When I saw this movie, the first time, it knocked me across the room. It was the most powerful experience.
The Matrix is almost impossible to reduce to words because it is an experience. You have to see and hear and focus on the movie yourself. I had to buy the DVD, (which was subsequently permanently ‘borrowed’ by a friend of mine) so that I could verify if what I thought I saw/heard/deduced was there or not.
It is a motion picture which provokes questions of what is real, how do you know what is real?
On the surface it is about a computer programmer who begins to question reality and makes contact with others who ask the question; “What is the Matrix?”
Depending on how educated one is, how well read, the numerous references to religious and philosophical ideas, are either apprecited, or pass in wonder.
For example, if one had read Plato, the ‘allegory of the cave‘ is clear. The references to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, are numerous and clear.
This is a movie which can be seen on so many levels and requires focus, because no word of dialogue is wasted or unnecessary. No scene can be missed. You blink, you lose.
It is so well crafted, so perfect, that you must watch it more than once.
The first scenes will knock you across the room. You won’t grasp what has just happened. For one is seeing life in The Matrix by someone, ‘Trinity’, who has escaped the Matrix, and is, as a number of others, able to get back in and out.
Neo, someone inside of The Matrix, who has, over years of hacking, begun to perceive that something is wrong with ‘life’ as he knows it, is contacted by Trinity, introduced to Morpheus, and given the opportunity to take the ‘red pill’ and learn the truth or take the ‘blue pill’ and return to the The Matrix.
He takes the red pill.
There are many special effects, primarily ‘Bullet Time’, super slow motion where one can see a bullet move at slow motion to emphasize the ability of the characters to control time and space in the Matrix. The effect was created by having a number of cameras around an object and triggered simultaneously.
Each camera is a still-picture camera and it contributes just one frame. When shown in sequence, they create the illusion of an object frozen in time.
If you have not seen this movie, I urge you to watch it, it will open your mind.
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I have seen the entire Matrix series before and you are absolutely correct when you say you miss a crucial point with a blink of your eye.
But such movies are not for everyone. Only a limited section of viewers will be able to correlate the events together.
I loved watching it though it required loads of concentration and mental ability.
Less intelligent people can see a kind of 'kung fu' movie, and still enjoy it... but not as much as those who know what they are seeing.
there is a very big difference between seeing and understanding. The second ones stand far ahead of the first ones.
What made the movie so important to me was that I was a hacker, so I was already in Neo's shoes, and had often had this sense of The Matrix. I'd read Alice, knew Plato's analogy of the Cave. For those who only saw a Sci-Fi show, they missed so much. We used to debate the meaning of the Matrix, the names chosen for the characters, and watched all three of the Matrix more than once.
This is one of my favorite Sci-Fi movies, and I believe it is one of the best Sci-Fi movies made so far!
I consider it the best movie ever made. It was perfectly crafted.