The Matrix

Author: Wachowski Brothers

What is reality? That is the essential question at the heart of the Matrix. Neo, a hacker, is given the option of living in a false reality that is comfortable and the only thing he's ever known, or going into a dark world that he has no idea about, but where he may become a god. That conflict, between the real and the artificial, between the known and the unknown, between being powerful and being a pawn in a game you don't know you're a part of makes the Matrix one of the deepest science fiction films ever made, but it's not just the complex storytelling that makes The Matrix one of the greatest science fiction films ever made, but the way it embraced computer generated imagery, and gave the world 'Bullet-time'; an effect that has come to define the early 21st century's state-of-the-art. Why it's on the list Powerful imagery and effects that changed the way films were made, and an incredibly riveting story make The Matrix into one of the most important re-tellings of Plato's The Cave ever made.