Welcome to the Real World

Rating: 10/10 (14 July 2006)

''Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself''. This is one of the great sentences of this awesome movie, and also when the real adventure starts; with a great cast,special effects that made a revolution and an excellent story, ''Matrix'' really is one of my favorite movies of all! I am very happy that neither Ewan McGregor and Leonardo Di Caprio were cast to be ''Neo'', because I cannot imagine a better Neo then the one Keanu played.
One of the things I love about this movie, is all the discussions and the ideas said through metaphors that are applied to our present society as well as many references to famous literary like ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', Things like the government controlling us, the manipulation that almost all people suffer and even values like the world's pollution,religions, and big population that will eventually bring problems or even the destruction of the human race, is discussed in a covered way in the film. (And I need to say, that the debate about what we define as being real or not, is another good thing to make people think about, as well as the information about human behavior, destroying all the living things and multiplying everywhere we go without ''balance''.)
The Computer hacker Thomas Anderson, well known in the web as ''Neo'', lives an ordinary life working in a respected Software Company. The problem is that he has doubts about the life he is living, and sometimes he doesn't know if he is dreaming or awake. When he contacts Morpheus, considered by the authorities as one of the most dangerous man alive and joins his rebel army, Neo finally sees the reality that happened in the world:
More then 150 years in the future,the world has been devastated and controlled by very intelligent machines, who created a fake version of 20th-century life-the "Matrix"-to keep the human slaves satisfied, while the AI machines draw power from them. Neo is considered by Morpheus ''The One'', the guy who will lead the humans to overthrow the machines and reclaim the Earth. But Neo needs to learn a lot of things first, and being haunted by the Matrix 's''agents'' (a computer program that take on human form and infiltrate the Matrix to control everything and kill the rebels) will give him a very hard time.