Under The Yoke of a New World Order!

Rating: 9/10 (13 May 2007)

The Motion Picture "The Matrix" perhaps should be spelled matrice because that is what this film is using to tell the story of one Thomas Anderson(played by Keanu Reeves) who works for a top software computing company.It seems early into "The Matrix" Thomas Anderson has two lives,one as already stated with the added comment that he helps his land lady take out the garbage and the other life is involved with computing and the internet whereby Thomas Anderson goes by the hacker alias "Neo"and is guilty of committing about as many crimes as there are on computing and the internet.The definition of a Matrix is a switch which is a device "that allows multiple channels connected via serial interfaces to connect under operator control to designated remote or local analog circuits."It is while at his computer keyboard on a given evening that Neo is contacted directly by way of his own personal computer.How this is in fact accomplished is never clear however it is made even more implausible as Neo is not even on the computing network legally as his hacking proclivities would stand more a chance of being discovered.Yet that is exactly what occurs though that discovery is arranged by a notorious individual in Morpheus(played by Laurence Fishburne) with stalwart and even inspirational keyboardest in Trinity.Trinity wishes to meet with Neo and it is Trinity who has the capacity real or otherwise to write to the construct with an ability to actually break into a virtually invisible and undetectable space and land in Neo's lap.This occurs at a point in time when a knock occurs at his apartment door with a deal about to go down which though innocuous is not about drugs per se though drugs do enter into the general conversation(it is the only way to fly) it is about a specially written or/either stolen piece of computer data(on disk)and is purchased for some $2,000.00.Neo it would seem is living up to his name and indeed even by todays standards that is a talent only a few perhaps have the ability to achieve.Neo is a hacker who when a moment ago prior to the arrival of the these persons he was informed by way of his computer to follow the White Rabbit.A female who is partnered with the purchaser of the computer disk shows her shoulder to Neo to only expose a tattoo of a white rabbit and due to this coincidence he decides to go out though he has work the following morning.He somehow meets Trinity and it is here that it is discovered that Trinity is a girl and indeed Trinity is played by Carrie-Ann Moss.She warns him that they are looking for you and Neo asks who is.The film provides a cardboard characteristic perhaps more the equal to an animated construct as an air of a constructed set is bally-hooed with most of the picture being given imaginative as well as staid staging that provide for an effect as a construct which may actually be required as part of the purport of this film.The message however is that Thomas Anderson is about to jump ship permanently and bare the hacker alias Neo for the rest of time.The film leaves no doubt as to how all of this is to transpire with the matrix as well as telecommunications being made to be the transporter of the very physical presence that the film is named after.The real problem that this film will not shy away from,is that there is in the construct a reported illusion to an authority that is not real but artificial and indeed the film proceeds to be transported through telephone lines while evolving to a crusade to free themselves from the arrival of an artificially constructed cyborg entity,"Agents".The agents are in fact hardwired to the construct and represent the gatekeeper ideology.They guard all the gates.It is not new territory,this territory as to telecommunications and though not new it is as well not new to be concerned with an artificial intelligence as the evolution of the computer has been for many years concerned with these very areas.The arrival though as to the claim of actual Agents(lead Agent played by Hugo Weaving)whereby they materialize as if residing or embedded in a matrix only environment for purposes of enforcement using the bodies of the citizenry is to underscore something unusual.The film provides for something as to the truth and the admission that there exists the real presence of an overseer whose authority is unmitigated by circumstance and whose power will not relent.We are in effect under the yoke of a tyrant and the communications of the 20th century has given witness to this rise of a foreign power as well as an artificial intelligence.They are in fact the same thing and we don't have to wait one hundred years as it is here now and has been here for at least some 50 to perhaps 75 years.It is well to understand that behavior has mass market appeal with films providing a virtual backyard to convey as films such as these do.The mass market appeal is likened to a cash register for what is more powerful than to control the wealth of the world,it would be to have power over it.The very clear and precise arguments as to abuse with power over others continually creeps into the picture time and time again allowing for an inability to get out from under the treachery of an overseer.It is this challenge that eventually materializes into the films most engaging scenes as Morpheus,Neo,Trinity all weigh in against the construct with real world rock-em-sock-em fight scenes.Though this is but something of an abbreviation,the climax as to the Matrix is worthy of mention as a kiss is well earned and if true love ever had a chance it won this one hands down.I've watched this more than once to learn as much about the construct as to learn about the film.