The MatrixCritique And Review Essay Research Paper

The Matrix-Critique And Review Essay, Research Paper

The 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 his life is, either.

When Thomas finally meets Morpheus, he finds a regal and highly stylish

man with soft, seductive tones to match his name. In what is perhaps the

most unforgettable part of the movie, Morpheus explains everything to Thomas.

First

of all, following his opening speech, he offers Thomas a choice. He can take

a blue pill or a red pill. By taking the former, he will wake up again and

all this will be just a dream. Take the red, however, and he goes through the

looking glass and finds out “how deep the rabbit hole goes”. Of course, he

takes the red. His decision is already built into Morpheus’s offer, because,

if it’s only a dream, why not take the red; and if it’s not, then why take

the blue. But what Thomas undergoes as a result of the red pill is like

every psychedelic seeker’s worst trip.

As the betrayer Cypher (played by Joe Pantoliano) puts it, “Why-oh-why

did I take that damn pill.” Thomas is torn from a very real world, and there

given the hideous, literally mind-shattering Truth that he is a slave to an

order of inorganic beings that until this moment, he did not even know

existed. Morpheus explains that the year is not really 1999, that it is in

fact closer to one century later, and that civilization has in the meantime

already been destroyed. Civilization’s destruction was a result of the

discovery of Artificial Intelligence (AI), somewhere around the start of the

twenty-first century. There had been a standoff between man and machine,

between the creation and the creator, and the machine won. AI discovered a

means not merely to destroy civilization and inherit the Earth’s prospect,

but to develop for itself cybernetic, semi-organic bodies, using human beings

as its primary energy source. The machines were solar-powered, but the

human-engineered holocaust blocked out the sun. To this end, human beings

were

enslaved. They were put into a deep sleep, and a collective dream was

engendered to keep them tractable and docile, like babies in their cribs,

while their vital life force was sucked from them. Humans are bred and

raised directly into these incubators, and fed intravenously with the

liquefied remains of the dead.

The coll

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