20 Things You Somehow Missed In The Matrix
7. Alice In Wonderland
As well as the required reading for the movie, there was also another heavy literal influence. Specifically, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, which is referenced through the movie and informs a number of the main thematic points.
Neo "follows the white rabbit" in the form of Dujour's tattoo, and Morpheus himself asks him if he feels like the book's titular character as he's "tumbling down the rabbit hole". Even the choice between the red pill and the blue pill is evocative of the Caterpillar's "one will make you bigger and one will make you smaller" choice from the book.