Tron v/s The Matrix

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The technology as we know is changing by hour and everyone has to keep up with the technology. Movies are also no different even they have to be technologically advanced. This actually affects the quality of the movies. Simulations are now more seen in films. You can see a vast difference in the simulations in an old movie and a recent one. Tron could be a perfect example how the first Tron differs so much then the Tron Legacy. Tron and The Matrix are both simulation based movies but both have a different take to the simulation bit.

Tron and Matrix both are movies based on simulations run by computer programs. In both the movies the protagonist travels from the real world to the virtual world simulated by the computer.

In The Matrix the simulation used is brain computer interface. In this the protagonist goes into the simulation world by directly connecting the brain to the computer and the simulation runs as a computer program.

In Tron the simulation is also based on somewhat same lines. In fact it combines two types of simulation emigration and virtual people simulation. In this movie the protagonist migrates in a sense to the simulation world and in that simulation world there are other people who only exists virtually in the simulation, which do not have any existence in the real world.

In both the movie at first the protagonist doesn’t know where he is and after sometime realizes that he is in the virtual world. They clearly know that they are in the virtual world and can clearly distinguish between real and virtual.

In The Matrix only the mind travels and whatever happens in the simulation has an effect on the body outside the simulation. Whereas in Tron not only the mind but also the body travels to the virtual world and then has to find a way out of the simulation.

Comparing both the movies, the movie which compels me more in terms of its cyberspace usage is The Matrix, how the people goes into the cyberspace by connecting their brains to the computer and are full aware that they are inside cyberspace and it is not real. How the main protagonist comes to know that first he was in a simulation then came to real world and then went again to the virtual world now being fully aware.