Post by Trinity on May 29, 2006 17:49:34 GMT -5
The film begins with two voices discussing a man they believe to be "The One". In midst of their discussion a trace program begins. Police officers invade an apartment in the Heart O'the City Hotel to capture a woman named Trinity. After mysterious government agents arrive, Trinity quickly kills the police officers and evades capture using amazing feets of strength and agility. While attempting to avoid capture on a rooftop, Trinity leaps over an entire city street from one building to another. Just as the officers remark that it was impossible, a government agent does the same. Upon reaching street level, Trinity runs for a ringing telephone booth just as a garbage truck turns around and accelerates towards it. Trinity reaches the telephone booth, picking up the phone just as the truck slams into the booth, destroying it. The government agents step out of the truck and examine the remains. While the booth is destroyed, Trinity is nowhere to be seen. The agents remark that Trinity escaped, their informant is real, and they have the name of their next target: Neo.
Neo is seen under the name Thomas Anderson sleeping at his computer, his computer scrolls through news items. Neo wakes up as is computer screen blacks out and begins to type by itself "Wake up, Neo. . .". Neo is instructed to "follow the white rabbit". Choi arrives to pay two thousand dollars for a computer disk, at the same time he invites Neo to a club. Neo initially refuses but agrees when he sees the tattoo of a white rabbit on Choi's girlfriend. Later, in the club, Neo looks uncomfortable in the corner. He is approached by Trinity who tells him that he is searching for Morpheus to answer a question that he already knows: What is the Matrix?
Neo arrives late for work the following morning and for that he has to face his boss. Afterwards, while inside his cubicle, he receives a FedEx package containing a phone which immediately rings. Neo answers it to speak to Morpheus, the man he's been searching for, who warns him of the agents that are searching for him. Despite Morpheus' guidance, Neo refuses to climb out onto a ledge in order to escape custody and is captured by the agents. Inside an interrogation room, Neo is told that Morpheus is a known terrorist. They offer him a deal, in exchange for help in capturing Morpheus they will make all of his charges of computer crime go away. Neo demands the phone call he is entitled to, and the interrogation turns nightmarish. Neo's mouth is fused together while he is restrained. The leader, Agent Smith, implants a robotic insect-like bug that crawls into Neo's navel. Neo awakens in his own bed, pausing for a moment believing it to be a dream. Suddenly his phone rings, it is Morpheus requesting a meeting.
Neo is picked up by Apoc, Trinity and Switch. Trinity removes the bug from Neo and takes him to meet Morpheus. During their meeting, Morpheus and Neo discuss fate and free will. Morpheus eventually explains that he has been searching for Neo his entire life, and offers him a choice between two pills: the blue pill, which would enable him to wake up in his bed and believe whatever he wants to believe; and the red pill which would allow him to finally learn the truth about the Matrix. After accepting the red pill, Neo, scared and confused, abruptly wakes up naked in a liquid-filled chamber, his body connected by wires to a vast mechanical tower bristling with pods identical to his. The largest wire is connected to a plug on the back of his head; a floating machine removes it, and Neo is ejected out of the pod into a dark pool of water. He is rescued by Morpheus and taken aboard his hovercraft, the Nebuchadnezzar. In the medical bay, Neo passes in and out of consciousness, commenting that his eyes hurt - Morpheus explains that this is because he has never used them before. He urges him to rest while his atrophied muscles are rebuilt. Neo eventually recovers.
After being introduced to the crew of the ship, a metal plug is inserted into Neo's head and, instantly, he appears in a blank white expanse, his appearance back to normal. Morpheus is also there, and explains that they are in the Construct program, a virtual reality environment used for training. Neo is told that the year is not 1999, but closer to 2199, and humanity is fighting a war against intelligent machines. In order to deny the machines their initial power source, solar energy, the humans "scorched the sky", permanently blocking out the Sun's light. The machines responded by enslaving human beings and using them as an energy source. Humans are no longer born, but harvested in endless fields throughout the planet. It turns out that the world which Neo has inhabited since birth, the Matrix, is an illusory simulated reality construct of the world of 1999, developed by the machines to keep the human population docile whilst they are connected to generators and their energy is harvested. Morpheus and Trinity are part of a group of free humans who "unplug" humans from the Matrix and recruit them to their resistance against the machines. Neo quickly refuses to believe Morpheus. After he is unplugged, he quickly faints at the idea of the truth. Neo awakens in his bed on the ship, Morpheus at his side. Morpheus explains that Neo cannot go back to the Matrix and that he rescued Neo from the Matrix because he believes that he is "The One", a man prophesied by the Oracle to "hail the destruction of the Matrix, end the war, bring freedom to our people". Morpheus believes that Neo has the power to free humankind from its enslavement through complete mastery of the Matrix. Neo is skeptical.
