Animatrixed
So yesterday I bought the Animatrix at MediaPlay (which after remembering that I had wanted to buy it for the longest time, I regretted purchasing The Day After Tomorrow at Circuit City early yesterday morning and further more removing the packaging so it was non-returnable. Dammit! My money is getting sucked out of my pocket! I think I only have maybe $65 left of the $175 I got this week.
I Just got done watching the Animatrix, a collection of 9 stories relating to the Matrix, filling in many holes and background stories for the Trilogy. They're done in a "visionary fusing of CG-animation and Japanese anime. Utterly marvelous. Just when I think the Matrix can't get any better. I'm so in love with everything. The story/movie has so many aspects that you can't think about them all in the course of a day. Action, Art, Beauty, Philosophy, Sci-Fi, Irony, Mystery, Love; It's an overwhelming pleasing experience not just visually but more importantly, mentally.
One of the cool ones--What am I saying?! They're ALL cool. A really cool one was the one telling of The Second Renaissance. It tells the basic history of the story of the end of humanity as we know it: the riots against the robots and slaughtering of, the isolation of the machines, the leading up to the war, the destruction of the sky, the bloody war that followed, and then the harvesting and then growing of humans and creation of the Matrix. Gory images, horrifying thoughts and ideas. It terrifies me of man kind's future. How we became the architect of our own fall. Also, before the robots were banished from the human societies it showed the many riots of humans viciously slaughtering robots that looked all too human. One death that stands out in my mind was a robot getting his brains blown out by a close-range shot to the head. Circuits and little parts flew everywhere, eerily resembling real human gore.
Another cool one was the last one, Matriculated. This one had stunning visuals. It was kind of ironic because the humans put a machine mind into a human dream that was unpredictable, psychedelic, and powerful. I'm not exactly sure how they did it but they sort of "freed the machine's mind" by the machine's free will. It was ironic in the aspect that in reality the humans are subjected to the machine's dream world. And now the machine was plugged into a human dream world that led the robot on a nebulous journey. What was even cooler was when the humans awoke the robot from the dream and the robot actually fought attacking machines that had interrupted the dream to attack the human rebels. The main girl that saved the 'converted' machine was the last one to die, and the machine tried to save her and bring her back to life. But in the end he was left alone. All this was emotionally heart-wrenching. All though the machine was completely alien in appearance, you could sense and feel his emotions and sorrow and desperation to save this girl. You could read it in his eyes (he had about 7, I think). All in all, I was left very fascinated and tearfulish.
So that's my little Animatrix ramble. I loved it. It just makes the whole Matrix spectrum even more vast.
I Just got done watching the Animatrix, a collection of 9 stories relating to the Matrix, filling in many holes and background stories for the Trilogy. They're done in a "visionary fusing of CG-animation and Japanese anime. Utterly marvelous. Just when I think the Matrix can't get any better. I'm so in love with everything. The story/movie has so many aspects that you can't think about them all in the course of a day. Action, Art, Beauty, Philosophy, Sci-Fi, Irony, Mystery, Love; It's an overwhelming pleasing experience not just visually but more importantly, mentally.
One of the cool ones--What am I saying?! They're ALL cool. A really cool one was the one telling of The Second Renaissance. It tells the basic history of the story of the end of humanity as we know it: the riots against the robots and slaughtering of, the isolation of the machines, the leading up to the war, the destruction of the sky, the bloody war that followed, and then the harvesting and then growing of humans and creation of the Matrix. Gory images, horrifying thoughts and ideas. It terrifies me of man kind's future. How we became the architect of our own fall. Also, before the robots were banished from the human societies it showed the many riots of humans viciously slaughtering robots that looked all too human. One death that stands out in my mind was a robot getting his brains blown out by a close-range shot to the head. Circuits and little parts flew everywhere, eerily resembling real human gore.
Another cool one was the last one, Matriculated. This one had stunning visuals. It was kind of ironic because the humans put a machine mind into a human dream that was unpredictable, psychedelic, and powerful. I'm not exactly sure how they did it but they sort of "freed the machine's mind" by the machine's free will. It was ironic in the aspect that in reality the humans are subjected to the machine's dream world. And now the machine was plugged into a human dream world that led the robot on a nebulous journey. What was even cooler was when the humans awoke the robot from the dream and the robot actually fought attacking machines that had interrupted the dream to attack the human rebels. The main girl that saved the 'converted' machine was the last one to die, and the machine tried to save her and bring her back to life. But in the end he was left alone. All this was emotionally heart-wrenching. All though the machine was completely alien in appearance, you could sense and feel his emotions and sorrow and desperation to save this girl. You could read it in his eyes (he had about 7, I think). All in all, I was left very fascinated and tearfulish.
So that's my little Animatrix ramble. I loved it. It just makes the whole Matrix spectrum even more vast.