Keanu Reeves Movie example essay topic
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The Matrix Who would have thought that a Keanu Reeves movie could be intellectually as well as visually satisfying? Not me, that's for sure. But The Matrix is a thought-provoking tale questioning just what is and what isn't reality. Keanu plays Thomas Anderson, a mild-mannered computer programmer by day, and illegal hacker under the alias Neo by night. His life is about to take a turn towards the strange side, however. After being contacted by a mystery woman named Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), who tells him about "The Matrix", he and Trinity are pursued by Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) and his thugs. Obviously Smith & Company know something about the Matrix that they don't want anyone else to find out. After narrowly escaping with their lives, Trinity brings Neo to Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), who, informs Neo about the rest of the situation. Seems that everything Neo has experienced in his life is just an illusion created by the Matrix, which is a device being used by artificial life forms to enslave the human race. Also on Morpheus' team are Cypher (Joe Pantoliano), a fellow hacker slowly becoming disillusioned with their quest, and Tank (Marcus Chong), who runs their hovercraft.
After Morpheus trains Neo of the ways of the Matrix, they all return to the "fake" world that they inhabit to rid the world of its unknowing slavery. The movie is visually stunning, messing around with both reality and fantasy, much as Dark City did last year. The fight scenes are amazing to watch, much helped by the special effects, which are flawless. The acting supports the story, which really impressed me. There's only one way to play a movie like this, and that's straight down the middle.
If you emote too much, it turns into really bad camp, and if you play it for laughs, you ruin the whole point of the movie. Congratulations must go out to the directors and the actors for realizing this. In fact, the only problem I had with the movie was the last scene, which made the religious allegory (which up until this point had been tastefully handled) way too heavy. Other than that, The Matrix is a very good movie, one of the most intriguing movies I have ever seen, and I recommend it highly.
