Neo opens his eyes, and the camera pans out to reveal him against an immaculate white background. He looks around, and sees Morpheus.
MORPHEUS: This is the construct. It's our loading program. We can load anything, from clothing, to equipment, weapons, training simulations. Anything we need.
NEO: Right now, we're inside a computer program?
MORPHEUS: Is it really so hard to believe? Your clothes are different, the plugs in your arms and head are gone, your hair has changed. Your appearance now is what we call 'residual self-image'. It is the mental projection of your digital self.
Neo touches one of the two Chesterfield-style chairs the two now stand by. There is a 50s-style television set facing them.
NEO: This... this isn't real?
MORPHEUS: What is 'real'? How do you define 'real'? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. This is the world that you know.
Morpheus picks up a remote and turns the television set on. It shows the world Neo remembers
MORPHEUS: The world as it was at the end of the twentieth century. It exists now only as part of a neural-interactive simulation... that we call the matrix.
He switches the television off and reclines in his chair.
MORPHEUS: You've been living in a dream world, Neo. This is the world as it exists today.
He switches the television on, and it shows a nightmarish, barren dystopia. The camera zooms all the way into the screen, then zooms back out again, and we see that Morpheus and Neo are now in the same dystopia.
MORPHEUS: Welcome to the desert of the real.
MORPHEUS: This is the construct. It's our loading program. We can load anything, from clothing, to equipment, weapons, training simulations. Anything we need.
NEO: Right now, we're inside a computer program?
MORPHEUS: Is it really so hard to believe? Your clothes are different, the plugs in your arms and head are gone, your hair has changed. Your appearance now is what we call 'residual self-image'. It is the mental projection of your digital self.
Neo touches one of the two Chesterfield-style chairs the two now stand by. There is a 50s-style television set facing them.
NEO: This... this isn't real?
MORPHEUS: What is 'real'? How do you define 'real'? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. This is the world that you know.
Morpheus picks up a remote and turns the television set on. It shows the world Neo remembers
MORPHEUS: The world as it was at the end of the twentieth century. It exists now only as part of a neural-interactive simulation... that we call the matrix.
He switches the television off and reclines in his chair.
MORPHEUS: You've been living in a dream world, Neo. This is the world as it exists today.
He switches the television on, and it shows a nightmarish, barren dystopia. The camera zooms all the way into the screen, then zooms back out again, and we see that Morpheus and Neo are now in the same dystopia.
MORPHEUS: Welcome to the desert of the real.
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