Human intelligence can be a double-edged sword in that it can be used to achieve a common good, but it can also be misdirected and end up causing a great deal of harm. Being intelligent is not the same as being wise, because no matter how much knowledge we may have, the question lies in how much we are doing to apply that intelligence in a practical way in our lives. Sometimes our emotions or feelings from past experiences end up conditioning our decisions, and perhaps that is why we all react in different ways to a given situation.

The example you mention regarding the movie "Matrix" perfectly highlights that degree of intelligence to which we could reach, and thus free ourselves from certain patterns that seem to lock us in a circle that so far you think is all that can be done. I believe that the magnitude of human intelligence is as wide as it is powerful, but many of us are sometimes satisfied with just walking around its edges without going deeper into it.