Released in 1999, the Wachowski brothers' The Matrix captured the imagination of movie fans around the world with its unique combination of a virtual reality setting and explosive action. The title refers to a complex computer simulation created by an evil artificial intelligence. Within, everything seems normal, and almost everyone carries on with the typical activities of everyday life. Only a few rebels know it isn't real and that its purpose is to keep people's minds occupied while their bodies are being grown to serve as a source of energy. Morpheus, the leader of the freedom fighters, believes that Thomas Anderson, a hacker who goes by the handle Neo, is The One, the special individual possessing the ability to break the domination of the machine and thus to liberate humanity from captivity in a prison it doesn't even know exists.