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AMAZING,GREAT,COOL...
There's no word to say how great this movie is! This is must-have in everybody's collection. Amazing actors,special effects,script,directors and everything. :) This is movie not only for s.c. fans,this is for everybody. Everyone find here something.

One of the best movies ever made!
At the time it was made, THE MATRIX was considered a cinematographic revolution. Everything about it was so novel that it changed the way action moviemakers thought about making their movies.
THE MATRIX is just the perfect movie. It has a great stroyline, great philosophy behind the story, and great action scenes. It is, therefore, expected to satisfy a wide range of people with different tastes.
I watched this movie many years ago and I consider it to be a great catalyst of my intellectual development. It is a movie that makes you think about the nature of the world, reality, metaphysics and much more. It is a movie that makes you question almost everything in life. It does that without getting you bogged down in the details, but instead, it does it while providing a kind of kung fu that you've never seen before!

A Film That Resonated With A Generation
The Matrix was an enormously popular film. While it would seem to be a rather monochromatic, brooding, recycled work of science fiction, its popularity will lie in its extraordinary visual effects, and a theme which resonated strongly with a generation.

The title is taken from "The Matrix", which represents the world in which we presently live. However, its inhabitants do not really exist in this world. Rather, in the words of Morpheus, this world represents "a neural-interactive simulation that we call The Matrix". While this world's inhabitants experience the simulation as though it were real, their real essences -- with the exception of a few -- are being tapped to power the simulation. By implication, as a person's essence is drained from them, so is the simulation kept alive.

Several issues recur in the film, and it is on these I shall focus here, rather than the more superficial progression of the plot. The perspectives are characteristically postmodern:

The film would suggest that the true nature of reality is such that it lies beyond decipherment. Cypher states: "There's way too much information to decode the Matrix." At first, when humans sought to impose an incomplete system on their world, they "marvelled at our own magnificence". Yet these human constructions led to the loss of dignity and freedom, "a race of machines". The artificiality of "the construct" led, in turn, to a sense of alienation among humans. Trinity says to Neo: "I know why you hardly sleep, and why night after night you sit at your computer." The film raises several other issues: the arbitrary nature of identity -- "from clothing to equipment, weapons, training simulation, anything we need"; the question of "misery and suffering" -- conjecturing that this might enable human beings to "define their reality"; the concern that human beings are "a cancer of this planet"; and an apparent fixation with determinism, or fate. In the words of Neo: "I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life."

The film makes a few attempts to answer the conundrums of the human condition:

It would suggest that we are capable of recognising our enslavement to the Matrix. There is a reality beyond this world, "a world without rules and controls." The door is there -- you only "have to walk through it". However, it is a one-way door. "I can't go back, can I," says Neo. That is, the post- phenomenon is not just a fad. Not only this, but we would appear to have a mission to destroy the Matrix -- hence, apparently, much of the violence of the film (it has an R rating in the USA). Morpheus explains: "The Matrix . . . is our enemy." The ultimate answer to life is tentatively suggested as lying beyond system and reason. There is a difference between "knowing" and "walking" the path, explains Trinity -- and in the closing scenes, she says to Neo: "If you're killed in the Matrix, your body cannot live without the mind." Neo, however, continues to live despite this, apparently through the power of love: "Because I LOVE you!"

At the end of the film, Neo Anderson (tr. new man) is returned to his original environment, after having discovered the true nature of the Matrix -- yet now he looks around him apparently renewed. Finally he looks up, and takes to the skies like Superman. Is Neo truly a renewed man? Does he truly possess new possibilities? Where do we go from here? After all, only Superman can fly. Among his closing words are these: "I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin."

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