The Matrix Review

Yeah so we're like supposed to write a review. So i'm guessing very few of us here has ever written a review about a movie. Well to start off I've probably watched this movie like 20 times. No, I'm not a big fan, its just that this movies has been out for quite some while and it is frequently aired on a whole bunch of channels. I've watched it in english and spanish, with and without subtitles. This movie has actors such Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne and some other famous people. I'm not to good at remembering actors name. I always seem to remember their character's name but not their real life name, but since I remember one of our proffessors saying that we should remember the actors name, I'm gonna go check on wikipedia right now.



Yeah so the other important actors names are Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving (I just copied and pasted their names). I'm not a huge fan of sci-fi films but overall I would say I do like them. Anyway I believe The Matrix should be watched at least once by everybody. Alright to get the facts out of the way, this movie takes place in the future, around the year 2199, to be more exact. Neo(Keanu Reeves) or Mr. Anderson believes he is a normal person living in the year 1999 working for company as a computer something. He does however have this weird feeling that something is wrong with the world. He doesn't know what it is though. After this weird people wearing sunglasses on a cloudy day show up and fast-paced action occurs. He is then shown the reality. Neo discovers that his whole life had been a lie. He was living in a program called the matrix. A program that was used to keep people under control so that their bodies could be used as batteries to benefit other sentient beings.



This movies gets you thinking. You know, that real life isn't real life. On the day we saw the movie in class when i got home i checked out the Allegory of The Cave on wikipedia. I was suprised because this is pretty much the same thought that ran through my mind after having watched the film. Say you found out that the life you have lived so far has been nothing but a lie. You were revealed the truth. After the truth was done hitting you like a fat guy bodyslamming a chihuahua, would you want to go back to living like you were before? Could you go back to living like you were before?

I think the idea of the matrix could be put into many different settings. Like say i think here in the U.S. we all live in a fantasy world. Almost all , if not all, bits of information we recieve goes through some sort of filtering system. We don't receive the whole truth. Why not? Will something huge occur if we do? Is it because they don't want us to worry? We are told that we should be happy and the things are being taken care. We are told that the bad things occuring aren't as bad as we think they are(Our current War). We aren't told the complete truth. Why? Is it because we are being protected or is it because we are being kept under control? There are so many secrets being kept from us. They are covered up by putting other issues in front of us. Iraq isn't the only place where people are dying because of U.S. intervention. Darfur isn't the only place where children are raised with fear and are forced to fight. Cuba isn't the only place with a dictator that treats his people like so.

Oh and did anybody see President Bush do a little dance in front of the cameras on T.V? It was while he was waiting for Mckain to appear.