in a matrix-like world. Some individuals feel that there is a very slim chance that we are not living in that type of world. The possibility that we are living in a matrix-like world is still being explored. Either way, the movie, The Matrix explores a controversial topic that we are living in a machine-controlled world. Overall, the movie was very interesting and fun to watch, though as I still do not completely understand it, I would recommend watching it again.