THE MATRIX (1999)
The Matrix is a movie that makes us question our reality. Due to the humans and AI having a fall out in the early 21st century, humans are plugged into The Matrix as a source of electricity and heat energy for the machines. There is a group of people in the real world who are free from the Matrix - The Resistance. 'The Resistance' discovered that the world that the humans were living in does not exist. The leader of the group - Morpheus believes a computer nerd - Neo is "The One", a savior of the human race hence they recruited him. The Agents - computer programs that are the gatekeepers of the Matrix whose job is to kill intruders.
The Matrix wants us to imagine the terrifying possibility of living in a false world where we're being controlled by machines and juxtaposes this with a world where people are free, real, authentic. Unfortunately, life outside the Matrix isn't glamorous or even fun, and humans have all the same problems they did before - blind faith, denial, anger, love, lust, bitterness, and greed. It isn't better to be controlled by an algorithm, but only that we shouldn't so readily fool ourselves into thinking that we can escape it into some utopia.
While we're meant to look down on those who still live in the Matrix, never questioning it, and blissfully ignorant of their servitude, we might also consider that their emotional experiences are real ones. They seem happy to live in the world made for them. If that freaks you out, it might be helpful to note that we're well on our way to a machine-made world, even without sentient robots. We already choose to ignore the writing on the wall as global tech companies like Facebook freely admit to controlling our behavior via social media. We let technology companies cross lines all the time and barely raise a fuss while we continue to scroll through our feeds.