• ⇤
• ⇽
• ≡
• ⇾
• ⇥

movie review - The Matrix

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is a classic science fiction movie from twenty years ago, before financial crises, calamitous presidencies, and terrorist strikes at the heart of the global financial industry. It's the one that gave us red-pill/blue-pill, "the matrix", and scenes of dodging bullets mid-flight. There's a lot of tight leather and sunglasses and posturing.

The plot is this: a hacker is plying his trade when he's contacted by some absurdly dressed individuals with a mysterious agenda. He's quickly led into a new world that shows him that his reality is a beautiful illusion created by a computer system. They ask him to fight the power and both in-matrix and out he does so. He's .. the chosen one. You can't take it all too seriously, especially when the "why" question is that the computers are using our brains as a power source.

Strongly recommended. For Sci-Fi action fans. Unlike the sequels, which the kids couldn't sit through.