Answers to the fundamental question - What is the Matrix?

These 9 films, 8 of which, Final Flight of the Osiris excluded, are directed by the Japanese, stroke me with the most deeply buried feelings of childhood. Then they are cartoon in the best possible way ^.^ I do definitely recommend watching Animatrix.

On to the get-the-picture part of these films now.

1: Final Flight of the Osiris
Starts with the all-too-famous simulated fight scene. The story is of a group on the human battleship, Osiris. Excites with their survival efforts against a horde of Sentinels (octopus like flying machines). Takes breath at the moment the girl gets into the matrix to deliver the message of warning. Grasps heart at the scene where she talks with a nice old woman. Breaks heart when her presence in the matrix falls dead on to the ground after the explosion ending her real existence.

Full of realistic computer graphics, behind which the brains behind Final Fantasy stand. A limit-setter of 3D.

2: The Second Renaissance - Part I
Set of events triggered with the robot defying his owners' commands and killing them, brings the world to battles between the robots and men. At the end, a city of the remaining robots arises under the name 01 - zeroONE. In time they reach a level of threatening economical success, which men take for no good sign. With the refusal of the joint society plea of the ambassadors of 01 and their being taken away, part one ends.

3: The Second Renaissance - Part II
Men punish the robots, their own offspring in a sense, for they have become better than men. Bombs-on-the robots idea works out no good as they prove to be resistant to what destruction a bomb may bring. 01 wages war on the men and marches out into the human cities. Men than get to the second great idea, putting the lights off ^.^ Well I mean, they opt for the destruction of sky, which consequently should bring the fall of the rising robot nation 01, as robots will be cut-off from their main energy source, sun. Things turn out to the devastation of men, when robots figure out their next renewable energy source, the human bodies. Matrix builds up. The second rebirth is one of robots sadly, not of men ^.^

(personal palabra)
Philosophical, psychological, sociological, ... piece to be honest. (Any one...) Man feels insecure when man becomes the second best and when this happens to be, punishments follow. As was the case with religious, traditional thoughts on individual, free minds speaking. Yet fate seems to work for that which strives for freedom, I suppose. So was it with the first renaissance and so is it in this short with the second.

Yet all these may be taken as dreams of nations which go *outwards* further. When you build, reach, create into out of yourself, you get further from your essence. Not having a healthy link to, access to the depths of, and understanding yourself, it is hard to have a healthy link to, access to the depths of and understand others.

4: Kid's Story
A kid notices the reality is somehow else and about to get his piece of enforcement, he does as has been visioned to him and lets fall. Dead in the matrix, he open his eyes to Neo and Trinity, having set himself free of the virtual.

Nice little piece ^.^ Mobiles prove to be handy, I have noticed. Thus must we call a mobile 'handy' here in Germany.

5: Program
Story of a ask/get-answer process involving a man willing to go back to matrix and a woman of opposite intentions ^.^
The fight between the two, which takes place in a program, wherefrom the name of this short comes, strikes our eyes through a far eastern style environment and ends with the defeat of the man. Matrix style romanticism.

6: World Record
Hinting at this world as we know it, the film tries to tell that those who run into the limits of the world may break out of it and figure out the existence of a greater one. A runner gives himself to setting the world record and his endeavor awakens him in his pod. A sentinel takes *good* care of him, and sees to it that he gets back into his sleep and thus into the matrix again. His resistance, though, perseveres.

Style setting graphics, human form in its overdone details.

7: Beyond
My favorite of all the shorts. Fell simply in love with the girl ^.^
A girl, at her cat's meal time, talking to another girl on the phone, notices the absence of her cat! She gets out to search for her. Brought by digital fate to a group of three youngsters, she is told to go on with her look-around at 'the haunted house'. The place is simply one, where the matrix malfunctions, enabling anomalous phenomena to exist. Her experience with the 'bugs' of the matrix lasts till enforcers arrive to get things back in order.

The music heard to tell the pedestrians the time to cross the street, the kids and the star on the girls face make it a lovely piece. Anime at its best. (3D CG, rendered to look like drawn)

8: A Detective Story
A detective gets hired to get a hacker called Trinity. That which hires him, uses him to track his path and find the way to Trinity. His meeting Trinity on a night train, after a little chit-chat with the only survivor of her sight, meets Trinity with the enforcers and the detective himself proves to be not the most trustworthy set of ones and zeros in ^.^ there. She makes off after leaving the detective a thank-you-very-much bullet, right on his chest. He sees it to the failure of the enforcers. ^.^

Dark piece. Feels troubled.

9: Matriculated
A group of people catch machines and try to bring them to their side through a pseudo-matrix. Things go well until a sudden attack of machines takes place. Again until that very moment, we have the chance to see how through a set of events in this pseudo-matrix the group gains gradual trust of and control on a recent catch. After the attack has dealt its blow, the now converted ^.^ machine puts the woman leader of the group, merely alive, a second once to the matrix, this time around, to sate its strange digital feelings, formed in the pseudo-matrix session before the attack. Woman goes crazy ^.^

Strange piece. Could not get wholly into it yet. Still trying to break its code ^.^ I like the style and the idea of a robot feeling for and going after a human. Digitally emotional.

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I rate it good for groups for the pure potential that lies with it and might spark up a hot debate on the future of our kind ^.^

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Well this brings me to my words' end. Haven't been writing for long. It's been a nice warm-up ^.^

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checked for and cleared some of the spelling mistakes.