Free will and fate

Rating: Null/10 (5 February 2017)

At the turn of the century, a software developer named Thomas A. Anderson (Keanu Reeves) works for a major software company during the day. At night, he is the hacker known as Neo. A fellow hacker, Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), seeks him out and helps him get in touch with a known terrorist, Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne). Morpheus shows Neo the real world, which is some time in the far future after AI had taken over. He shows him that he was grown in a field to be a battery for the machines. Morpheus believes Neo can save humanity from the machines. Neo learns how to fight back and goes to see the oracle (Gloria Foster). The oracle tells him what he needs to hear. Then an upset crew member betrays them. He wanted to forget this world and be back in to the matrix. Morpheus got caught by the agents which are extremely powerful software programs. Neo and Trinity go back into the matrix to save him. In the process, Neo starts to break the rules of the matrix and do things which seemed impossible. He is able to survive death and destroy Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), which no one has ever done before. He becomes the one in the process. One theme of the matrix was free will and fate. There were a lot of choices in the film. Neo had to choose to stay in or go out, to trust trinity or not, to take the red pill or the blue, to walk through the door to see the oracle or not, and to save Morpheus or save his own life. The movie will sometimes shoot the scenes from different angles to emphasize choice. One scene of this would be when they zoom in on Morpheus's sunglasses. It shows one sun glass with the red pill and the other with the blue. It also shows Neo's hand reaching for one of them. The movie also uses lighting to show choices as well. There is a scene before that, in which Neo has to decide if he wants to trust Trinity. When she asks his to decide the movie pans to her and the screen brightens a little. Then, the movie pans to a dark rainy ally. He has to choose if he wants to go back to his miserable life or to leave that life with her. While Neo was given different choices, he also was destined for things he couldn't choose. Neo was also fated to be loved by Trinity. Morpheus chose him to be the One and save all of humanity. There seems to be a mix of destiny and choices and each shape the other.