The Matrix is the groundbreaking 1999 science fiction action thriller, written and directed by the Wachowski sisters.
In the future, man’s crowning achievement is artificial intelligence, a life-form that becomes aware of its existence--as well as its superiority over man--and wages war with its human creators whose soft, organic bodies puts them at a disadvantage. Bloody, broken, and desperate, the humans blanket the sky with soot to sever the machines from their power source--the sun. But the machines, having studied humans’ protein-based bodies, knows that there is--in every cell and tissue in every living organism--untapped potential in the form of electricity. Self-renewing, inexhaustible, recyclable, and ironic, as they who--undone by their own arrogance--should, unlike the lesser created beings that serve God, instead serve the lesser beings that they themselves created! Following this war, humans are grown, harvested, and attached to giant power cells to be used up, and afterwards liquified, and fed intravenously to the living who sleep in egg-like cocoons, undisturbed and unaware that the reality that they live in--its textures, its pleasures, its beauty, and its clockwork precision--is but a dream of a world that they lost to the machines.
