Conclusion

The Matrix (1999)

Pulling the structure from Plato's Allegory of the Cave and melding it with other philosophical questions and religious iconography, the Wachowskis achieved a film that further expands on those ideas and puts them into a relevant context that will both entertain and cause their audiences to process philosophical ideologies and theories in an accessible medium and story.

“If you watch all of them, they’re seamless artist work. This is one of the very few movies that’s tried to make this sweeping statement about these grand dimensions of human existence that have been touched up by the great traditions of two or three thousand years." - Ken Wilber (author/theorist quoted in The Matrix: Revisited, 2009)