The Matrix
Action / Sci-Fi (US); 1999; Rated R; 135 Minutes
Cast
Keanu Reeves: Thomas "Neo" Anderson
Laurence Fishburne: Morpheus
Carrie-Anne Moss: Trinity
Joe Pantoliano: Cypher
Hugo Weaving: Agent Smith
Produced by Bruce Berman, Dan Cracchiolo, Andrew Mason, Barrie M. Osborne, Joel Silver, Erwin Stoff, Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski
Directed and directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski
Keanu Reeves as a martial-arts master and savior of the earth? Laurence Fishburne as his mentor? The world as we know it does not even exist? Surely, you can't be serious.
Welcome to the fascinating and confusing world of "The Matrix."
In this sci-fi thriller, Reeves stars as Neo, a computer programmer by day and cyber-hacker by night.
Out of nowhere, he is contacted by a group of super hackers who tell him that his life is in danger and his only hope is to trust them. The group's leader, a quiet but confident man known as Morpheus (Fishburne) tells Neo that he is the one chosen to save the world and that the "Matrix is the wool that has pulled over your eyes - that you are a slave."
Neo is the world's only hope. In a nutshell, Morpheus explains that computers developed on their own and won a brutal war against man. So the computers made a program to put all of the slaves back in the past, which is our present day. He tells Neo that he can chose either to live now or to see what the world is truly like. Neo chooses the latter, and the trip down the rabbit hole begins as does the fight for the salvation of humanity.
But the battle must be fought out in “The Matrix”, not the real world, where computer sentinels are seemingly invincible and where the laws of physics can not only be bent, they can be tossed right out the window.
With that kind of freedom, characters can run up the sides of walls, leap incredible distances, dodge bullets, and with the help of Hong Kong stunt specialist Yuen Wo Ping, pull off some of the most impressive kung fu fight sequences ever filmed.
Slow-motion film sequences, some shot at the rate of 12,000 frames per second, allow the filmmakers to manipulate the on-screen action much like in the Gap commercials where the dancers are frozen and the camera angle shifts around them.
Andrew Mason lends the film the same look he gave Dark City, only this time the good guys wear black and everyone else is either a sentinel or prime fodder for target practice.
Is he the one? Is Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, the savior? Could he be
There are many similarities between the motion picture, Matrix, and Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game. The most striking of these is the way the movie and the book begin. The first chapter of the book begins with a conversation between two IF agents about how one believes that ender is the one. Similarly, in the movie the first words are from Trinity, also stating her belief that Neo is “the one”. The theme of the “chosen one” who is destined to save the human race is dominant in both the movie and book.
Hope is the expectation and the desire of an event to happen. For many people, having hope is to see a cruel reality with a positive feeling. From hope, faith comes in. Having faith in something unrealistic motivates people to keep moving forward and try the best of their abilities to make something happen. Most of today’s religions, especially Christianity, based most of their doctrine in the faith of salvation from Jesus Christ‘s sacrifice and the hope of living for eternity, if we obey the laws of God in accordance to the bible. Similarly, this hope and faith system can be seen in The Matrix, when Morpheus propagates his belief that “the one” will end the war that Zion has been fighting with the machines for long time. Evidence from the history of Christianity, along with the story line and symbolism found on The Matrix demonstrate that there are parallelism laying between these two, along with the manifestation of faith that makes everything possible to happen.
... the new messiah for the last city of people on earth. He finally believes in himself and sees the new world in the eyes of the others. He has developed the ability to defeat the artificial intelligence within the matrix and has begun the process of restoring man to his rightful place. His old realities have been shattered, and he has fight for his life, and the future of humanity, against this dangerous group of artificial intelligence.
Thomas Anderson is a computer programmer, but is also a hacker called Neo. A man called Morpheus contacts him, and following that, a girl called Trinity takes Neo to meet Morpheus. The scene I have selected comes near the beginning of the film. It is when Neo meets Morpheus for the first time, and asks him what the matrix is. Morpheus explains to him that what it is, cannot be told, but can only be seen. He then proceeds to offer Neo two pills; one is red, and one is blue. If he takes the blue pill, he will continue living his life as he is. If he takes the red pill, Morpheus will show him what the matrix is. Neo takes the red pill.
Looking back at the film, when Neo was being interrogated by Agent Smith, Smith highlighted Thomas' normal life. "You work for a respectable software corporation, you have a Social Security number, and you pay your taxes." These are all aspects of today's world: our reality. The film is trying to tell us that this is an issue to deal with now, not when it is already too late. The Matrix is telling us that we are already slaves to a technological society where life is all around us, but hardly ever affected by us. The film ends with a challenge from Neo to us. He challenges us, now that are eyes are opened, to see the world for what it really is, not the world created for us to be. He asks us to fight the Matrix, and escape form it.
Thomas Anderson, a.k.a Neo a man living a double life. During the day he is just an average man with an average job as a computer programmer. At night he lives the life of a as a computer hacker who goes by the name Neo, only known by his clients. Neo wakes up one night to a strange message on his computer, telling him to “follow the white rabbit”. Neo is then startled by the knock at his door, to which he then finds out that the “white rabbit” was tattooed onto the back of one of his clients. He is asked by the buyer if he would like to come out to a club with them to get a drink, once Neo sees the white rabbit he doesn’t hesitate to accept the offer. Standing in the club, Neo gets approached by a woman who happens to know not only his fake name, but also claims she knows everything about him. She tells him that he is being watched and that the only thing that she can tell him is that he is in danger. The question that haunts Neo, which he has been searching for his whole life, “what is the matrix”?
In the Wachowski Brothers’ film The Matrix (1999), mankind is being suppressed by a technological system known as the Matrix, the product of AI (artificial intelligence). This system controls humans through ridding them of their individual identities and keeping them sedated and living in a constructed dream world enabling machines to use their bodies as an energy source, thereby, ensuring their own continued survival. By extension, rendering humans as part of the whole, the “single consciousness” (The Matrix) that is AI. However, humans retain the ability to unplug from the technology that is the Matrix, separating themselves from the machines, resulting in the process of “othering”. Through “othering” humans are then able to pursue freedom
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