The Matrix Review (1999)

The Matrix Review (1999)


Thomas Anderson is your everyday person who works at a computer company, but at night he works as a computer hacker, codenamed Neo. For a very long time now he’s been searching for a man named Morpheus, to find out what is ‘The Matrix’. He later learns that the world he currently knows is a computer simulation known as the matrix which is used by the machines in the true world, to fool human beings and use them as a sort of battery for the machines to feed upon. With the help of Morpheus, Trinity and many other allies, Neo starts a mission to free people from the matrix and save all humankind from the machines.
This is a film that even though a decade has passed is still held as one of the greats, the amount of time and preparation towards this film was immense, the story itself is just as good. At first glance its got a cliché story, humans against machines to survive, but that is not really the case, because it’s the method used to portray the story is what really separates this film from others. In fact even the Wachowski brothers who wrote and directed the film(s) said that not even they knew what message they were trying to accomplish in this, the philosophy and back story behind it is all too great and complex. Even the actors were in a state of confusion, before they were to even act on their scenes they were given recommended philosophy books related to the film to read through. They didn’t know what the purpose behind it truly was but they read them nonetheless.
This is the first of the trilogy films and in my eyes I have no favourites as I like all three films, but the first is really good of course because it is where big events all start to happen. It really takes what you think you understand of the world and turn everything upside turn, questioning our very existence. If you haven’t seen this title yet, then it is recommended that you stop reading this and go grab yourself a copy this instance.