The Matrix is
a movie made to last the test of time and remain relevant whenever the Sci-Fi
genre is mentioned. The movie is a classic, known mainly for its use of the
visual effect known as "bullet time." It went on to win four Academy
Awards for its Visual Effects, Editing, Sound Mixing, and Sound Editing. The
story arc leaves you wondering, and its ending opens the door to many
possibilities.
The Wachowski
brothers took the best of the Sci-Fi genre and an idea that never seems to stop
plaguing the minds of many: that one day, computers will take over. The movie
is directed by the brothers and produced by Joel Silver.
The story arc is
about a post-apocalyptic future where humans are used as fuel to power
machines. The human race developed “THE A.I.” program, which in turn waged war
against its creators. In the end, the human race lost and is now grown for
fuel. Their brains are fed with ideas of a real life, while their minds live in
a world called The Matrix.
There, the human
race lives their lives as if everything is normal, unaware that the life they
live isn’t real.
The twist in
this tale is that some figured it out. The last collection of free humans—most
of whom were taken out of The Matrix’s control—live in a place called Zion. But
there’s a prophecy that a certain man will come and save humanity from the
machines. That man has been found by Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and his
crew, which includes Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss). The name of that man is Neo
(Keanu Reeves)—or, as Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) calls him, Mr. Anderson.
The 1982 Disney
movie Tron was,
to me, the main inspiration for The Matrix, as it features lives in the
grid—lives within a computer system. The Matrix can also be said to
have drawn ideas from other 90s movies like The
Truman Show (1998), where Jim Carrey’s life is controlled by an
external source, and he’s none the wiser. Additionally, the fight scenes seem
to have been influenced by Japanese animation (anime), which the Wachowski
brothers took a liking to.
After the huge
success of this movie, the Wachowski brothers went on to make two sequels (The
Matrix Reloaded and The
Matrix Revolutions), both released four years later in 2003. They also
expanded the story with comic books, cartoons, and video games.
The Matrix is a good movie—in fact, it’s a great movie, ranking high on any Sci-Fi list. It helped kick off the whole trilogy phase that’s now popular in Hollywood.
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