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There Is No Spoon

Do not try to bend the spoon. That is impossible.

Spoon boyThe Matrix's core teaching
First: The Matrix
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The child's lesson to Neo in The Matrix distills the film's entire philosophical premise into a single image: reality is a construct, and the rules that govern it are only binding if you believe they are. The spoon does not exist. The constraint does not exist. Only the mind that accepts the constraint is real.

Appears In4
The Matrix

The Matrix

1999

The Matrix Reloaded

The Matrix Reloaded

2003

The Matrix Revolutions

The Matrix Revolutions

2003

The Matrix Resurrections

The Matrix Resurrections

2021

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