Abre los Ojos

In class we watched the film "open your eyes" which was a great movie because it makes you think outside the box. As I was watching 'abrelos ojos' I made connections with the themes in the Matrix. The ideas of both films were very similar, in the begining of the movies we absorb the normal lives of the main characters. Both movies show how the real world was actually a virtualized world where your mind controls what is happening around you. In 'abre los ojos' we see that Cesar paid for a company to make him live in this virtual world voluntary, where as in the matrix, machines take over and trap humans inside this computerized world. In class we al=so discussed the allegory of the cave which holds similar beliefs to the theme of this movie. In general this film makes us question whether everything around us is real.