Foucault's "Discipline and Punish" vs. "The Matrix"

In "The Matrix" Neo is pulled out of the simulated or dream world of the matrix into the real world of the rebellion against the agents or the machines that have taken over the planet. He has a choice to live in the dream world of the humans that is completely unaware of everything because they are blinded by the truth. The humans are watched completely by the agents of the world. This is very relevant to what Foucault was talking about in "Discipline and Punishment". In the essay it talks about those that are infected with this disease or plague are watched like the humans in "The Matrix". For example in the trailer agent Smith says, "Human beings are a disease. You are a cancer of this planet and we are the cure" (The Matrix). When they say they are "the cure" they really are what Foucault talked about as the syndics, intendants, or guards who survey the area all the time and make sure that those that are quarantined do not leave their houses. For example, "Each street is placed under the authority of a syndic who keeps it under surveillance; if he leaves the street, he will be condemned to death. On the appointed day, everyone is ordered to stay indoors: it is forbidden to leave on pain of death" (Rivkin 551). In the matrix these agents jobs are supposed to prevent people from leaving the Matrix, just like it’s the guards jobs in “Discipline and Punishment” to have those infected to not leave their houses. In Wikipedia they talked about the agents positions and abilities, “He is warned of the presence of Agents, fast and powerful sentient computer programs with the ability to take over the virtual body of anyone still directly connected to the Matrix, whose purpose is to seek out and eliminate any threats to the simulation” (Wikipedia.com).The houses that the humans are forbidden to leave represent the world or the matrix that is used to block the people from learning the truth about what is going on and the ability to leave the house. For example in the trailer Morpheus says, "The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth" (The Matrix). With the gain of the truth in the real world Neo also learns that the technology of his body as a human was only partially being used. In this new state he discovers that the body has new knowledge and that he has the ability to conquer the physical inabilities he experienced as a human. For example, "there may be a 'knowledge' of the body that is not exactly the science of its functioning, and a mastery of its forces that is more than the ability to conquer them: this knowledge and this mastery constitute what might be called the political technology of the body" (Rivkin 549). In Wikipedia they talk about the abilities he acquires as, “Within the Matrix, they are able to use their understanding of its nature to bend the laws of physics within the simulation, giving them superhuman abilities” (wikipedia.com). In the trailer it shows them running from building to building and fighting in very precise slow moving actions.