Film Components in The Matrix

Her costume consists of a long black dress with a black veil, providing the audience with only short glimpses of her pale face. The use of black clothing allows the ghostly character to go unseen whilst in the presence of other characters, and to hide behind dark shadows.

Indeed, they are used to add to the aesthetics of the scene; but it can be argued that the colours of these costumes have somewhat of a significance. We notice that Broken Sword and Flying Snow are both dressed in blue garments, whereas Nameless is dressed in black. In China, the colour blue can suggest calmness- once again, referring to the peaceful and serene mourning of Flying Snow’s death. Nameless, dressed in black, expresses a certain mystery surrounding his persona, as Chinese culture suggests that black represents secrecy, something that is happening in the

The Matrix is a film about the enslavement of humankind by artificial intelligence, sentient beings, with mechanical bodies, created by people to service humanity, and the discovery of a person, Neo, that possesses abilities that can defeat the Artificial Intelligence and manumit humanity. The majority of human beings have their consciousness/minds trapped within the Matrix, a computer simulated world in which their minds are born, live in, and die, while their bodies are connected to it via cerebral connection but, remain in a dormant slumber and are never used. While they are connected to the matrix, their bioelectricity is harvested, powering the artificial intelligence. Neo, with the help of Morpheus (the leader in the resistance

The camera moved in a slow pace while in circulation motion. This is a general term for all the manipulations of the film strip by the camera in the movie. This happened when Neo dodged the bullets by bending backwards before smith shoot him in the side of the leg. The blue colour represent “the real world” of Zion and also symbolise the body. The yellow colour appear in the matrix world and represent the spirit and even Heaven. The green colour that appear which is the colour of the matrix and it also indicate the mind. In this new axis-switched medium close-up, we see more of Neo's face and less of Trinity's face. We see that in terms of profile and as well as the darkness. Neo was now more on-axis with the camera and is lit brighter. The display features of special frame that allows the skirt of the coat to flare a little just as it does on screen. In these film, they used mise-en-scene dominantly to build mystery within the pill scene. Regular cinematography, editing, and dramatic sound effects were also used, to captivate the audience and build tension. Morpheus is gave Neo an opportunity to view reality from another perspective, and forget the world he once knew. The act began with a close-up, an important shot used to create confusion as the viewers is unaware of the setting. The act itself contains leading of close-ups and reverse

After the early 21st century, humans built these machines, which are now held in a nuclear-winter-like setting. Being deprived of sunlight as an energy source, they have enslaved the human race and are farming people as a source of bioelectrical energy. The humans are kept in an unconscious state in podlike containers in a vast holding field, plugged in to a central computer. In the scenario of The Matrix, everything in the world; cars, buildings, cities, and countries are part of a complex computer-generated virtual reality, which within the humans interact. Everything they see, smell and hear is part of this virtual construct and does not really exist. A computer merely stimulates their brains and deceives them into believing that they are all living normal 20th-century lives, eating sleeping, working and interacting together. They are all blinded to the truth about how and why they exist. After a handful of people have escaped from the nightmarish world of the Matrix, they find out the truth and reach out to those still consumed with the falsities of this world. One of these, a man named Morpheus, hacks into the Matrix and contacts Neo, telling him,

They are literally imprisoned by the program; plugged in like a socket. The disruption of natural order in the world has stifled nearly the maturation of the human species. Neo is shocked when Morpheus reveals the true condition of the planet, “There are fields, endless fields where human beings are no longer born. We are grown.” Technology has annihilated their nature habitat and replaced it with their mechanical breed. Through the war against AI and humans, machinery replaced natural resources and Earth became a barren wasteland. This is a slow building mimic of the world today. Machines and technology control the natural resources in the world: water flow, electricity, and natural gas. If and when there is a major failure, society has become so dependent upon the technology that controls these resources that the result would be catastrophic.

