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In the full reaction, did you happen to mention if you noticed that Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishburne were both in this movie, after recently seeing them together in the John Wick franchise?
Not to mention a couple of other nods to The Matrix movies, like the line "Guns. Lots of guns.", as well as another actor having a role in both franchises.
- Oh .. My ... God bro, I cannot believe this... you made an observation that not only have I never made, but also, I have never seen a single reaction channel where the reactor made this observation/connection ... when Switch called Neo "Coppertop" you made the connection to that being a battery, and it is SO INCREDIBLY RELEVANT to this movie, it's unbelievable, you are brilliant, and you didn't even realize why that term was so relevant.
@@Tommysimonsen - I don't think that's what they were talking about in the movie, "The Matrix" wasn't making power, The Matrix was just a VR simulator to keep the minds of the humans occupied believing they were living a normal life, just a deception to keep the people convinced they were living a normal life. The power that was being created didn't have much if anything to do with The Matrix itself, the power being generated was being created by the biological human body - it isn't specifically explained in detail but as Morpheus said, the human body creates X number of BTU electrical current so I'm not an electrical engineer, but here is the way I see it in simplistic viewpoint ::
One human = 100 units of electricity
One Tower = 10,000 human bodies
One Tower Field = 100 towers
So that would mean that for ever field of towers the A.I. had set up (there could have been thousands of them) there was 100 Million Units of electricity ... for each field, so basically all these stacks and stacks of human bodies were just a giant generator, making HUGE amounts of electricity. Bio-electrical generators.
The Matrix was just the "T.V. Show" that the people were perpetually 'watching' while they lay there doing nothing but generating electricity for the Machines.
you need to do reloaded and revolutions. skip ressurections total woke garbage.
Bro you make your movies impossible to see the screen. Make it a little bit more opaque
Gonna level with you, I think a lot of these makeup and clothing choices seem strange because you aren't familiar with the 90's goth scene. While this movie made the fashion popular, this stuff was being worn in goth and industrial clubs for the entire decade.
Omg this. This was the style for most of the 90's and even into the 00's
the only other places you ever got whifs of it outside of that scene was shopping malls and concerts
Interesting fact about this movie, the place he met trinity originally in the goth club type place? yeah they actually filmed that in a real club at the time, and those were not extras, they were actual people.
Very true, this movie and The Craft
Hot Topic will never die.
After getting dumped from his pod, Neo was no longer receiving artificial support to his movements or organ function. He was essentially coming out of a 30 year coma with atrophied muscles, underdeveloped lungs, eyes that had never been directly used, etc. Having the memory of learning how to do things doesn't help when you have a body that's incapable of performing even basic motion on its own. Plus he had fallen hundreds of meters down the flushing slide before dropping what looked to be another 30ish meters into the waste water. Add overall shock to the mix and yeah, he'd be out pretty quick.
Morpheus' ability to break the cuffs was no different from Trinity's ability to run on walls or make the jump.. They are all able to bend the rules of the Matrix to the measure which they understand and truly believe, giving them enhanced strength, speed and agility.. But the One.. he can go beyond that, he can totally break the rules.
Because he's a program born into a human body. A glitch. An overflow error. Agent Anderson.
There are no cuffs….
That being said, I believe Trinity, as well as most of the others in the crew, were potential "ones" who Morpheus "freed" from the Matrix as kids. This point makes Cypher's actions bit more understandable: imagine being yanked from "comfortable" Matrix as a kid and being raised as being a potential one, you learn amazing stuff and life's great; you hear about Trinity's oracle advice and think she will fall in love with you, but with time it becomes more and more clear you're not the one and Trinity won't love you and rest of your long life is just miserable quest to find the actual One for the guy who took you. Cypher's the worst, but I can see why he wants to go back and forget.
He did it in a drug state.
(or warping the spoon)
I do thing it should have been more clear he was using the matrix other than brute strength.
Muscles can break chain.... I've seen it done. It just normally isn't done that easily or that quick.
Hugo Weaving is an auditory marvel, and every role he gets he nails as well.
Don't forget about his role as V, in V for Vendetta. Without ever being able to see his face, he gave a riveting portrayal of V's emotions and state of mine.
@@OriginalLictre ^ this YES. Absolutely this
The amount of questions you had in the first part of the movie makes me miss the days when movies would trust you to hold all the facts and events in your head until the light bulb moment occurred and it all made sense later on in the movie. Those days were great for storytelling. The audience participated in the unfolding events.
