Morpheus: I imagine, right now, you must be feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole?
Neo: You could say that.
Morpheus: I can see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up.

A smile, razor thin, curls the corner of his lips.

Morpheus: Ironically, this is not far from the truth. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Can you tell me, Neo, why are you here?
Neo: You're Morpheus, you're a legend, most hackers would die to meet you.
Morpheus: Yes. Thank you. But I think we both know there’s more to it than that. Do you believe in fate, Neo?

Following this opening speech, Morpheus offers Thomas/Neo a choice: blue or red pill.

Morpheus: Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
Neo: How?

Morpheus: Hold out your hands.

In Neo's right hand, Morpheus drops a red pill.

Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no going back.

In his left, a blue pill.

Morpheus: You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe.

The pills in his open hands are reflected in the glasses.

Morpheus: You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Neo feels the smooth skin of the capsules, with the moisture growing in his palms.

Morpheus: Remember that all I am offering is the truth. Nothing more.

Neo opens his mouth and swallows the red pill.

Morpheus: Follow me…………….

Morpheus explains that the year is not 1999, it is in fact closer to two centuries later, and civilization has been destroyed.

Neo: Morpheus, what's happiness to me? What is this place?
Morpheus: More important than what, is when?
Neo: When?
Morpheus: You believe the year is 1999 when in fact it is much closer to 2197. I can't say for certain what year it is because we honestly do not know.

As a result of the discovery of Artificial Intelligence (AI) -- a singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines -- somewhere around the start of the 21st Century, there was a conflict between man and machine – between the creation and the creator - the machine triumphed. AI discovered a means not only to destroy civilization and inherit the Earth but to develop for itself cybernetic semi-organic bodies using humans as its primary energy source. (Humans are bred and raised into incubators, and fed intravenously with the liquefied remains of the dead.) To this end humanity was enslaved en mass induced into a "dream-state" - "they built a prison out of the past, wired it to our brains and turned us into slaves."

Morpheus: What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.

A "neutral-interactive simulation" – the Matrix – enables a dark predatory force to enslave humanity. Within the Matrix however there exist certain possibilities for escape. Morpheus and his cyber-terrorist crew are located on the "outside" of the computer-simulated fantasy grid and have liberated their bodies from the energy farms. As a result they are able to enter the Matrix and function therein with superhuman potential. (For example knowledge/information/training can be downloaded directly into their consciousness and in also they have an established "contact-line" (the telephone) between the two dimensions providing them with a constant monitoring sense). Despite their capacities to navigate the Matrix, however, the "resistance" are at a disadvantage when confronting the concentrated AI projections sent into the Matrix to maintain the reality-program. These agents hunt down and eradicate counter-agents/rebels who potentially disrupt the structure.

In the "Matrix" the enemy is everywhere and nowhere. As AI is the creation of humanity, therefore in consequence, the enemy is ourselves. At the same time, the inorganic machine entities have evolved into a "species" themselves – sentient programs that can commandeer any software hardwired into the mainframe. Within the "real-time" Matrix the enemy is diffused/decentralized/elusive and effectively extends to humanity itself. Those who are not ready to be awakened are mass-produced automatons and have become at one with the machine.

The Deleuzo-Guattarian construction A Thousand Plateaus [1] associates the "plane of consistency" with the time of "aion" and the unextended intensive "spatium." The plane of consistency they state is intersected continuously by lines of infinite variation, which resemble series of singular points. These lines of continuous variation are abstract lines of virtual possibilities that are actualized in various machinic arrangements. Each machinic arrangement is a collection of heterogeneous terms held together in a topological relation of "proximity"/"vicinity" and it is the abstract line that traverses the elements and allows them to function together. The virtual, abstract line of continuous variation is like Nietzsche's "Will to Power" – a self-differentiating difference that establishes relations of proximity/difference between terms.

The plane of consistency is an elaboration of a Nietzschean physics, which treats the cosmos as the becoming of a multiplicity of forces – differentiated in terms of "dynamic quanta." It is the virtual dimension of difference and the will to power that cannot be represented with a physical model of actual/manifest forces, even though this virtual dimension is a dimension of forces. Central to Deleuzo-guattarian theories therefore is an extended Nietzschean mediation on the problematic nature of "physis" both as the Becoming of a multiplicity of forces and as the virtual domain of difference and the Will to Power/Eternal Return.

The order of time (as "Chronos") is continuously subverted throughout The Matrix. In The Matrix, the characters Neo/Morpheus/Trinity reject authenticity in part because they have no faith in the order of time, the order of progress through accumulation. Opposed to the defined self with its immortal soul, these characters appear as "haecceities." They are not located in the dimension of time as an arrow. Alternatively, they exist as becomings, as "bodies without organs", they do not move through time and space, they are essentially indivisible from the time and space in which they exist, and vice versa.

The haecceity, as a becoming, is an aspect of the infinite, of the univocity of Being. [2] The becoming is always "between" or "among": indistinguishable, and therefore in a sense, an imperceptible communing with the infinite of which one is an aspect.