@article{
editor = "Jovanov, Rastko",
author = "Milidrag, Predrag",
year = "2013",
abstract = "In this article I will try to interpret changes in Neo, the main
character in The Matrix Trilogy, against the background of the ideas of Plato
and Descartes, as well as Hegel’s from his Philosophy of History and The
Phenomenology of Spirit. Although “philosophical” The Matrix Trilogy is
not long-winded and boring film: instead of talking endlessly, the characters
are working ceaselessly, and that work is changing them. Contrary to widespread
opinion, this interpretation does not find the presence of Descartes’
hyperbolic doubt in the first part of trilogy, but first film sees as a pure Platonism.
Nevertheless, there are the Cartesian motifs (e.g. dualism, freeing
mind from preconceived opinions, acquiring different habits of belief). The
result of the first film is the position of Hegelian unhappy consciousness.
This is just a preparation for the key moment of whole Trilogy that is the
dialogue between Neo and Architect. Neo’s decision to chose to save Trinity
is interpreted in Hegel’s terms of the infinite right of the subject to satisfy
himself in his activity and work; because of that, this, sixth Neo is new. After
showing the differences in the objectives of Neo and Agent Smith, and transformations
of the objectives of humans, the third part of the article analyzes
the very end of the Matrix Revolutions, using Marx’s ideas, with some references
to Plato and Nietzsche.",
journal = "Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society",
title = "Platonism, Cartesianism and Hegel's Thought in The Matrix Trilogy, Platonizam, kartezijanizam i Hegelova misao u trilogiji Matriks",
pages = "268-282",
doi = "10.2298/FID1304268M"
}