Did anyone understand any of The Matrix movies?

Question

I've seen all three of them and had no idea what was going on in any of them. Now, I don't think I'm stupid but that was a really confusing trilogy for me! Any one else find that? Maybe someone could please explain it for me :o)

Answer 1

the matrix trilogy is one of the best ever i have it on dvd and i jusr recently got it in HD. Watched it over and over the first time and twice all the way through on HD. You really need to be into the movie to understand. and anyone who does not understand was the person who was getting a drink or taking a piss durry the slow but need to see parts.

Answer 2

I have watched all three matrix movies many times. Yes...watching 2 and 3 means I also enjoy being tied up and whipped.

Forget 2 and 3 for a moment, the first one is easy.

Basically the concept of virtual reality has been dealt with over many thousands of years....in the Book of Leigh Tzu, there is the story of Chang Tzu, who dreamed he was a butterfly and forget he was a man in the dream. When he woke he remembered the dream...and the thought, maybe I am really a buttery dreaming I am a man.

It also references Lao Tzu (The Matrix is the mother, the illusion from which the world we believe in is created....this is ancient chinese philosophy).

Not to mention western authors, Lewis Carrol (Alice in Wonderland) and Kant (great philosopher who thought, if are senses are electrical impulses we could create an articificial reality by wiring up our senses, we would have no idea if it is real of false).

Basically Keanu plays Neo, a superhero buddha. His job is to to see through the illusion of the Matrix to the reality that is behind it, just at the Buddha did (though the Buddha used less guns, but there is supposedly buddha's own martial art).

He transforms from Nerd, to Superhero to God. It is one of the great movie character transformations, because the character must go through 2 stages, but the stages flow together.

Having read a lot of the appropriate philosophy before the movie I was able to pick the ending half-way through (am I a genius , or just a total nob, you decide).

The other 2 movies are badly written, with bad dialogue and story structure. Every time I watch them I see some reference or link I didn't see before.

But the themese are too thick, too badly linked to really understand.

One of the themes is about choice and freedom. Neo fights for others. Agent Smith is now free, but he just copies himself, over and over again. Choice is the issue. Neo stands alone, because he is right, Smith creates an evil army of clones because he is wrong (actually part of normal human behaviour).

Another is about war and being a soldier. A soldier is a person who is commited to die for what they believe in.

Another is control and choice. The one is supposedly freedom, but really it is another form of control. But eventually freedom wins over control.

One thing you have to understand is that the Wachowski Brothers (the film directors) fall into what I call the "Making movies are really cool" school of film making. The are fancinated by what they can do in a movie, all the cool things. This type of filmmaker can make extraordinary works are art and utter rubbish. Other fimmakers includer Robert Rodrigeus (El Mariachi, Dusk till Dawn), the guy who make the Charlies Angels movies among others.

Answer 3

The first one is pretty straight-forward. The two sequels are convoluted and pointless.

Neo (Keanu Reeves) is a computer hacker who is dissatisfied with his life. He learns about a man named Morpheus who promises to reveal major secrets to him - at a time when intimidating agents in suits and sunglasses are following him and strange things are happening.

He meets Morpheus who asks if he's really sure he wants to know the truth. The truth is that the world that Neo knows - the city and job and apartment he knows - are all an illusion. All humans are actually hooked up to a complex computer simulation known as the Matrix, which plugs directly into their brains through the back of their heads.

There was a war between humans and intelligent computers. The humans blocked out the sun to prevent the computers from getting power, but they discovered that humans generate a small amount of electricity, so the computer use all the humans plugged into the Matrix as their power source to rule the world.

There is a small group of free humans, who are not plugged in, and Morpheus is their leader. But - they can hack into the Matrix, and free people (like Neo) or mess with the system.

But the Matrix is so real that your brain can't tell the difference, and if you die in the Matrix - even though it's not physically real - your brain thinks it's real and you die.

Morpheus is betrayed and is captured in the Matrix. He thinks Neo is "the one" - the savior of humankind who can overcome the pretend world of the Matrix - so he's willing to sacrifice himself. Neo has seen the prophet who tells him he's not the one and he says they have to rescue Morpheus.

But in rescuing him, it becomes clear Neo really is The One - he can overcome death in the Matrix, he can dodge bullets and bend the false reality to his will. They rescue Morpheus and suggest that with Neo they will now be able to defeat the computers...which is where the first movie ends.

Answer 4

1. Because he obviously hadn't used his eyes before/ 2. He knows about some other hacker, and that he is a person living in what he believes to be 1999. 3. He knows as much as the matrix does. 4. More so about their destiny.

Answer 5

Here it is:The majority of humanity were living in suspended animation encased in small coffin-shaped units.Their electrical energy was used to power the electronic reality that most people believed was actual reality.The matrix was the two combined things :the suspended animation people(power cells) and the electronic illusion world their consciousnesses dwelled in.If you watch the original movie with this in mind,it should become clearer to you.

Answer 6

Picture this!.....
It's the future. Us humans created Artificial Intelligence so smart that they can create their own A.I. They were originally designed to gain power from the sun. The robots got tired of us lazy humans taking advantage of such smart beings, so they revolted. Us humans couldnt think of anything smarter than to create a perpetual storm to block out the sun in vain attempts to stop the robots from charging their own batteries if you will and to stop them from killing all of us (there was war for many years between us and them)
The machines figured out a way to use humans as a battery since we can generate 15 BTU's I think it was, hence the human field mines you see in the first movie. The humans that were not fed to the mines were forced to live underground. For years it went this way, until the humans began to hear of the prophecy of the "one" (Neo) and I hope that that puts a piece of the puzzle in for you.
If you have not seen the "animatrix"
I highly recommend it , there are more corners to the puzzle for you to see. Hope that helps.

Answer 7

Whatever fantasies you see aren't real is the message they're sending .

Answer 8

all you experience is illusion.
And man vs machine.