Film The MatrixIn 2002, Brent Staples spoke with Jean Baudrillard about using his philosophy in The Matrix (1999), a film written and directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski. Staples wrote, "He [Baudrillard] noted that the film's 'borrowings' from his work "stemmed chiefly from misunderstandings" and suggested that no film could ever do justice to the themes of this book." In this article I will argue that the Wachowski brothers did not want to “do justice to the themes of this book”; they wanted to adapt Baudrillard's theories on the confusion between real and unreal and on the possible extermination of the real, into a story that offers hope to human beings who want to escape the suffocation of the "hyperreal". The term “hyperreal” was first coined by Baudrillard in his book Simulacra and Simulations (1983); it is the product of distortions of reality through endless simulations in radio, newspapers, television and film. In the Matrix, Morpheus offers Neo a further opportunity to accept the "hyperreal" in the form of a blue pill that hints at a world of fantasy, a world that has imprisoned the real: this world is known as the matrix. Many people, like Neo, may ask "what is the matrix?" Whether they are ready or not, Morpheus will tell them, "The Matrix is ​​the world that has been put before your eyes to keep you from seeing the truth." The truth “that you are a slave”, “like everyone else you were born into slavery, in a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch; a prison for your mind.” This prison is built not necessarily to keep you from being free, but to distance you from reality. The simulations of reality in the prison are so accurate that they fool thousands of people in the Matrix. However, there... in the center of the card... is the matrix. Neo speaks of a simulation that produces redundancy, of a simulation that fears change and evolution, and finally of a system that does not allow any progression of human thought. Neo and his band of revolutionaries are now determined to awaken as many people as possible from this banal and false existence. An existence that produced the stagnation the Wachowskis believe humans were born into. There is meaning to be found in life, and for the renegades of the Matrix, meaning is reality. The Wachowskis and those who have freed themselves from the programmed world see perpetual simulations and the machines that are responsible for them as enemies. The enemies of reality are responsible for the traditional cultural suffocation of reality, progress, inspiration, dreams and individuality. The Matrix and its creators believe that no amount of this suppression is acceptable.