MATRIX AS A POPULAR PRODUCT

In our time, we use the term ‘popular’. It means that basically known by amount of people. Immediate products are the product of the popular culture that we have and we are in without realizing. Unlike popular culture, there is a high culture, which is defined, social, educated and thoughtful. The product of popular culture is not thoughtful and original. It is not individual expression and so on. Popular culture has commercial function. Originality is risky because it has to be understood easily to be sold to the mass. There is no worry about if popular culture should give message to people or not. It doesn’t care this it just entertains people. Hollywood cinema, pop music, fictions, sit-coms and many others can be counted as product of popular culture.
Matrix is one of the popular culture’s products. To sum up in the film, Keanu Reeves plays Tom Anderson, a computer programmer by day, and a computer hacker by night (his nickname is Neo). Towards the opening of the film,...