In the morning, Neo discusses Zion with the ships "operator", Tank. Tank explains that Zion is the last human city and brings Neo to be plugged back in. Tank begins with combat training, which is downloaded straight into Neo's brain. The process knocks the wind out of Neo, but still agrees to more. Neo is taught all of the major martial arts. Morpheus asks to Neo in action. Neo's is brought into a sparing program, a world that is very similar to the Matrix. Neo is told that the Matrix is nothing more than a computer program with rules. Rules can be bent and some can be broken. Neo spares with Morpheus and soon grasps the idea of defying the physics of the Matrix. They are than transferred to "the jump program" a simulation of two skyscrapers that are significant distance apart. Morpheus presents the same basic task, for Neo to "free his mind" and jump from one building to the other. Neo attempts and fails. After being brought out of the simulation. Neo is bleeding, he asks claiming it is not real. Morpheus replies that his mind makes it real and if he is killed in the Matrix, his physical body will also die.
In another training program Morpheus warns Neo of the rebels' main hazard in the Matrix: Agents. The men in suits who interrogated Neo earlier were actually self-aware programs who behave as anti-virus utilities; their purpose is to seek out and eliminate any problems within the Matrix in order to keep it stable. Anyone who has not been unplugged from the Matrix is potentially an Agent, because they have the ability to take over the body of anyone still connected to the system. They are armed with Desert Eagle pistols and possess incredible martial arts skills, superhuman strength, agility, and speed. Morpheus tells Neo that "everyone who has stood their ground against an Agent has died", but explains that Agents are still nonetheless limited by the physical rules of the Matrix. Once Neo, being The One, fully understands the true nature of the Matrix, the Agents will be no match for him. However later, another member of the crew, Cypher, advises Neo to disregard Morpheus's advice; telling him that if he sees an Agent, his only chance of survival is to run away. Cypher is later seen having dinner inside of the Matrix with Agent Smith. Cypher strikes a deal with Smith that he will arrange for Morpheus to be captured if the machines will reinsert him into the Matrix.
The group enters the Matrix to take Neo to meet the Oracle, a woman Morpheus describes as being very old and with the rebels "since the beginning (...) of the resistance". In the Oracle's apartment, several children manipulate objects using telekinetic abilities. A young bald boy bending a spoon tells Neo,
"Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth. (...) There is no spoon. Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself."
Neo, alone, enters the kitchen of the apartment and meets with the Oracle (Gloria Foster), an old lady baking cookies. Neo is puzzled at her ability to predict future actions. She then implies that Neo is not the One, and that he seems to be waiting for something — his next life, perhaps. She states that Morpheus believes in the prophecy so blindly, he would sacrifice his life to save Neo's, and predicts that he must make a choice between his life and that of Morpheus. As they leave, Morpheus explains to Neo that the Oracle's words were for him alone.
After the meeting, the crew heads toward the nearest "hard line", a telephone line in the Matrix which may be used by the rebels to safely exit from the virtual world. As they approach the exit, Neo has a déjà vu moment, which Trinity explains is usually the result of a glitch in the Matrix, implying that something in the environment has been changed. They discover that all the doors and windows are blocked and the hard line has been cut, with Agents and a police SWAT team pursuing them up the stairs. Mouse finds himself trapped and is spotted by the SWAT team and killed. They then try to escape the building through the main "wet" wall, but are discovered hiding behind the wall by a police officer, who soon becomes an agent and punches through the wall, grabbing Neo. An unarmed Morpheus saves Neo from Agent Smith's grasp, but is effortlessly beaten and captured himself. The others manage to escape, and Cypher is separated from the group and is the first to reach the hard line. After being disconnected, Cypher wounds Tank and kills Tank's older brother, Dozer. The crew discovers that Morpheus was captured due to a betrayal by Cypher, who preferred living in ignorance within the Matrix and blames Morpheus for giving him the red pill. Cypher murders Apoc and Switch by unplugging them, but before he can kill Neo and Trinity, Tank recovers and shoots Cypher.
Meanwhile, Morpheus has been imprisoned in a government military building. Three Agents attempt to use a serum to gain information from him regarding access codes to the defenses of Zion. In this time, Smith confesses to Morpheus that (despite being a computer program) he hates the Matrix and he demands to be let into the codes to the Zion mainframe in order to escape.
