“The Matrix” is a fantastic movie. I don’t have a favorite movie because they are a lot that I really like, and it is very difficult to decide which is my favorite one, but this movie is one of them and I would like to talk about it. The movie is about the nature of reality, it is based in Plato´s “Allegory of the Cavern”; according to this parable, we live in a material world in which we understand and know through our senses, but there are the “ideas” which can be comprehended through reasoning and this constitutes the fundamental kind of reality, the true world. The Wachowsky Brothers only customized a story for this theme, and there are many things that make the movie great, although they are also some bad things to be said.
First of all, I consider Matrix as one of my favorite movies because of the story (the beginning is really intriguing), maybe the story of the guy who lives alone as a hacker and then becomes the messiah of the world wasn’t very interesting, but the context in which the world is described: we live in a virtual-simulated world (Matrix) created by machines to keep us docile so that they can us our bodies to create their energy. That´s why I love this movie, this wacky idea of machines taking control of the world to use us as their batteries, I think is just great. This simple fact makes the movie one of my favorite ones, I think it has a lot of details that may be improved, but while watching the beginning I was really intrigued, even though I must admit that the first time I watched it I didn´t fully undertand it. I consider “The Matrix” one of the best sci-fi movies ever done; it may turn into an action movie were the bad guys chase the good guys and they is like the whole Police Department against Neo, who doesn’t receive one of the million bullets shot during the movie. This may be taken as something bad, but it may be also good becasue it makes the movie even more interesting and you can´t stop watching it.
In the second place, a very important thing I would like to mention is the influence that the movie had. “The Matrix” has a very numerous and vast literal and philosophical influence, as I said before the movie is based in Plato´s “Allegory of the Cavern”, but it resembles a lot of reflections from many different ideologies from different philosophers and even religions, that makes this movie even more interesting. Most of these reflections are about the power of the mind and the importance of reasoning and I think during the movie Morpheus resume it in one sentence - The body cannot live without the mind-. This combination of metaphors introduced into an action movie makes it really cool, because you are thinking while watching an action movie, this makes it an absorbing movie.
Finally, one of the movie´s characteristic for which it became worldwide known and even won an Academy Award, the special effects. You can´t remember the movie without imagining people walking through the walls, staying like ten second in the air, jumping buildings and dodging bullets. Many people like this movie because of its visual effect, and it really is great-looking throughout the whole movie, but that´s not it, I think it is just a bonus; it avoids people getting bored and the animations and special effects make you visualize the region in which the movie take place, maybe in the virtual world, fighting Kung Fu or in the sewer of the real world where you are chase by giant machines with the form of octopuses. I think the second and the third Matrix movies are not as good as the first one, maybe they just focus in the visual effects, but I think that as in many trilogies, the first one is the best one.
Finally, one of the movie´s characteristic for which it became worldwide known and even won an Academy Award, the special effects. You can´t remember the movie without imagining people walking through the walls, staying like ten second in the air, jumping buildings and dodging bullets. Many people like this movie because of its visual effect, and it really is great-looking throughout the whole movie, but that´s not it, I think it is just a bonus; it avoids people getting bored and the animations and special effects make you visualize the region in which the movie take place, maybe in the virtual world, fighting Kung Fu or in the sewer of the real world where you are chase by giant machines with the form of octopuses. I think the second and the third Matrix movies are not as good as the first one, maybe they just focus in the visual effects, but I think that as in many trilogies, the first one is the best one.
I consider “The Matrix” as one of my favorite movies because its story, its influence and special effects (Visual and Sound). These may be the three main points of why I like so much this movie; the ability of the Wachowsky Brothers of creating an action-entertaining movie in a very interesting philosophical one. They exploded all the elements they had in order to make a film to be remembered.
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