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Monday, April 7, 2008

Why I thought the Matrix can be watched again and again

The Matrix, man that is one movie that really really stood out from the rest.

several key elements allowed that to happen. Let me elaborate.

It came out when I was liviing in Japan. I was in Tokyo at the time and had been there for several years. In a conversation I had with a japanese co-worker he mentioned that he had read that some of the scenes in the Matrix were inspired by japanese animes or mangas....and he was particularly excited to see it.

It was a movie that I went into not knowing anything about it. I had no expectations other than some hype I had heard about it. I had also seen a couple of the shoot'em'up previews....other than that nothing....

It had so many cool elements intertwined into an awesome story. Love, prophesies fulfilled, destiny, purposes, dedication, faith, religion, trust, martial arts, human potentiality, awareness levels,

One key element were the different emotional tones that the characters have or go through

Neo goes from an apathetic Mr. Anderson, to an all Knowing Neo.

Morpheus starts out with a high emotional tone and only for a second falters at one point when he sees Neo die

Agent Smith seems to be stuck in Hate and Anger. Fascinating....

Another point that the film nailed was the evil that can be perpetrated by a government body ie the Agents in The Matrix were very similar to Psychiatrists in the world we live in today.

The arrogant way in which the agents make an attempt to coerce Mr. Anderson (before his emancipation) is very similar to the way a Nazi Gestapo agent would have done it, or the way a Psychiatrist would do it with a patient, and where Agent smith resorted to planting an electronic virus into Mr. Anderson's belly, a psychiatrist could resort to heavy medications or electroconvulsive shock treatment. Nasty stuff.

The inclusion of Martial arts was so freaking genius also, and to see Neo and Morpheus going at it in the training room was a great way to start the training for Neo.

And finally the way he rises above the entrapment of the Matrix and in the end masters it...is a goal that all bonafide religions have sought for man.


Overal on a scale of 1 to 10....I give the Matrix a 12!!!!!

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