Based on what the Oracle said to him, Neo decides to rescue Morpheus despite Tank's warnings that attempting to do so would be suicide. Trinity accompanies him. Entering the building, Neo and Trinity kill the dozens of soldiers (and, temporarily, the three Agents) guarding Morpheus. In the process Neo becomes more confident and familiar with manipulating the Matrix, allowing him to perform feats such as dodging bullets fired at him by an Agent by bending backwards at an impossible angle. Trinity remarks that she's never seen anyone move that fast. They finally succeed in rescuing their leader, and in an empty subway station Morpheus and Trinity exit the Matrix through a hard line. However, before Neo can follow, the phone being used is destroyed by Agent Smith. Instead of fleeing from him as he had been advised, Neo duels with Smith, and is able to hold his own for a while. Eventually, he is overwhelmed, and the Agent attempts to kill him by holding him down on the subway tracks as a train approaches. Stunning Smith with an unexpected move, Neo leaps out of the way just before the train arrives and collides with the Agent, apparently killing him. However, it is only a temporary escape, as Agent Smith quickly possesses another body and pursues Neo.
Neo is chased through the city by the three Agents while Sentinels locate the Nebuchadnezzar's position in the real world and close in fast. However, the ship's electromagnetic pulse device, the crew's only weapon against the Sentinels, cannot be activated until Neo has left the Matrix. As they prepare to use it, Tank guides Neo towards an "old exit". He opens the door to the room containing the exit telephone, but Smith is already waiting, with his gun pointed at Neo's chest. He shoots him several times. Neo collapses to the floor in the Matrix as a flatline readout of his heartbeat occurs on the Nebuchadnezzar. The crew is devastated. Trinity whispers to Neo that she refuses to accept his death, since the Oracle told her that the man she would fall in love with would be the One, she confesses that she is in love with him. Neo's heart monitor begins to beat again, and within the Matrix he stands up. The Agents shoot at him, but he raises his palm and stops their bullets in mid-air. As they fall to the ground, Neo looks up and sees the artificial Matrix as lines of streaming green code: he finally becomes "The One".
Agent Smith makes one last ditch attempt to physically attack him, but Neo effortlessly blocks his punches. He then plunges directly into Smith's body, causing it to rupture and then explode, leaving Neo standing. The other two Agents flee, and Neo returns to the real world barely in time for the ship's electromagnetic pulse to short out the Sentinels. A short epilogue shows him back in the Matrix, making a telephone call promising:
"I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you... a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world... where anything is possible. Where we go from here is a choice I leave to you."
Neo hangs up the phone, looks up, and flies into the sky above the city. [2]
Neo is seen under the name Thomas Anderson sleeping at his computer, his computer scrolls through news items. Neo wakes up as is computer screen blacks out and begins to type by itself "Wake up, Neo. . .". Neo is instructed to "follow the white rabbit". Choi arrives to pay two thousand dollars for a computer disk, at the same time he invites Neo to a club. Neo initially refuses but agrees when he sees the tattoo of a white rabbit on Choi's girlfriend. Later, in the club, Neo looks uncomfortable in the corner. He is approached by Trinity who tells him that he is searching for Morpheus to answer a question that he already knows: What is the Matrix?
Neo arrives late for work the following morning and for that he has to face his boss. Afterwards, while inside his cubicle, he receives a FedEx package containing a phone which immediately rings. Neo answers it to speak to Morpheus, the man he's been searching for, who warns him of the agents that are searching for him. Despite Morpheus' guidance, Neo refuses to climb out onto a ledge in order to escape custody and is captured by the agents. Inside an interrogation room, Neo is told that Morpheus is a known terrorist. They offer him a deal, in exchange for help in capturing Morpheus they will make all of his charges of computer crime go away. Neo demands the phone call he is entitled to, and the interrogation turns nightmarish. Neo's mouth is fused together while he is restrained. The leader, Agent Smith, implants a robotic insect-like bug that crawls into Neo's navel. Neo awakens in his own bed, pausing for a moment believing it to be a dream. Suddenly his phone rings, it is Morpheus requesting a meeting.