THIS!!! ☝️
He is so painful to watch, I'm sorry but he is.
Thank you I didn’t see this kindly. If you get a break, I mean he’s annoying as hell
Any humans who are disconnected from the Matrix can learn to bend the rules a bit when they hack back in. In most cases, this manifests as enhanced strength and speed. Not enough to compete with Agents, but way beyond what average citizens can manage. In some rarer cases, like the kids in the Oracle's apartment, you get what appears to be telekinesis, but is actually them bending the code to their will on a limited basis. In Neo's case, once he fully awakened to his abilities, he is effectively a god within the Matrix.
The matrix sequels were filmed back to back and made like one really long movie so when you get to them you might want to consider watching them back to back. Meaning consider keeping 2 open movie slots back to back when you decide to go ahead with the sequels.
Just skip the sequels...not worth watching.
The sequels are not good!
@wakeup they are good, they just don't do as much handholding with the philosophy as the first movie. And the action is very much a misdirection that covers the lore. I was guilty of being a teen when I first watched them and didn't listen to the Architect and his association with the Oricle. Also Neo asks if he can trust the Oricle, this is an important hint that even if she helps him, she's playing a longer game and not for Neo's benefit.
4th movie is a bullshit money grab and 4th wall breaking nonsense that pisses on the original trilogy.
@@jeremyanderson3035 I agree with all of that (and also recommend to watch Animatrix), except I'd add that the 4th movie, while a bullshit money grab, was (at least to me) clearly horrible on purpose, a farce. 4th movie's point was to break the 4th wall and carpet bomb the franchise in the actual real world. The movie itself has a line like "WB was going to make this with or without us". Might be my coping but I like to think that the movie was Lilly's middle finger to WB for forcing her to make a cashgrab sequel: It shouldn't have been made and lo' and behold, Matrix 5 is not in development. From that point of view it's quite successful and somewhat enjoyable.
7:15 I love that you caught that. It's a joke/reference that only makes sense after you've seen the movie. I imagine Neo would've been equally confused as to why she called him Copper Top, but he had a gun in his face, so he didn't really get to ask.
Oh, it might amuse you to know that the Wachowskis gave a copy of Simulation and Simulacra to the cast members to get them on the same page as to the themes and whatnot of the movie. Out of the whole cast, Laurence Fishburne was apparently the only one who really got it.
I'm 100% sure that was not an intentional catch lol... This reactor is the epitome of assuming he's correct (when he's not) and explaining things that basically everyone knows... He's the NDG of reactors... It's still fun to watch though lol
I'd never realised copper top referred to a battery before i heard it here so that mention never made sense to me and i put it out of my mind, hearing him question her call him battery though immediately made me understand why that choice in dialogue.
@@fir3gaming664 it's the nickname/marketing gimmick of Duracell, whose battery you see again when Morpheus explains everything to Neo.
@@drewf8619 Feel the same. I sometimes need a short break from listening to him though i enjoy him a lot.😄
Beside the point but i think originally a Copper Top meant a person with ginger hair.🙂
The purpose for walking through the metal detectors was that it was as cool as all fuck.
I don’t think he’s grasped that concept quite yet! 😂😂
Glad you liked it. But... HOW THE HELL HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THE MATRIX BEFORE?!
Cheers, and have a great day!
He lives in a bubble.
Holy shit you just literally blew my mind. Your analysis is on point. That was extremely clever picking up when Switch calls Neo a coppertop, she literally just called him a battery, which is exactly what he is but I never picked up on that. Great spot in any case and fantastic reaction.
You really enjoyed this?
By far my favorite childhood movie. The sequels came out for my birthday as a teen, and please, watch both sequels in the mindset that they’re meant to be taken as one full experience. They were released months after each other and deserve to be respected as one full piece of transformative art. Watch the animatrix also, it’s a deeply rewarding franchise.
Would also highly recommend the sequels, super worth watching
The first movie was fun and original, the sequels are a waste. As a trilogy, it is extremely overrated.
@@jeffersonparsons5519 Revolution, I agree with you on. But the action and world building in Reloaded pretty much cemented this series as an all-time classic. And even though it took me a couple of watches to get Resurrection, I loved it. That may be rose tinted glasses, but I digged almost everyone's performance, especially after Keanu's re-introduction around John Wick.