The Matrix is the war between man and machine, and the possibility that reality is a deception. In a sense, the Matrix is a constant struggle of identity and reality. This struggle of identity and reality is based around the character of Thomas Anderson, an ordinary person living a mundane life.

The matrix, as presented in the eponymous film, operates as an Althusserian Ideological State Apparatus (ISA). The Matrix1 presents a world in which "the state [as] a 'machine' of repression" is made literal where robots rule the land (Althusser 68). It is true that they rule by force (sentinels and agents) and these constitute the Repressive State Apparatus, but their primary force of subjugation is the matrix, their ISA. The film traces the path of one man, Neo, in his painful progress from the ideology of the matrix to the "real world," or the ideology of the "real."2

The use of the color in the settings, make the film very unique in a very good way. For example all of the houses are colorful. The buildings and houses are very well placed throughout the film. The bright colors and well placed houses make the scenes and the overall movie unique. The bright colors make the movie memorable, because bright colors stand out more than other duller colors. Another example of the films features that make the movie memorable are the characters. The characters in this film wear very flashy clothing, which shows the audience that the characters have

As stated by Goodale, any repetitive elements or imagery in writing has a symbolic significance (2007, p. 56). For instance, most authors use repeated imagery in order to produce the aspect of mood or impression. Similarly, from the reading “The Matrix” by Larry and Andy Wachowski, we can recognize this aspect of recurrent imagery, which seems to have achieved a significant purpose in the text. This script was written in 1998, however, it still remains relevant today due to its visionary approach of orchestrating events and symbolic references (Crystal, 2004, p. 66). In the beginning of the script, we see the authors state, “a blinding cursor pulses in the electric darkness like a heart coursing with phosphorous light,

The storyline of the movie throws audiences immediately into the mystery behind “the matrix” from an objective person’s perspective. Neo, or Mr. Anderson as the evil Agents call him, is searching for an answer to a question he’s looked for all his life. He wants to know “what is the matrix?” Neo later learns from two new mysterious friends that the matrix is “the world pulled over your eyes.” In time,

Imagine living through life completely bound and facing a reality that doesn’t even exist. The prisoners in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” are blind from true reality as well as the people in the movie “The Matrix” written and directed by the Wachowski brothers. They are given false images and they accept what their senses are telling them, and they believe what they are experiencing is all that really exists. Plato the ancient Greek philosopher wrote “The Allegory of the Cave”, to explain the process of enlightenment and what true reality may be. In the movie “The Matrix”, Neo (the main character) was born into a world of illusions called the matrix. His true reality is being controlled by the puppet- handlers called the machines who

The earth has been decimated due to a battle for control of the earth between the AI's and humans; the Matrix camouflages this decimation. Humans are artificially created and sustained by the AI superstructure. Then

In The Matrix, many themes contribute to the greatness of this film. The theme of freedom is expressed in many ways. When Neo takes the red pill instead of the blue pill he had set himself free from the Matrix, a simulation designed to keep humans trapped so machines can use them as batteries; this shows that Neo chooses the harder path of freedom rather than the easier, yet ignorant path of imprisonment. Another example is when Neo dies at the end of the film and his mind has not been set free and he is still being restricted to the things he could do in the Matrix, but when Neo brings himself back, his mind has been completely freed and he became capable of inhumane things, such as being able to move at incredible speeds and being able to stop bullets in midair. Another theme in The Matrix is the theme of man versus machine, which is portrayed all throughout the film. A battle breaks out between the machines and the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar, a hovercraft that the crew uses in the real world, but for the crew to stay alive, they need to use an EMP, but they cannot

In contrast to a utopia, according to the power point provided in class a dystopia is “an imaginary place where people live dehumanized and often fearful lives.” The movies The Matrix, 1999 and Avatar, 2009 overall seem to me as dystopian films. To show how each film portrays the different aspects of perspectives on the future, and a dystopia, I’m going to use the settings, actions, and outcomes of each film.