Neo is picked up by Apoc, Trinity and Switch. Trinity removes the bug from Neo and takes him to meet Morpheus. During their meeting, Morpheus and Neo discuss fate and free will. Morpheus eventually explains that he has been searching for Neo his entire life, and offers him a choice between two pills: the blue pill, which would enable him to wake up in his bed and believe whatever he wants to believe; and the red pill which would allow him to finally learn the truth about the Matrix. After accepting the red pill, Neo, scared and confused, abruptly wakes up naked in a liquid-filled chamber, his body connected by wires to a vast mechanical tower bristling with pods identical to his. The largest wire is connected to a plug on the back of his head; a floating machine removes it, and Neo is ejected out of the pod into a dark pool of water. He is rescued by Morpheus and taken aboard his hovercraft, the Nebuchadnezzar. In the medical bay, Neo passes in and out of consciousness, commenting that his eyes hurt - Morpheus explains that this is because he has never used them before. He urges him to rest while his atrophied muscles are rebuilt. Neo eventually recovers.
After being introduced to the crew of the ship, a metal plug is inserted into Neo's head and, instantly, he appears in a blank white expanse, his appearance back to normal. Morpheus is also there, and explains that they are in the Construct program, a virtual reality environment used for training. Neo is told that the year is not 1999, but closer to 2199, and humanity is fighting a war against intelligent machines. In order to deny the machines their initial power source, solar energy, the humans "scorched the sky", permanently blocking out the Sun's light. The machines responded by enslaving human beings and using them as an energy source. Humans are no longer born, but harvested in endless fields throughout the planet. It turns out that the world which Neo has inhabited since birth, the Matrix, is an illusory simulated reality construct of the world of 1999, developed by the machines to keep the human population docile whilst they are connected to generators and their energy is harvested. Morpheus and Trinity are part of a group of free humans who "unplug" humans from the Matrix and recruit them to their resistance against the machines. Neo quickly refuses to believe Morpheus. After he is unplugged, he quickly faints at the idea of the truth. Neo awakens in his bed on the ship, Morpheus at his side. Morpheus explains that Neo cannot go back to the Matrix and that he rescued Neo from the Matrix because he believes that he is "The One", a man prophesied by the Oracle to "hail the destruction of the Matrix, end the war, bring freedom to our people". Morpheus believes that Neo has the power to free humankind from its enslavement through complete mastery of the Matrix. Neo is skeptical.
In the morning, Neo discusses Zion with the ships "operator", Tank. Tank explains that Zion is the last human city and brings Neo to be plugged back in. Tank begins with combat training, which is downloaded straight into Neo's brain. The process knocks the wind out of Neo, but still agrees to more. Neo is taught all of the major martial arts. Morpheus asks to Neo in action. Neo's is brought into a sparing program, a world that is very similar to the Matrix. Neo is told that the Matrix is nothing more than a computer program with rules. Rules can be bent and some can be broken. Neo spares with Morpheus and soon grasps the idea of defying the physics of the Matrix. They are than transferred to "the jump program" a simulation of two skyscrapers that are significant distance apart. Morpheus presents the same basic task, for Neo to "free his mind" and jump from one building to the other. Neo attempts and fails. After being brought out of the simulation. Neo is bleeding, he asks claiming it is not real. Morpheus replies that his mind makes it real and if he is killed in the Matrix, his physical body will also die.
In another training program Morpheus warns Neo of the rebels' main hazard in the Matrix: Agents. The men in suits who interrogated Neo earlier were actually self-aware programs who behave as anti-virus utilities; their purpose is to seek out and eliminate any problems within the Matrix in order to keep it stable. Anyone who has not been unplugged from the Matrix is potentially an Agent, because they have the ability to take over the body of anyone still connected to the system. They are armed with Desert Eagle pistols and possess incredible martial arts skills, superhuman strength, agility, and speed. Morpheus tells Neo that "everyone who has stood their ground against an Agent has died", but explains that Agents are still nonetheless limited by the physical rules of the Matrix. Once Neo, being The One, fully understands the true nature of the Matrix, the Agents will be no match for him. However later, another member of the crew, Cypher, advises Neo to disregard Morpheus's advice; telling him that if he sees an Agent, his only chance of survival is to run away. Cypher is later seen having dinner inside of the Matrix with Agent Smith. Cypher strikes a deal with Smith that he will arrange for Morpheus to be captured if the machines will reinsert him into the Matrix.
The group enters the Matrix to take Neo to meet the Oracle, a woman Morpheus describes as being very old and with the rebels "since the beginning (...) of the resistance". In the Oracle's apartment, several children manipulate objects using telekinetic abilities. A young bald boy bending a spoon tells Neo,
"Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth. (...) There is no spoon. Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself."
