The Matrix largely interprets Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: Imagine a cave. Inside are people who were born and have spent their entire lives there, chained into a fixed position, only able to see the wall in front of them. As far as they know, this is the entire world., so then, how do we know what reality really is?

When Morpheus bring Neo out of his “cave” of the dredge of late-20th-century existence, he does so as Plato’s Analogy of the Sun, a metaphor for the nature of reality and concerning knowledge, and the eyes of the fearful few forced out of their cave need some time to adjust to the new light.
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