Even so, there are still many places in the trilogy that I don't understand. In fact, the most incomprehensible part is about Neo's superpowers in the real world. If Zion is virtual, then the same machine city is also virtual? Judging from the "Renaissance of the Machine", the director did not want to play with this concept of multiple virtuality. If Zion is not virtual, then why does Neo have superpowers since then? Some people say that Neo is actually a robot, so how do you explain Neo waking up from the red capsule? Some people say that the machine gave him superpowers. Could it be that this has become a magic movie? None of the various explanations on the Internet is clear. If there is an expert, please enlighten me.
But looking at this animated version, it's easier to understand the sixth time. If you don’t understand it, it’s not the director, but I’m stupid. Let me talk about my feelings one by one.
1. Ultimate Battle] [The final flight of the Osiris 4.0 star
Screenplay: Wachowski Brothers
Director: Andy Jones
Running time: 26 minutes
This short style is basically probably consistent with the original film. As a supplement to the original work, it describes the situation of the group of personnel who notified the Zion robot army of the attack. Whether it was the two engaged in striptease or the scene where the heroine jumped around later, it was very sultry. Fortunately, the short film did not fall into clichés. The group of people completed the task but sacrificed all of them. The first second is still training lovingly, the next second is no longer alive. The overall picture is wonderful, and the picture effect is excellent. If you have to pick the disappointment, then I am afraid that this animation is too much like a live-action version, and the animation itself has very few features.
2. [machine] revival Second Renaissance 3.5 star
Screenplay: Wachowski Brothers
Director: Maeda macro
Running time: 8 minutes
This film is to supplement the historical background of the original work and describes how human society has transformed into a machine society. If the amount of movie watching is enough, it will not be too shocking to its content, so it is understandable that some people call it chicken ribs. However, it also has the need to exist without taste, at least it can make the original film not appear too isolated. There are many ideas in editing and art, and it is more documentary than documentary, but the too detailed description somewhat limits the audience's imagination of the Matrix world. The described history seems logically feasible, but the propositions such as "robots have their own ideas" and "human bioelectricity as energy for robots" are still worthy of further discussion.
3. [virtual] Program 4.5 Star program
screenplay: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Running time: 7 minutes
even though I personally do not like those elements of traditional Japanese culture, but this video is still attractive to me full. It connects tradition and postmodernity better than movies. Two people fight a game in ancient Japan, but the male protagonist oppresses the female protagonist’s psychological weakness step by step in his mind. "When people know the truth, which one is more important, the truth or feeling" becomes tricky. In reality, most people tend to choose the latter, because the enjoyment in this world is more meaningful in their lives. This has to remind me of my doubts about the whole world when I was a child, always thinking about "Is this world real", "Is there a pair of eyes paying attention to my behavior all the time" and other issues. But now? As I gradually integrate into social life, eating, dressing, work and entertainment are the only issues within reach, and those questions have become unimportant.
Fortunately, the heroine did not choose to escape the truth, everything was just a dream. There is such an outstanding drama in 7 minutes that has to be admired.
4. [world record] World Record 4.5 star
Screenplay: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Director: Takeshi Koike
Running time: 8 minutes
I really like this short film. It has a distinctive style and full of tension. As a track and field athlete, it is more appropriate to express this kind of willpower during the individual pursuit of "freedom after breaking through the cage". The moments of the athletes running are interspersed with images of agents, female reporters, fathers, etc., which combine the willpower during the run with the determination made before the run, bringing the audience to a climax step by step. 8.77 is just a number that represents a miracle to all living beings, but it is a naked resistance to the entire Matrix. Until the end of the short story, when the surveillance personnel thought that he was no longer a threat in the wheelchair, he stood up, and the sentence "freedom" broke through the walls of Matrix's entire system, majestic and tragic.
5. [story] juvenile Kid's Story 4.0 star
Screenplay: Wachowski Brothers
Director: Shinichiro Watanabe
Running time: 26 minutes
This boy is inside "The Matrix" two and three inside that "Mourinho fans." Mobile phone, escape, all the shadow of Neo in the first part is in it. As for how the young boy entered the grave and escaped from the Matrix in the end, it didn't matter to him, the whole escape process was really cool. Especially in the scene of high-speed movement, the distortion of the scene and the characters suits my appetite. The flashback technique is not irritating, but the blue sky, white clouds, flying birds, and falling scenes are very beautiful and worth repeating. People interpret the cause of death of the deceased teenager as schizophrenia, and people have to think about whether this is a portrayal of our reality?
6 [detective story] Detective Story 5.0 star
Screenplay / Director: Shinichiro Watanabe
Running time: 9 minutes
This [Detective's Story] cannot be disliked, and it is also my favorite among the eight. From art to narrative perspective to content itself, sad, suspenseful, decadent and handsome. It looks like "Holmes" and "The Seven Deadly Sins", but it is actually a Matrix. "A case that ends all cases", it explains all the boring cases that repeat itself, it answers the detective's doubts about the world, and it solves the detective's fate. Although the detective saw the truth in the end, he failed to make a normal choice. "I'm an old-fashioned", "That's just another case I took." Everyone has his own life, as expected.
[7] Beyond the limits Beyond 4.0 star
Screenplay: Koji Morimoto
Director: Koji Morimoto
Running time: 13 minutes
[beyond the limits] has a unique taste of Japanese animation, one can see under the hot sun busy streets and crowds overwhelmed, It reminds me of the "Digimon" I watched as a child. Being broken in the plot does not obliterate the charming atmosphere of this short film. A bug in Matrix is a paradise for the children inside. There is no time and space, no rules, you can see the death, you can see heaven. However, the final repair of the BUG not only restored the order of the city, but also allowed the only remaining miracle to be replaced by the coldness of the city.
[8] matrix of Marticulated 3.5 stars
Screenwriter: Peter Chung
Director: Peter Chung
Running time: 16 minutes
This surely is everyone's least favorite one. Although I think the director has performed well on this kind of "robots' love for people" and "human beings' rejection and panic", it is disgusting to have such a theme, such a style of painting, and such an entanglement. And it is logically a bit confusing. Robots neither have nor do they need hormones, where are the sexual fantasies? "The love of man and machine" is an eternal topic, I am afraid that a short film is difficult to explain. Even though the director tried his best to get rid of the imagery stereotypes of "love between people" from the bizarre and dreamy colors, after all, he still couldn't understand this relationship from a perspective beyond humans. Perhaps this is also the question left at the end of the entire "The Matrix."
There is no doubt that the "The Matrix" series is a blockbuster in film history, and it is worthy of infinite aftertaste by all latecomers. There has never been a movie that made me linger so much. It successfully combines violent aesthetics and philosophical speculation, commercial packaging and artistic connotation, and unparalleled imagination and steady shooting, and it is difficult to find a masterpiece that can match it through the history of film. In this collection of short films, I appreciate the attitude of other directors more than the dirty driver brother himself. They stopped telling an epic poem, but made the entire Matrix really come alive through a little bit of side prying.
"The Matrix" is not just a movie that discusses the proposition of "machines and humans", it can even be used to interpret "1984" and our society today. When we are running, we have to stop and think about the authenticity of the world, what we see and hear, and what we think. Is true freedom behind the lie? Or maybe we don’t need truth.
I would like to watch it again for the seventh time.
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