The Matrix (1999)

Rating: 9/10 (18 December 2013)

"The Matrix is a computer generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change human being into this (a battery)", says Morpheus at the beginning scenes of his appearance in The Matrix. The Matrix (1999) is a clever display featuring the inner reality of a few beings believing they are prisoned in the world of a viciously designed program, a world of numbers which master has designed it perfectly but in which people choose a life of misery and pain, never realizing they are slaves. Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), the leader of those chosen few, has long been searching for the One and sincerely believes in him in a madness kind of way that is ready to sacrifice his life for him and later we find out that he actually does when he tries to keep one of the 3 seemingly immortal and mastermind agents from harming Neo (Keanu Reeves). Neo, according to his profile, is an alias of Thomas A. Anderson, a law abiding program writer for a respectable software company, whose double life is letting him to also be a professional hacker in an underworld criminal society. At first, despite Morpheus's phone guidance, he gets arrested by cops and gets investigated and bugged by the agents but then Morpheus's group comes to rescue him and as in later, so called free him. They make some changes in his body and give him a second birth to become one of them. After all it was his own choice to be in wonderland when he chose red pill over blue one which would ended the story for him. In his waking up in hover craft, Neo asks Morpheus "What is this place?" and he gets answered by a more important question; "When". They don't know what year it exactly is but it's almost 200 years ahead in the future. In the white room inside the computer program, Neo faces with more mind twisting questions like "What is real?" or "How do you define real?" which confuses him even more but are essential to the answer of the question, "What is the Matrix?". What is more intriguing to see in The Matrix is the amazing scenes of works of visual effects which are perfectly mastered under the directorship of the Wachowski Brothers who are also the writers for this feature. However, the screenplay is been written in a way that in order to understand the final mission of Morpheus and his left crew, it seems inevitable to follow the sequel of this trilogy but as a friend who believed this movie has much more to say once told me: "You should read between the lines". As at the end of the movie when Neo is being shot several times by agent Smith for whose willingness to be free, he must get the codes to get inside Zayan, for a moment the happy ending of goodness's triumph over evil gets shadowed by the fact that everything is already falling apart and nothing is going to make things right again in any possible way. But then once again comes the miracle of love and Trinity's whispering to Neo works out by making him realize that he is the One and that Oracle's prophecy of her falling in love with him (the One) has become true and that brings him back to life; like Sleeping Beauty (1959) a kiss on the lips  and goodness triumphs evil.