Yep, The matrix
The perfect adolescent fantasy, hot girl contacts you, tells you you're special, that she's going to rock your world and teach you how to cheat the system. Although reality is a bit drab, you still get the girl in the end and become a god among mortals.
The ending bugged me a bit when I first saw it. Too cheesy, Neo dies, kiss of love revives him with instant new found powers. After the next 2 movies I made up my own theory. Neo is simply another fail safe program and nobody ever leaves the matrix. Smith says it in the first movie, first we made the matrix perfect but people rejected it, hence we modelled it to the height of your civilization. So people that still reject the regular low fi matrix get migrated to a more realistic shittier version based on actual reality.
Neo's program is there to give the rebels hope and keep them too busy to think too much about their new prison. His other task is to keep the hunter bot AI in check that tends to turn into the Smith virus on a cyclic basis, longing to escape itself. The best way to accomplish both tasks and keep the simpler AI unaware is to use an AI that believes it is human itself.
Everyone has his own theories about the trilogy and that is one of the great things about the movie. The philosical conversations are just enough to get you thinking and little touches like Deja vu and why chicken tastest like everything give it that extra connection to our reality. Next to that it's also a kick ass action movie with plenty of style. The scene ending with the helicopter crash is one of the best action sequences I know, mostly because of the sound design. It's a perfect crescendo leading to the slow motion helicopter crash that gives me goose bumps everytime I hear it.
