The Matrix-critique And Review
The movie, "The Matrix" is a complex, yet easy watching movie. It involves
many things to think about, but is easy to understand. "The Matrix" combines
love and action into one great movie.
The story is as follows: Thomas Anderson (played by Keanu Reeves) is a
dull and lifeless employee for a computer firm. He also lives a "secret"
life as a hacker who sells some sort of illegal software. What he is
involved in we can only guess, since the film hasn't the time to tell us.
Somehow, along the way, he has been brought into contact with a man named
Morpheus (played by Laurence Fishburne), a notorious "terrorist" whom he has
never actually met but has been seeking for some time. Thomas ...
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being directed to his desk.
Following intricate instructions from Morpheus (who appears to be able to see
the entire layout of Thomas's world as if he is looking at a map, or like a
god looking down
from on high), Thomas sneaks past the agents into an empty office. There
Morpheus tells to make an improbable leap to safety. He fails to make the
leap, does not even try in fact, and allows himself to be captured by the
government agents instead.
He is taken into custody and while there is offered a deal which demands
him to cooperate in the tracking of Morpheus, in return he will get a clean
slate. When he refuses the deal, his world without warning warps into a
nightmare, as the agent whose name is Smith (played by Hugo Weaving)
literally wipes Thomas's mouth off, leaving him speechless and in horror.
The other agents hold him down as a mechanical, but living parasite-like
cyber-organism is inserted into his body, through the naval. At this point,
Thomas ...
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by Joe Pantoliano) puts it, "Why-oh-why
did I take that damn pill?" Thomas is torn from a very real world, and there
given the hideous, literally mind-shattering Truth that he is a slave to an
order of inorganic beings that until this moment, he did not even know
existed. Morpheus explains that the year is not really 1999, that it is in
fact closer to one century later, and that civilization has in the meantime
already been destroyed. Civilization's destruction was a result of the
discovery of Artificial Intelligence (AI), somewhere around the start of the
twenty-first century. There had been a standoff between man and machine,
between the creation and the creator, and the ...
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