This has
numerous voice cast and different directors for each of the short films, and it
was produced by The Wachowskis.
The Animatrix is
meant to be a bridge between what we don’t know about the war between humans
and machines and what we know from The Matrix movie. But in the end,
I just found it hard to stay awake after the third short film in the eight-part
animation series. By the time the fourth short animation started, I was already
far gone. I woke up, rewound the DVD to the fourth film, and watched it from
there onward. I immediately regretted it because it felt like God was trying to
save me from a mishap, and I stubbornly insisted on walking through the fire.
The Wachowski
brothers are anime fans, so they wrote four of the eight episodes in The
Animatrix, which served as a backstory to The Matrix trilogy. The
remaining four stories are independent. The brothers came up with the stories
while promoting the first Matrix movie in Japan, and the production
and release were timed to coincide with the release of the last two films in
the franchise (The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions).
The stories have
high critical ratings, but to me, they’re overrated. This movie is filled with
so many lackluster dialogues and monologues, and the whole idea of adding flesh
to the bony foundation of The Matrix just seemed like a marketing
strategy to keep fans hooked.
To me, the sad
part is that the last two Matrix films (The Matrix Reloaded and The
Matrix Revolutions), which The Animatrix was released alongside, are
just full of effects without fully justifying their purpose. We may desire
happy endings, and The Matrix Revolutions kind of gave us that, but
it came at the price of two tragedies. This movie is meant to show the
justification for those tragedies, explaining why the human race lost the
battle and how the machines even got into the fight in the first place.
My final take is
this: all you need to do is watch the first Matrix movie. It has
everything you need to know. Let your imagination fill in the gaps because all
these other additions are just a waste of your time.
The characters Neo, Trinity, and Kid also appear in this eight-part animation package, with their voices provided by their original actors: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Clayton Watson.
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