I think the sequels are a stitched-together mess, and mostly a shaggy dog story. The original is, for me, a stand-alone classic.
Excpet Resurrections... what a pile of hot garbage that was. I want to erase it from my brain.
I think powering down the ship before using the EMP is like unplugging your computer before a power surge.
Yeah my understanding of how an EMP works in real life is that it only effects live electronics (or if there is any effect on inactive electronics it's very minimal), so by turning all their equipment off before using it their equipment is protected. It's similar to the idea of detecting solar storms where the earth would effectively get an EMP blast from the sun, and in the process fry much of the electricity grid worldwide if precautions aren't taken. One of those would be to know when it's going to hit and shutdown the entire electricity grid temporarily so it's not effected, and then safely power everything up again once it has passed.
11:32 well hold on now. Take this into consideration when analyzing the situation. This is theoretically the first time Neo is ever out of the matrix. The first time he has ever used his muscles. The first time he’s ever REALLY gone for a swim. Even if the knowledge of him knowing how to swim carried over in his transition to the matrix, it’s unlikely his muscles would be developed enough to stay afloat as he is basically born again. Love the reaction btw!
It would be the same as laying in bed for 20+ years and then jumping into a pool and trying to swim. Your body can't handle it.
Muscle atrophy
I've heard that in the original script, the machines were using the human brains as computers to run the matrix, along with their own AI. Then there was some executive meddling to change the script so that the humans are used as batteries - they thought this would be more understandable by audiences, which doesn't really make sense from a physics point of view, but it still makes sense from a metaphorical point of view (i.e. "This computer is powered by so and so CPU"). If you look at the story from that point of view (the humans in the matrix are the very computers that it runs on), it makes a lot more sense.
Unfortunately that's an urban myth. It's based on the short story by Neil Gaiman that he wrote after principle filming was done.
The Wachowski sisters have said that the closest analog is like humans are a sort of spark plug for the fusion towers, keeping it generating huge amounts of energy from their small inputs.
I like the processor idea better, tbh
@@Cthulhuvong Thanks, I didn't know it was a myth. It always sounded better to me.
Will Smith was supposed to be Neo at first
Pretty sure CTRL-X was an escape command in Unix/Linux.
You can understand now why it was a big deal for fans of The Matrix when John Wick meets The Bowery King... right?
FYI, if you decide to continue on with the sequels, highly recommend "NOT" skipping the collection of animated shorts, known as The Animatrix, it fills in a lot of the backstory, history and current events of this world, while also exploring different philosophical concepts and telling a wide range of stories. It's also pretty unique, in that each segment was created by different animation studios and artists, so it's like a smorgasbord of animation styles and techniques, which helps each chapter really stand out from the others. It also sets up the events for the sequel Reloaded, and while not quintessential, it does help, not to mention that many consider it the 2nd best entry in the franchise after the original film.
I also highly recommend Animatrix. It fills in the gaps on how the AI came into power and how we destroyed ourselves.
100% this⬆️⬆️⬆️
Track star going down, man that was harsh.
When he flexes with the building moving around him still gives goosebumps… and that stare though!
To answer your question at the end about how did the Agent know what room Neo would try to get to.
It's the room from the start of the movie that Trinity was using for her setup when the cops then interupt her.
Smith realised where Neo was trying to escape to.
This. I didn’t catch that until I’d seen it a few times.
It’s also room 303 (Trinity)
Neo’s room is 101 (the one). Neo is also an acronym for One.
They even showed the Hotel's signpost on the side of the building again to double down on why Smith knows the room. Yep.
The room at the end, 303 in the hotel Heart O' The City, was the same room that trinity was in at the beginning. Agent Smith remembered.
The early change that happened to Neo, in his first encounter with the Agents, when his mouth was essentially deleted was a reference to one of the earliest cyber-punk themed novels involving a hostile Artificial Intelligence, titled "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream"
I never noticed before but neo’s whole ability in the matrix is basically ignoring the rules and Tank gave him that mindset by skipping the “operational manuals” at the beginning of his training he skipped the rules of the game.
Interesting concept. I wished they went further down that road.
By kissing him, I think trinity was forcing his real body to breath. It's the body's natural survival mode. His mind was making him believe he was dead. When she cut off his air by kissing him, the body sent a survival mode signal to the brain to take a breath, which also sent the message that he's not really dead.
Once he took that breath, his matrix mind figured it out and his special coding kicked in. He got up and took control.
