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Films based on the allegory of the cave by Plato. In the allegory, Plato describes people who have spent their lives chained in a cave and facing a blank wall. They watch shadows projected onto the wall by objects passing in front of a fire behind them, and they give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality but not ...
Plato's allegory of the cave by Jan Saenredam, according to Cornelis van Haarlem, 1604, Albertina, Vienna. Plato's allegory of the cave is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a, Book VII) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature".
The Matrix is an example of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. [8] The Wachowskis' approach to action scenes was influenced by anime [9] and martial arts films (particularly fight choreographers and wire fu techniques from Hong Kong action cinema); other influences include Plato's cave and 1990s Telnet hacker communities.
The films' premise resembles Plato's Allegory of the cave, René Descartes's evil demon, Kant's reflections on the Phenomenon versus the Ding an sich, Zhuangzi's "Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly", Marxist social theory and the brain in a vat thought experiment.
The Matrix Reloaded was released on VHS and DVD on October 14, 2003. [68] On the first day release, the DVD release sold over 4 million units. [69] A Blu-ray release followed on September 7, 2010. [70] The Matrix Reloaded was released as a part of The Matrix Trilogy on 4K UHD Blu-ray on October 30, 2018. [71]
There is an illustrated interpretation of Plato's allegory of the cave in the graphic novel Blankets (2003), by Craig Thompson. There is slight representation of Plato's allegory of the cave in The Tale of Despereaux (2003) by Kate DiCamillo between characters Despereaux and Roscuro.
An Urban Allegory (French: Allégorie citadine) is 2024 French short film co-written and co-directed by Alice Rohrwacher and JR based on Plato's Allegory of the cave, starring Lyna Khoudri, Naïm El Kaldaoui and Leos Carax. [1] The film had its world premiere at the 81st Venice Film Festival in the Out of Competition (Fiction) section on 1 ...
He casts new shadows for the city inhabitants, who must trust his judgment. Unlike Plato, Murdoch "is disabused of any hope of an outside" and becomes the demiurge for the cave, the only environment he knows. Of the lack of background provided in the film, Loughlin said "The origin of the city is off-stage, unknown and unknowable".