What is on the disk that Thomas Anderson/Neo sells to a complete stranger at the beginning of the movie?
BEST EXPLANATION: Another MacGufffin—one that sets up the idea of Neo being a gifted hacker and, through the warning about the “white rabbit,” reveals a world beyond the Matrix.
On a tangential note, we learn that Neo may be something of a philosopher: the book in which he stashes the disk is Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation—a philosophical treatise that explores the very nature of “reality.” Of course, the book is hollowed out…
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