Neo, alone, enters the kitchen of the apartment and meets with the Oracle (Gloria Foster), an old lady baking cookies. Neo is puzzled at her ability to predict future actions. She then implies that Neo is not the One, and that he seems to be waiting for something — his next life, perhaps. She states that Morpheus believes in the prophecy so blindly, he would sacrifice his life to save Neo's, and predicts that he must make a choice between his life and that of Morpheus. As they leave, Morpheus explains to Neo that the Oracle's words were for him alone.
After the meeting, the crew heads toward the nearest "hard line", a telephone line in the Matrix which may be used by the rebels to safely exit from the virtual world. As they approach the exit, Neo has a déjà vu moment, which Trinity explains is usually the result of a glitch in the Matrix, implying that something in the environment has been changed. They discover that all the doors and windows are blocked and the hard line has been cut, with Agents and a police SWAT team pursuing them up the stairs. Mouse finds himself trapped and is spotted by the SWAT team and killed. They then try to escape the building through the main "wet" wall, but are discovered hiding behind the wall by a police officer, who soon becomes an agent and punches through the wall, grabbing Neo. An unarmed Morpheus saves Neo from Agent Smith's grasp, but is effortlessly beaten and captured himself. The others manage to escape, and Cypher is separated from the group and is the first to reach the hard line. After being disconnected, Cypher wounds Tank and kills Tank's older brother, Dozer. The crew discovers that Morpheus was captured due to a betrayal by Cypher, who preferred living in ignorance within the Matrix and blames Morpheus for giving him the red pill. Cypher murders Apoc and Switch by unplugging them, but before he can kill Neo and Trinity, Tank recovers and shoots Cypher.
Meanwhile, Morpheus has been imprisoned in a government military building. Three Agents attempt to use a serum to gain information from him regarding access codes to the defenses of Zion. In this time, Smith confesses to Morpheus that (despite being a computer program) he hates the Matrix and he demands to be let into the codes to the Zion mainframe in order to escape.
Based on what the Oracle said to him, Neo decides to rescue Morpheus despite Tank's warnings that attempting to do so would be suicide. Trinity accompanies him. Entering the building, Neo and Trinity kill the dozens of soldiers (and, temporarily, the three Agents) guarding Morpheus. In the process Neo becomes more confident and familiar with manipulating the Matrix, allowing him to perform feats such as dodging bullets fired at him by an Agent by bending backwards at an impossible angle. Trinity remarks that she's never seen anyone move that fast. They finally succeed in rescuing their leader, and in an empty subway station Morpheus and Trinity exit the Matrix through a hard line. However, before Neo can follow, the phone being used is destroyed by Agent Smith. Instead of fleeing from him as he had been advised, Neo duels with Smith, and is able to hold his own for a while. Eventually, he is overwhelmed, and the Agent attempts to kill him by holding him down on the subway tracks as a train approaches. Stunning Smith with an unexpected move, Neo leaps out of the way just before the train arrives and collides with the Agent, apparently killing him. However, it is only a temporary escape, as Agent Smith quickly possesses another body and pursues Neo.
Neo is chased through the city by the three Agents while Sentinels locate the Nebuchadnezzar's position in the real world and close in fast. However, the ship's electromagnetic pulse device, the crew's only weapon against the Sentinels, cannot be activated until Neo has left the Matrix. As they prepare to use it, Tank guides Neo towards an "old exit". He opens the door to the room containing the exit telephone, but Smith is already waiting, with his gun pointed at Neo's chest. He shoots him several times. Neo collapses to the floor in the Matrix as a flatline readout of his heartbeat occurs on the Nebuchadnezzar. The crew is devastated. Trinity whispers to Neo that she refuses to accept his death, since the Oracle told her that the man she would fall in love with would be the One, she confesses that she is in love with him. Neo's heart monitor begins to beat again, and within the Matrix he stands up. The Agents shoot at him, but he raises his palm and stops their bullets in mid-air. As they fall to the ground, Neo looks up and sees the artificial Matrix as lines of streaming green code: he finally becomes "The One".
Agent Smith makes one last ditch attempt to physically attack him, but Neo effortlessly blocks his punches. He then plunges directly into Smith's body, causing it to rupture and then explode, leaving Neo standing. The other two Agents flee, and Neo returns to the real world barely in time for the ship's electromagnetic pulse to short out the Sentinels. A short epilogue shows him back in the Matrix, making a telephone call promising:
"I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you... a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world... where anything is possible. Where we go from here is a choice I leave to you."
Neo hangs up the phone, looks up, and flies into the sky above the city. [2]