Old name.....plato's cave
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In short: Matrix implies where one shapes within, while Plato's Cave implies where one confines self within, while permitting others to shape from outside.
a) The cave represents ones mind shaped by the suggested information from others into becoming a prison for ones imagination. One can always step out of suggested fiction into perceivable reality...if one is strong enough to choose not being a willing slave to another.
b) The Matrix story represents reality dressed in fiction with an additional deception...neo (new). Matrix simply implies mother (nature) and matter (being) divided from one another within motion, which represents the "trinity hack" which the movie uses to sell the awakening process as something new (neo)...the viewers buying into this are selling themselves into a confinement aka themselves as intelligent machines into a simulated reality.
Furthermore...Morpheus (the maker of shapes) represents each awakened being; while the copies of Agent Smith represent the ignorance of the masses fighting something they believe to be new (neo). The copies (suggestion) try to destroy the original (perception); because it looks different from them...like a new threat.
Watching the Matrix (nature) from the perspective of Morpheus (being) shows Agent Smith (slaves) chasing an imaginary Neo (shadow).
Notice that your use of "old" shapes the existence of "new" within your mind...that's Neo chased by endless hordes of old lies others are holding onto. You feel like a bulletproof superman because you don't believe their old lies, and you react so much quicker thanks to not holding onto lies.
You are tricked to fight endlessly reproduced slaves about what is vs isn't real, yet while fighting...both you (neo) and the slaves (agent smith) are ignoring the same old nature (matrix).