The Oracle knew that Trinity would be hesitant to act on her feelings until the appropriate time. So to most people it just seemed like a corny fairytale moment where he wakes from a kiss, but it was actually logical science.
Also, Trinity is his touchstone. ...in programming that would make her, his cornerstone. Their bond is like a special programming. I don't know all the tech jargon to be specific, but I hope you get what I mean.
To me, this is where science meets religion. Neo is like Jesus, Morpheus and Trinity are like his ride or die people who would do things to people in the matrix to get things done...sort of like the two criminals who were crucified with Christ. That would make Cypher a "Judas" who betrayed them with telling their whereabouts, because he wanted the big life in the Matrix.
Neo dies and then wakes up/ resurrects. He then has powers beyond the imagination. Him and his crew, remaining disciplines will continue to spread the word (the gospel) to set people free from the evil hold of the machines.
Btw...Neo is an anagram for One, as in The One.
Hugo weaving (Agent Smith) was in the first Captain America movie as Red Skull.
He is also Elron from Lord of the Rings series.
Another great series to watch, if you decide to do shows too, is Westworld. It's sort of the same idea of A.I. and mankind existing together with drama. It's so good and makes you think about the situations for a minute. A lot of the MCU alumni is in that show.
A lot of small roll characters in the John Wick series were actors he worked with before in the Matrix series.
great comment
Yeah, everyone misses the fact that Trinity was touching Neo in the real world while he was plugged into the Matrix. It's not true love saving him, it's the fact that Neo's body is reacting to Trinity and realizing that it didn't actually get shot.
Also with the John Wick mention, there was a moment in John Wick 3 where Keanu quotes the Matrix near the end when Winston asks what he needs..."Guns, lots of guns"
By hearing her and feeling her, he knows that he can't be dead. I'm usually not a romantic person, but I really like the way they're set up in this movie. I think it sometimes catches people off guard because Trinity falls in love the way we usually see *guys* fall in love in fiction.
Thank you so much for this comment. I've always hated that kiss because it did seem super corny. Too much like a Sleeping Beauty moment for me. But your evaluation of that scene makes a lot more sense to me.
I am always amazed how you have never seen these classic movies before.
The original script had the machines using humans as Memory, not Batteries, but the studio didn't get it and didn't think the audience would get it, so they made them change it to Batteries.
Neo, "Are you telling me I can dodge bullets?"
Morpheus, "No, I'm saying that when you are ready you won't have to."
.....
Neo, "NO"
Bullets stop midair. :)
I'm totally willing to get on board with you not watching this movie before, but the idea that your both very tech savy yet not familiar with what the matrix is at all at this point in time is mind blowing to me 😂.
Fun fact the battery analogy is consider a terrible one because humans would make poor batteries.The director had a more realistic analogy of what humans could have been used for, closer to something like a cpu. But were forced to change it because most of audience didn't understand it and battery was more simple to understand.
Since they invented a new kind of fusion, we can’t know whether or not it would be a terrible one, but I agree, the cpu is a much better idea.
You should check out Dark City (1998). It was released months before the Matrix, and was overshadowed somewhat due to that, but it is a really good movie in the same genre and feel (they actually used some of the same sets because they were filmed side-by-side at the same studio). Basically, a guy wakes up with no memory, being chased by both the police (who suspect him of being a serial killer), and pale strangers in trenchcoats (who are chasing him for unknown reasons). Things develop into a scifi psychological thriller, like the Matrix, that kinda screws with perceptions of reality.
I for one aslo enjoyed dark city.
Specifically the Director's Cut. The normal theatrical release gives away the whole plot of the movie during the voiceover at the start.
Roger Ebert named it the best film of 1998.
This movie is an absolute masterpiece in film making. Shame they never made any sequels.
💀
Uh, they did. I personally don't think they were that great.
@@toxikelement1372 That was op's point.
@@toxikelement1372 I know they did, it was a joke about how bad they are.
@@9Blu ok, cool 👍
Ctrl-X is also an "Escape" Command in Unix-like computer systems.
The body trauma thing is a hangup for me too. I could see feeling the pain in the real world, but not getting a bloody lip from a fall. No one is riddled with gunshot wounds after they get blown away in the Matrix, either. Of course if we go looking for holes in anything we're gonna find them, so whatever- still a legit movie.
