In March 31, 1999, Warner Bros. Picture released The Matrix. It is a fiction-action film starring with Keanu Reeves. Reeves is a computer programmer who called himself Neo. He is eager to find the true about The Matrix. He then is contacted by the people who run the world made out of a computer program, and after meeting them he has to decide between staying in, or going back to his ordinary life style. He accepts the challenges, and then he discovers that he is the one who has the skill to save the Matrix of its enemies (Source Wikipedia)
The Matrix is considered as a message film like many others movies. Some have said that the movie is a critic of how we, the human, are treating the world. Others have stated that the movie is a reflection of how we are slave of our own system. Every movie has a message; some more stronger than others, but at the end of the day it just a movie. I don’t think that we should take it that serious abut the moral of the Matrix, because the first goal of the movie is to make money, and on the other had there are hundreds of movies created each year with the same purpose.
The principal goal on the cinema producers is to make money out of their films; to change people’s mind could take a second place. The movies that are being releasing these days, are millionaires investments. Why entrepreneurs would put so much money in risk out there just to try to change the way how people think? An example is the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”. A film that cost only one million dollar to produce and have earned 50 millions gross revenue worldwide. I not saying that make money was the intention of the writer and stare of the film, AL Gore, but it was to the producers. Al Gore had tried and tried to get the attention of the world about his own theory of the negative impact of global worming. In one of his presentation he convinced Laurie David, and David convinced herself of the brilliant opportunity that she had of making a film out of that idea. As a result Al Gore is pleased that he got the attention of the world about the matter, but more than delighted are the producers who are still seeking for more ideas to bring them to the big screen.
Another reason why we should not care about of the message of the Matrix, is because there are so many movies with they different perspective. For a lover of the cinema entertainment like me, what we are looking for is to have fun; not to bring $12.50 to sell window tickets in exchange to be persuaded in 90 minutes. I believe last year I went to the theater at least fifteen times. It will be impossible for me to put in practice all the positive of those movie in my personal life. I don’t think I can fly from a building to another and stay alive.
So for those who have seen the Matrix and are dealing if what the movie is saying is significant or not; just remember how much fun did you have, for example looking at Trinity like I did, and move on. There are many others movies that are waiting for our attention.
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