Discuss the significance and relevance of Plato’s account of mimesis and the authenticity of the copy in respect of one of the following films: The Matrix. In your answer pay close attention to both the film’s form and its content. The Wachowski brother’s ‘The Matrix’ presents a world of illusion, where nothing is as it seems. A world created by computers, run by artificial intelligence. It draws strongly on Platonic theory by …showed first 75 words of 1273 total…

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