The Matrix critique and review
The Matrix-critique and reviewThe 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 is given hints
and clues first of all by the mysterious Trinity (played by Carrie Ann Moss),
who sends him messages on his computer that predicts coming events. Shortly
thereafter, Thomas is hurled bodily into "the game," and there he is left to
run, hide, make the leap or plummet to his death.
His engagement in this game begins when he is at work and receives a
call from Morpheus, warning him that "they" are after him. Sure enough, the
sinister men in black are at that precise moment 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 wakes up, as though from a dream. Little respite is allowed him,
however, as he is promptly picked up by Morpheus's team (also dressed in
black), held down in the back of the limo, and subjected to another bizarre
procedure, as the parasite implant is removed. Thomas yells out in horror,
"That thing is real?" By now we have no more clue than he does. As it turns
out, it isn't real, but then nothing else in...
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