Check out the Animatrix, a collection of animated shorts that depict the emergence of the machines
After the movies 💯 he's gotta understand the universe to really get the Animatrix but it's absolutely amazing
You know, for some reason it always bugs me when "deleted" is used instead of the proper M D K terms that exist to describe those actions however if you are ever going to say "He needs to be deleted" this is definitely the right movie for that to be the appropriate term.
2:20 In both the Unix and the Linux computer systems, "Control+X" is a command to "Exit the currently running program", the equivalent Windows command is "Control+Alt+Delete".
Just FYI. :)
Your comment on liking the colouring of the real world scenes better than that of the Matrix scenes is very interesting. I don't know if you already know through subsequent reading about the filming of the movie, but the colour filtering of particular scenes was a very deliberate choice by the Wachowskis, with scenes in the Matrix being green-filtered to give them a slightly unreal, otherworldly feel.
I used to dream about this movie all the time. And then I learned about lucid dreaming and how to control my dreams. Once you realize that you're dreaming, you are capable doing many things!
Finally, I was hoping that you haven't seen Matrix before and you'll react on it. Great reaction, thx. Room 303 is the same from the start, when Trinity was there, that's how agent Smith knew. You can react on Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions too.
I don't know that I've ever laughed so much at any reaction; you being hopelessly lost at so many different points and then putting it all together was wonderful to see.
The screen where Neo did the ≤ctrl>X looks like a telnet session.
As far as my understanding goes, Neo has the ability to see the code in real time and edit it from inside the Matrix as if he was a code developer.
I love how you ask questions out loud, knowing that the answers will come eventually.
The best movie humans have made. While we aren't in a computer simulation, our perceived reality is a fake world. A dream world. The Matrix took inspiration from the philosophical concept Plato's Cave.
who knows we probably do live in a matrix world created by AI
the insane coincidence that you are watching matrix while also talking about AI art is blowing my mind right now. Earlier today I came across what probably is the same AI you used to generate those images and its called Midjourney. For the better part of the day, me and a few buddies added the bot to my discord server and have been experimenting with the AI and what it can produce is simply unexplainable. Today was the day I marveled at the infinite possibility of AI. Excited but also dubious of the future as we continue to develop this technology. Great reaction by the way, Matrix has always been a favourite franchise of mine
I’m trying to remember if you should watch the next two movie before, but if you’re interested in the lore and how the world became what it is, The Animatrix answers pretty much all questions
I can’t believe you haven’t watched this movie. It’s a classic. 😄
I agreed with you on he heights scene, it still give me anxiety to watch neo out side the window of the skyscraper. also great catch on the copper top reference. it took me a while to get that
I like that the oricle offers cookies, basically asks you to accept cookies like a website. Blew my mind
Just about the first encounter with Neo. The guy at the door asking if he's okay, saying he looks whiter than normal is because the computer spoke to him. It was an odd encounter, so he "looked like he saw a ghost"
I like that you caught the coppertop Battery reference in that car scene first go around ... I certainly didnt... bravo!
“Scientist were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
- Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)
The amount cinema, music, and pop culture this guy is naive to is truly impressive
Mr Smith's 'Humanity Is A Virus" argument is something one can debate ad infinitum but, despite what he says, this is exactly true of ALL living things. Given the oppurtunity and the resources, all life forms strive to expand past boundaries. To borrow a line from a certain other movie, "Life Finds A Way."
The Matrix isn't really about AI or the technical arrangement of things or powers, but about seeing past our own perceptions. The Matrix has us all. Anyone can be The One. The Oracle never said Neo wasn't the one, only that "You already know what I'm going to tell you." She had to goof on him a little bit and pretend she didn't already know the plot of the whole movie so Neo could arrive at the final realization by himself (but also with her help in the same way she 'tricked' him into knocking over the vase). You can't just TELL someone they're The One as if that alone somehow grants the epistemological knowing of being The One. Just TELLING someone they're in the Matrix when it's a demonstrable fact doesn't wake them up to it. The little kid with the spoon could elucidate on this concept, intellectually, and Neo understood it, that his own perception of the world was bending, not the spoon itself, that there was no spoon to bend (a one to one of the Buddhist concept of Void). And when Neo BELIEVED he could defeat an Agent, a seemingly impossible task, he did it. But to be The One requires something more than intellectually understanding of a concept like Neo's spoon or unshakable belief like Morpheus had in Neo. It requires something transcendental. There are lots of words for this transcendental realm, moksha, the dao, enlightenment, the beatific vision -- but that's only 'code' -- just words. Telling you about it is as about as useful as The Oracle just telling Neo was The One.
