In my essay I will be discussing my understanding of the way perceptions of freedom and choice are shaped in the texts I have chosen. I will be basing these questions around four different text in relation to freedom: The Matrix - Film, An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow - Poem, Final Destination - Film, The Horse I Backed - Comic Narrative. They are all related to each other in many ways. My understanding of Freedom is that its individual and different for everyone everyone has there own personal ideal of freedom.

Prescribed Text: Matrix

The first text I will explore is a film made in 1999, called `The Matrix', directed by the Wachowski brothers. They are perfectionists who wanted to make a film like no other, stepping past the boundaries of visual effects. The context of the movie is of a post-apocalyptic world, were the machines are dominant; mankind has...