eXistenZ - Matrix Meaningful questions

Both movies “ The Matrix “, and “ eXistenZ ” are films that question our sense of reality. Both made roughly around the same time, yet one far more popular then the other, I think that both directors did a fantastic job, in their attempt to translate such complicated themes and concepts. One thing these films both have in common, “what it means to be seduced or deceived by artificial versions of reality.” –Cynthia Freeland (PATM) Pg. 213 In retrospect the idea of being seduced or deceived is seen in a negative light, they both explore the “bad” and “good” of an artificial reality. In “The Matrix” it can be said that the differences between both the real and fake world or obvious, once you’ve been released, but those still in the matrix, which have never been unplugged will never know the difference/truth. In “eXistenZ” you can never really tell what’s real, and what’s fake, sort of keeping the viewers and the characters in limbo. By the end of “The Matrix” the characters and the viewers both know the difference between reality, and the matrix. Where at the end of “ eXistenZ” the last line is “ are we still in the game? “
The question is which movie questions the nature of reality in a more meaningful way. Its not a question of which movie was better, or which had better special effects and explosions, because if that were the case the matrix would win hands down. But from a philosophical standpoint both movies can almost bee seen as identical. Personally if I had to choose which presented a more meaningful question I would have to choose the matrix
The matrix presented the false hood of humans being enslaved and obvious. To referrer to “ Allegory of the cave” the fact that humans are blissfully unaware, and when faced with the truth, cannot cope. Where eXistenZ explores the opposite idea of that, where people are the ones putting themselves in this false reality. The reason think the matrix question is more meaningful is because if you think about how far the human race has come, we are still so ignorant. The matrix for me questions reality as a whole. How from waking up to going to work, living and dying is all for nothing, as your real body lies in a tube of pink goo working as a battery for the machines. The matrix was something made to dispose the human race, where in eXistenZ the false reality is a game, created by people. I feel that the matrix is only more meaningful because of its “liberatory” aspect, the idea of freeing the world, not just physically from the machines, but mentally from themselves.
After viewing both films and reading Cynthia Freelands essay, to me the movies explore similar ideas but in a different way completely. To me the matrix is a more communal. The falseness of reality is widespread and almost impossible to liberate from. Where in eXistenZ the falseness is more personal, even though you are plugged in with others the experience is far more personal. The matrix being a external conflict of reality, where your body is physically somewhere else you are helpless to release yourself without help of others, though in eXistenZ your body is also somewhere else, at one point your conscience put yourself in that game, then from there who knows, which makes it an internal conflict. Where in the matrix you remain unaware from birth, once in the game you can never be sure when you’re back in the real world.