It is always fun to go back and re-vist old movies that you were like 'yeah um that kicked so much ass!' Or to put it another way.... The MATRIX was sheer genius. The little gamer geek in me screamed how it was "just like Mage" The budding camera cinematographer in me screamed "I want to make shots JUST.LIKE.THIS!" Admittedly it was a little overused (within the year we were seeing TGIFridays with objects being thrown in the air and the camera spinning around it) The boy in me screamed for Trinity (the Princess Leia of the next generation.) It is in the re-watching that you realize the more coherent themes. (not unlike re-watching season ONE of lost and making note of just how many episodes start with someone's eye). Some of the themes are obvious (in the first movie, Alice in Wonderland is HEAVILY referenced...)
Choice.
Choosing.
The red pill or the blue pill.
his boss tells him to choose between being ontime for work, or finding another job.
One of these lives has a future. One of them does not.
the choices of the traitor (I want to be plugged in and forget this whole world)
Morpheus - Do you believe in fate neo
Neo - No
Morpheus - Why not
Neo - Because I don't like the idea that I know that I'm not in control of my life.
Morpheus - I know exactly what you mean.
Ironically Morpheus's whole point in the movie is that he is a believer in fate and the prophecy. It is interesting to see the transition in perspective on Morpheus between movie one and movie two. In the first movie, he is Captain of his ship. The believer. In the second, he is one captain amongst a fleet, and an outcast (but still a believer)
Heh... The Matrix is like the mystical force. it is all around...
There are of course problems in the fiction. Things that just don't make any sense. But hey. If you can't accept a little creative licence here and there... the movie still kicks ass. (and I'll box your ears if you say otherwise)
At any rate, I need to go and re-watch me a copy of Bound now (before the Matrix, the Wachowski brothers were still making films, and that one had Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon in a great make-out scene for the camera)
You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he expects to wake up.