This might sound heavy and really existential but it really isn't. What could you do in day to day life if you freed your mind from its previous conventions of what is really possible?
Is there a way you could up the opacity a little bit? It's tough to see anything like this, I know it's because of copyright issues and stuff but damn.. Other reactors don't struggle this much 😬
Have always wondered why some reactors are able to show more. Has this reactor got on the wrong side of the YT rules? 🤔
@@mikelarsen5836 idk 🤷♂️
If I remember correctly, the initial thought that led to this movie, is who can we create a world where superheros with special powers are possible?
The reason everyone who has ever fought an agent has died, is not only are they fast and tough, but even if you kill it's body, it can just take over another one and keep doing so until it gets you. You notice that everytime the spawn into a new body the have a fully loaded gun with them.
@2:15 He is not using an os with desktop environment / gui (these shortcuts are standard in those for very long time, but simple terminals behave differently, for example in linux distros you terminate running command with ctrl + c).
“Unfortunately no one can be told what The Matrix is, you have to see it for yourself” -Morpheus
It takes watching this movie many times to notice all that is happening to Neo. Go back to when the Oracle gave him a "cookie". She is a program created to collect information used to create the current version of the Matrix. After it was implemented, she became obsolete and should have returned to the source for deletion. She chose to hide out and assist the humans for her own survival. Neo's death at the hand of Smith is nothing more than shutting down and restarting a computer after updating it. Trinity unknowingly carried a code that was transferred to Neo with the kiss. This completed his becoming the One. The movie is a fully packed masterpiece! I'm looking forward to your reviews of the sequels.
She doesn't transfer a code, it's more the fact that the kiss is physical so it reminds Neo that the Matrix isn't realy and it's just in his head. That the reality is that Trinity is kissing him in the real world. And it's a little bit "true love's kiss" of Disney movies.
Yo, I NEVER caught that Switch calling Neo “coppertop” was such a huge hint bc she was calling him a battery!! I’m so glad you called that out bc I’ve seen this film multiple times over 20 years and never caught it.
As for AI art, it’s all based on composites of REAL artists’ work-in other words, stolen art. So I don’t recommend using any services based on AI because all the art, music, and writing the AI algorithm uses is gathered from content that real people made and posted online, but their work is being used for the AI without their knowledge, consent, or permission.
The first movie is a great stand alone and I think a lot of people dislike the sequels because it subverts the ending of this one. This is basically a superhero movie by the end. But, I really loved seeing more about the world and the details surrounding The One. As others have said, 2 and 3 are basically one movie so don't wait too long between them.
There were so many bullet time memes and references in other movies after this! You might remember one in Scary Movie. lol
About Morpheus breaking his chains.
It's not about having special abilities.
Remember the jump program?
Your strength and speed is directly associated with your ability to reject the matrix. To KNOW and believe that it isn't real.
The longer you are in the matrix the more your brain accepts it as reality.
When morpheus was beaten by the agent, his mind and willpower took the blow. It's hard to reject something that isn't real when it sure as hell feels real and is kicking your ass lol.
When Morpheus saw Neo "accepting" what he is meant to do, it reminded Morpheus of the mission.
It snapped him out of the "hold" that the matrix can have on you.
Your reaction has me scream laughing! I was in 9th grade amazed by this movie back when it was released
Quick note. The idea of the body making what happens in the mind "real" is not new. Examples include stigmata, biofeedback, voluntary or involuntary immune system depression, heartbreak (heart attacks caused by severe grief), etc. The movie kind of takes that to an extreme, but it's still plausible.
Contrary to popular belief, nihilism,existentialism and postmodernism are different philosophies and this franchise explores all three as well as radical skepticism,Gnostic and Catholic Christianity,Zen Buddhism,Judaism and antirationalism. This film was very influential on how I think about authority and reality.Also , the directors confirmed that the film was most likely subconsciously their way of coming to terms with their trans identity.
You're pretty much dead on with that taxes matrix analogy. There's a reason the Matrix is money green in tone. cheers for the reaction, very enjoyable
The trilogy is great. A real philosophical deep dive on a lot of things. It's not always easy to digest, but it's fascinating if you have some patience. I would say 2 and 3 get maybe a little too philosophical for a lot of people.
