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Im with Jaxx and Fun365. Oh, and I am a film critic, didnt spend 3 years studying cinema for nothing...
The basic thing you have to understand is this- the Wachowski brothers spend as long as they wanted writing, preparing and eventually directing The Matrix- a fantastic, innovative and thoroughly well thought out film from start to finish. It has so much fantastic stuff in it, from the religious symbolism (Neo is after all, the One, the saviour of humanity) to the great references to the duality of man and the rather fragile state of the human psyche. Its a Freudian wet dream. And due to it being such a great hit, some rich guys in Hollywood offered the Wachowski brothers 20 million dollars each. Per sequel. And so now we find ourselves with a trilogy, something The Matrix was never meant to be. And how can I prove this???? Simple, if you watch The Matrix you will see it has a finality. Agent Smith is destroyed, not just defeated. Neo actually destroys his program in the finale. Oh, and Neo actually exists. The Oracle says to Thomas Anderson 'you have the gift, but you are waiting for something... the next life maybe...'
One of the Agents kills Thomas Anderson in the finale, he actually kills him. Only then does Neo exist- Neo is the one, a superhuman reincarnation of Thomas Anderson, who until this point in the film has been wrestling for control of himself. Thomas Anderson is merely a construct of The Matrix, not who Keanu Reeves' character really is. With this in mind, there is no competition, no question left at the end of The Matrix. The One, Neo, is here. And The Matrix is something he controls with his will. Please note the ease with which he polishes off the agents at the end of the film. Who, I ask, who could possibly pose a threat to this man's safety. Neo IS god within the matrix, thats the point of the film.
The others are, as a few others put it, just there for the fun of it. Even the genre of the fims changed, the feel, the mise en scene. They are completely different. And they are bad from a cinematic point of view. Does anyone else think they made it all a little too Star Wars????
The Matrix, just so we are clear, is a horror film. It is not Sci-Fi.
Ta ta for now
Steve
The basic thing you have to understand is this- the Wachowski brothers spend as long as they wanted writing, preparing and eventually directing The Matrix- a fantastic, innovative and thoroughly well thought out film from start to finish. It has so much fantastic stuff in it, from the religious symbolism (Neo is after all, the One, the saviour of humanity) to the great references to the duality of man and the rather fragile state of the human psyche. Its a Freudian wet dream. And due to it being such a great hit, some rich guys in Hollywood offered the Wachowski brothers 20 million dollars each. Per sequel. And so now we find ourselves with a trilogy, something The Matrix was never meant to be. And how can I prove this???? Simple, if you watch The Matrix you will see it has a finality. Agent Smith is destroyed, not just defeated. Neo actually destroys his program in the finale. Oh, and Neo actually exists. The Oracle says to Thomas Anderson 'you have the gift, but you are waiting for something... the next life maybe...'
One of the Agents kills Thomas Anderson in the finale, he actually kills him. Only then does Neo exist- Neo is the one, a superhuman reincarnation of Thomas Anderson, who until this point in the film has been wrestling for control of himself. Thomas Anderson is merely a construct of The Matrix, not who Keanu Reeves' character really is. With this in mind, there is no competition, no question left at the end of The Matrix. The One, Neo, is here. And The Matrix is something he controls with his will. Please note the ease with which he polishes off the agents at the end of the film. Who, I ask, who could possibly pose a threat to this man's safety. Neo IS god within the matrix, thats the point of the film.
The others are, as a few others put it, just there for the fun of it. Even the genre of the fims changed, the feel, the mise en scene. They are completely different. And they are bad from a cinematic point of view. Does anyone else think they made it all a little too Star Wars????
The Matrix, just so we are clear, is a horror film. It is not Sci-Fi.
Ta ta for now
Steve
