10 Movie Titles With Double Meanings Everyone Missed
2. The Matrix
The Matrix was a seminal sci fi movie but it rarely gets as much credit as it should for its intelligence. Yes, the humans as batteries plot didn’t particularly hold the movie together as it ought to, but then it was never really supposed to.
The Wachowski’s original script didn’t have them as batteries, seeing as humans would be a horrendously inefficient source of power, but instead a neural network of human brains, all acting as super processors for their overlords. However, this was deemed too complicated by studio heads, and thus was taken out.
Despite change though, the double meaning of the title still works. The typical defin of a matrix is sequences of numbers, much like we see reoccurring throughout the film, and the given name of the movie’s false reality.
The second meaning though? Matrix is actually not the modern, jargonistic word it seems; it dates back to an archaic usage, when it was meant to describe the womb.
When Morpheus tells Neo the Matrix is all around him, he means it literally; Neo’s body is in the ‘womb’ being used as a battery. He’s in both the manufactured matrix and a real matrix at the same time.