Courtesy of YouTube
Ok, where to start. Well besides feeding conspiricy theories, spawning parodies and driving people paranoid, this film proved to be very entertaining. The initial moments of the film focus on the character of Trinity, portrayed by Carrie-Anne Moss, escaping "Agents", one of whom is portrayed by the fantastic Hugo Weaving. The action-packed opening ends with a truck going through a public telephone booth. If you want to understand, then you're going to have to "Jack In" to the movie. Anyway, after an interesting club sequence, we are taken to cubicle scene where Mr. Anderson, AKA NEO (portrayed by Keanu Reeves), is himself escaping the Agents... only to leave in their custody later. It's frustrating, but understandable.
I don't want to spoil anything more, even though the movie has been out for a while, as this is a movie you really have to see. This movie really set the bar when it comes to action and story -- to the point where practically everyone has seen it, perhaps more than once. It also brings up important philisophical questions. Is ignorance bliss? Are we in a perverbial matrix? What is real? What can we define as real?
What is the Matrix?
While this makes for an interesting conversation starter at the punch bowl, it is just a film. A film asking the same questions we've already been asked in the past. The answer is not the same for everyone. Some like to believe that we are under control, we are supervised, we are grown. Some of us are surrealists. Some of us aren't. Overall, it's an entertaining film.
If you haven't seen it yet, then get out from under your rock -- take the red pill.
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Eli Roth's fake trailer for Grindhouse
Apparently, with the success of Machete in theatres, Eli Roth is now making his fake movie Thanksgiving into a film. Based in Plymouth, MA (my home state), this slasher seems to parody all of the classic horror stereotypes rather well. When it comes to theatres, I might pick it up.
But they need to do Werewolf Women of the S.S. too!
Directed by Rob Zombie
Nic Cage as Fu Manchu, oh yes.
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On an unrelated note, inspired by the first video at the top, I found this little gem on youtube as well...
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