Saturday, March 8, 2008

THE MATRIX.

Wow, what a movie! The Matrix was packed with lots of action and thrill. I loved every minute of it. The reason the movie was called The Matrix is because Morpheus defines the word matrix as a "World that blinds you from the truth, and it's like a slave that’s born into bondage that cannot small or taste." The movie Matrix is all about controlling the humans from the agents named Jones, Smith, and Brown. The agents are machines themselves and their one objective is to destroy Zion which is the last human city. Morpheus believes that Neo is "the One"; Neo is the man who will have limitless powers and will be able to have control over the Matrix. Neo goes by the name of Mr. Thomas Anderson who works in a big company as a computer programmer thus the agents capture him and ask him to join them or else face his death, however Neo turns down the offer and they instill in his body a poisonous creature. Neo is taken to see Morpheus by the other crew members of his, and Trinity takes the creature out of him with an electrical machine. Morpheus offers him the chance to learn the truth about Matrix. Neo accepts the offer by taking a red pill which will help him to know everything there is about the Matrix; however Neo does not know what he is getting himself into. Morpheus and his crew start the procedure by putting him in a liquid chamber connected with wires. This will allow him to have a socket connected to his skull in order to allow him to have access to the matrix world, and to also have other information stored in his mind, like certain fighting techniques in order to fight against the agents. “The human race is not free as long as the Matrix exits”, says Morpheus to Neo on their trip to training. They learned many skills like Kong- fu, having a faster speed against the agents, paying attention and not getting distracted- for example by the blonde woman in the red dress ,since getting distracted can lead you to danger like the computerized agent who was standing behind Neo with a gun when they were training. Morpheus takes Neo to the Oracle who says that perhaps he is waiting for something and that Morpheus believes that he is “the One” even to the point to sacrifice his own life. She also says that he will have to make a decision either to save his life or the life of Morpheus. While the crew are about to go to their ship they are ambushed by the SWAT and the three agents who capture Morpheus while the others escape. They later find out that they were betrayed by one of their crew members by the name of Cypher who felt it was better to be in the world of Matrix. This resulted in the death of some crew members and only Neo, Trinity, Morpheus, and Tank were left alive. Tank kills Cypher in the end. Neo and Trinity save Morpheus from the agents, but when Morpheus and Trinity exit the Matrix through the phone line the agent ambushes Neo before he can even leave. Both are fighting and Neo defeats him by having a train run over him, however he possesses another body and Neo escapes while he runs all over the city the agent shots him and he falls. Trinity believes that he is the one, since the Oracle told her she would fall in love with “the One’’ she kisses him and he comes to back to life and realizes that he is” the one” and kills the agent while the other two run away. Neo promises that he will save the people from the Matrix since anything can happen. I really enjoyed this movie a lot and I would most definitely recommend it to others.