But all that side, nothing beats the first movie in terms of presentation. The way you are introduced and the world unfolds is so interesting. It's almost cliche these days now. People talk about the matrix in pop culture. But trying to put myself back in 1999, watching this for the first time, it's a real trip.
No intro talking ,reaction in first 10 seconds. Like and respect
to give you a bit of context to help with understanding agents, they are basically the shrodinger cat, they are both there and not there, every person is an agent while not being an agent, you don't 'kill' an agent when you kill the host body they inhabit, the persona of the 'agent' is just forced out of the host body (because it is dead) and they have to take over another consciousness in order to reappear in the 'world' as it were.
I was there opening night when Morpheus gave that now famous “prison for your mind” speech. And now, all these years later, it hits me. We accept what Morpheus says because (now) we know it’s true (in the movie). But that opening night, it’s a guy offering another guy pills talking about a conspiracy theory in a vacant building.
CTRL-X to cut is used in an OS such as Windows. But Neo wasn't using Windows, so CTRL-X could be used to exit a process.
Agent Smith. One of the best movie villains. Up there with Hans Gruber.
It was the same room from the start of the movie, agent Smith knew the land line he was running to was in that room.
I still love this movie and enjoy watching it. But the funny thing is, as I got older I found I disagreed with agent Smith's take on humans. He says that every mammal develops an instinctual equilibrium with it's surroundings. And when I first saw it, I agreed and accepted his idea equating us with a virus. But now, I think he is wrong. NO mammal has that relationship. It's the predator/prey relationship that maintains that balance. I used to live in, rural, Michigan. Out in the country, white-tailed deer were overrunning the countryside, because they had no predators, outside hunters. Their hers grew so numerous that they were doing real damage to the local farmer's crops. The state had to go from doubling the number of deer hunting licenses to, eventually, allowing unlimited licenses to thin the population. Any species can go out of control in the right circumstances. Now, granted, humans are the worst, because we, pretty much, removed ourselves from the natural food chain. We don't have any natural predators anymore, except disease and ourselves.
To be fair about the closing comments where you say "the ending was to be expected", when first seeing Captain America, or seeing Iron Man, Ip Man, and many other you know what you are going to ultimately get. Though this movie isn't called Neo they clue you in on where we are going but bring us there with good story, film, production, and integration of new/innovative technology for the time.
I love that this movie still feels fresh a quarter century later. I love when I get to see people watch it for the first time. I love that regardless of the holes in the story to reality the story brings us to such an area of imagination that those holes do not matter.
IMO, if you choose to ever watch the following movies in the series that you go into them with simply the goal to experience a story on it's own that happens to live within the same space. To many IMO are so keen to try and pick them apart to find more holes rather than jumping into the pool fresh to experience a story told in film
Hugo Weaving (Smith) was a really outstanding Bad Guy in all of these films
and also plays V in V for Vendetta
I know movies aren't always a good way to predict the future (although they can portray a potential future)
Did you ever see Strange Days, Sci Fi movie thrilled with memory implants, very strange, possibly not Good? But definitely provocative (I was not helped by first watching it in German with limited understanding)
PLEASE, PLEASE! Watch the Second Renaissance, it is a separately made animated short film that explains how the world got to this point, and I believe you would absolutely love it.
2:15 neo was not using windows the operating system he actually made custom himself but pretty sure ctrl-x would close out of the program that was running.
Every street named is a street in Chicago (including the intersection: State and Balboa), even though primary filming was done Sydney, New South Wales Australia; Nashville, TN; and San Francisco, CA. I think there was a subway map that was from Chicago as well.
So... Imo. And I didn't come up with this concept. I had a wonderful philosophy teacher around the time this came out. He acknowledged the parallels between this movie and the Bible. If I can remember a few...
Neo = The One... Self explanatory
Zion = Heaven or Holy Land
His rebirth from death... Obviously a reference to Jesus, who wasn't the first story to speak of it.
And one I found very interesting is the man that sabotaged them was named Cipher...
Possibly inspired by whom we all know as Lu"cifer"
Thanks for the reaction, it's interesting to see a reaction completely out of its era, ie 1999. The Matrix came out as I was studying to become a software developer. And I watched it just after studying the famous Plato's Allegory of the Cave, exactly what's depicted in the Matrix. I never really understood the mind and the belief part in the movie, thanks to my mother's education, I was not conditioned by any organized religions (which are also a perfect example of the matrix, living in the comfort of lies). This is the kind of movie that makes you really think outside of the box.
