This is a re-post of a review I wrote a while ago on my earlier blog.
Honestly, as far as I have seen, there are people who enjoy the matrix and people who do not.
And people who enjoy it, do so because they understand it or simply like the ’’special’’ special effects.
What can you say?.. As a viewer, matrix does demand certain pre-requisites. one of them is a mind that is open to possibilities. Just the way some bollywood movies demand a mind open to impossibilities ;-).
Matrix is like a mis-placed phone call into the future. It is a not-so-colorful glimpse at what CAN happen as a logical progression of the present, in the future.
In a way, it is creativity ’’inside’’ a box. a paradigm shift. and that's what makes it compelling for so many people to repeatedly list it as one of the best movies they have watched in their life.
The movie intellectually engages you, stunning you on more than one occasion, while still managing to press the right buttons of entertainment value and outstanding special effects.
The moviemakers’ imagination is so sublime that unwittingly they seem to have put the movie out of the reach of many people’s comprehension levels.
The funny thing is, even though the quality of the special effects in this movie is now easily replicable, it needs a story platform that is as convincing as the matrix to be justifiably used.
Though a lot of disciplines (like philosophy, science, psychology) come together beautifully in this movie, the fundamental premise of the movie is that the human brain is more or less like a computer and therefore it can be controlled and programmed to ’’experience’’ things by sending the same signals to the brain as the five senses do.
At the end, the writing on the wall is that, even if someone can fake your "experience’’ of life for you, the reaction to it or the choices you make are your own and Neo the central character is a symbolic representation of that fact.
Morpheus shows that belief is what makes reality and the makers of the film seem to have gone through a real test of their beliefs too.
The script must have been a challenging one for them to execute and just the fact that it took 3 parts to cover the story is a telling fact of the ground-breaking thought and passion that must have gone into this project.
Honestly, as far as I have seen, there are people who enjoy the matrix and people who do not.
And people who enjoy it, do so because they understand it or simply like the ’’special’’ special effects.
What can you say?.. As a viewer, matrix does demand certain pre-requisites. one of them is a mind that is open to possibilities. Just the way some bollywood movies demand a mind open to impossibilities ;-).
Matrix is like a mis-placed phone call into the future. It is a not-so-colorful glimpse at what CAN happen as a logical progression of the present, in the future.
In a way, it is creativity ’’inside’’ a box. a paradigm shift. and that's what makes it compelling for so many people to repeatedly list it as one of the best movies they have watched in their life.
The movie intellectually engages you, stunning you on more than one occasion, while still managing to press the right buttons of entertainment value and outstanding special effects.
The moviemakers’ imagination is so sublime that unwittingly they seem to have put the movie out of the reach of many people’s comprehension levels.
The funny thing is, even though the quality of the special effects in this movie is now easily replicable, it needs a story platform that is as convincing as the matrix to be justifiably used.
Though a lot of disciplines (like philosophy, science, psychology) come together beautifully in this movie, the fundamental premise of the movie is that the human brain is more or less like a computer and therefore it can be controlled and programmed to ’’experience’’ things by sending the same signals to the brain as the five senses do.
At the end, the writing on the wall is that, even if someone can fake your "experience’’ of life for you, the reaction to it or the choices you make are your own and Neo the central character is a symbolic representation of that fact.
Morpheus shows that belief is what makes reality and the makers of the film seem to have gone through a real test of their beliefs too.
The script must have been a challenging one for them to execute and just the fact that it took 3 parts to cover the story is a telling fact of the ground-breaking thought and passion that must have gone into this project.
