Great Film

Rating: Null/10 (12 July 2001)

This film shows something that not many films attempt. What struck me the most is that they dealt the pure enigma of life and fate as a whole. Despite the lack of story and the countless meaningless action, they replaced it well with the meaning of the film. This movie showed something that I can figure, not many people noticed. They completely flipped reality as a whole upside down, but the directors knew that this would be a hard task. So they incorporated truth behind the complexity. I know that I might be digging too deep within this film, but from watching interviews of the directors and listening to what the actors were saying. I feel that they made this film to show, not just comic book action, but to pretty much show how abstract this world can be, despite what we think about it. It was made to show how the human mind is a such a fragile yet powerful thing. Despite our knowledge and our own thought of superiority in this universe, in the end, our ignorance got the best of us. This film demonstrated that well, and despite having Keanu Reeves as Neo, he was probably the only person that could have played that part well. What struck me, was how they demonstrated the use of the mind. Alot of people crave meaning and answers behind alot of the metaphysical uses in the film, but the directors did a good job in just saying that the mind is the answer behind all reality and answers. These demonstrations that were being projected in the film, were their for a reason, not just random pointless scenes. My favorite scene in the film is when Neo watches the little bald-headed girl bend the spoon with her mind. Neo than attempted this next, and she then told him something that was the answer behind the entire film and the answers Neo had been looking for. She told him that that it is not the spoon he should attempt to bend, but his mind. After she said that, the meaning of the whole film unfolded for me. The point I feel behind that saying, was that we should see through the cracks of reality as we know it, and look to where it all is... our minds.

That is why I feel this film ventured places that not many films have gone and why I think it is a great film