Thank you bro for reacting this masterpiece The Matrix starring by Keanu Reeves as neo. Don't forget reacts the sequels The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions and The Matrix Resurrections
The Agent knew what room he was running to at the end because it was the same building and room Trinity was in at the beginning.
I never understood the mind creating damage in the body also. It didn’t make sense, but it didn’t hurt the movie for me neither.
@2:26 I'm a high 32 year old computer nerd and thought you should know this: On one of those black screens, or a terminal as it's finally becoming standardized as, Ctrl+C will close the currently running process rather than copy text. Ctrl+Z sends a much more aggressive close command as well. Ctrl+X likely does too, I could look this up, but I'd guess he's trying to close whatever is typing.
A good use case is running a command that should give you feedback in seconds, or faster, and it taking longer than expected to run. Ctrl+C, close it, get some feedback on what went wrong and you can drive your terminal again instead of the program locking you up.
around 17:00 mark: the whole purpose of the IRS was to collect tax from "income" to pay the loans from the Federal Reserve Bank, a private bank owned by non-Americans. The SCOTUS said that income was exclusively profits from corporate endeavors, not wages earned; that's where the all caps names on our documents come from, so we can be taxed like corporations. The women's movement was actually started because 51% of the population wasn't working, which meant they weren't paying taxes.
Just sayin'.
The best version of how this world got to where it is: The Animatrix. Fantastic animated shorts.
16:45 - That is exactly why she called him "Copper Top" in the car...
Interesting fact: This is the first movie made on DVD
No, DVD players released in USA in March of 1997. Twister and Mars Attacks were the 1st movies released on DVD in 1997. This movie came out in 1999.
MANY movies came before "The Matrix" on DVD by over 2 years ahead! In reality, it becomes a bit difficult to claim which movie was first put on DVD unless you are a bit more specific.
The first movie in the US to be commercially released on DVD was "Twister" by Jan de Bont. Other movies like: A Time to Kill, Blade Runner, Eraser, Goodfellas, Interview with the Vampire, The Road Warrior, Se7en, The Birdcage, The Bridges of Madison County, The Fugitive, The Mask, The Wizard of Oz, Unforgiven, Woodstock were released with the first DVD players in Japan BEFORE DVDs hit the domestic U.S. market.
Blues Brothers! Having said this... saw the Matrix opening night on LSD and we were soooo confused when his mouth disappeared!
Neo does not cut or paste. These are keyboard shortcuts in the Linux console. Probably SIGINT to abort the current process.
I think you'll find this really interesting! This film was part of my media studies at school!
It's one of the only films where they break the 180 degree rule of fighting o camera! Because its supposed to be confusing and give off the feel of being superhuman!
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"You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it."
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Around 23 minutes 50 seconds of the video, you're asking what the Oracle was looking for when she told Neo to "say ah" and checked his palms here. you're asking if she was looking to do a physical. She wasn't looking for anything. she already knew what the situation was. The issue is, neo stands in the way of ultimate truth because of his preconceived ideas of what truth should look like if it presents itself, which is why the Oracle says "Not what you are expecting, right?" when she first meets him in the kitchen. Because Neo has his own conceived ideas of how truth presents itself, he has conditioned himself not to be able to see the actual truth, so instead of telling neo plainly what he needs to hear, she goes through the motions to behave how neo thinks she should act because he will not receive what is ultimately true based on what *he thinks* he knows, because that's all he's conditioned to receive. A person cannot receive what they're not ready to receive, and we see this in the third matrix film when neo asks the oracle "Why didn't you tell me about the architect?" The Oracle said "it wasn't time for you to know". Neo said "who said it wasn't time?" And she said " You know who", as she motioned him to look at the plaque at the of the kitchen which says *"know thyself".* And she told him that he had decided on his own that he was not ready to hear it.
this applies to how we interpret this film, because we typically interpret the film based on Technology and AI literally when that isn't what the film is about, or we interpret it based on conspiracy theories in society, which applies, but is not ultimately what the film is about, although it does play a strong role even if though it's not the core message.
If you want human-machine war background then watch "The Animatrix: The Second Renaissance" (part 1 and 2).
This is a Cyberpunk classic.
The book was for a people watching and paying attention. To get a chuckle.