Mister Anderson is wrapped up in the world of computers. As a result, he is lonely and alienated from the world. This feeling is also reflected in the high, swooping camera angle found in the film, which is characteristically Noir. But what is reality? The truth? Neo makes the conscious choice to “see how deep the rabbit hole goes.” He finds out later in the film that at the point of making such a choice, he was nothing… or nothing more than an oversized Energizer; but upon choosing the truth, he is also trying to free his mind from the priso

Existentialism of the 20th century is an avid part of this film, as in most other Noir films of the mid 20th century. As the Movement portrayed to us, The Matrix shows that we are responsible for our own choices and decisions. We as individuals are alienated from any other being and given free will to move about this planet and cosmos as we choose. It is at that point that we realize that our choices affect our own destinies, our own future, and no one else’s. It is at these defining moments that we realize one thing: the Matrix has us.

“Wake up, Neo… The Matrix has you…” Thomas A. Anderson is a respectable software programmer for a respectable computer company. He pays his taxes, has a social security number, and even helps his proprietor take out her garbage. He is just a normal person in a normal job, doing the normal thing. But one thing the viewer does not count on is Mister Anderson’s alter ego, Neo, to be one of the world’s most renowned computer hackers, guilty of virtually ever computer crime there is a law for. It is not until this e-lifestyle starts to spill over into his “real” life that he must start to make choices… choices that will forever change the way he sees the world, and changes that will forever affect his effect on that world. Neo feels alone in his quest for the “Truth.” He is trying desperately to find out what is out there, and most importantly, “What is the Matrix?”

There are also other characteristics of a Noir film in the Matrix. It invokes a great sense of alienation with its Noir-like high angle shots. The entire film is very dark and rainy. There are also many reflections, which are found in many Noir films. The Noir template was in consideration when writing and editing this film. It is evident that Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), the head Sentient Program hunting Neo, is the hard-boiled detective, and Neo is the “Fugitive from a Chain Gang” that is always on the run. Moreover, there is the classic “tilt shot” seen in the film that clues the viewer to the film’s Noir-like style. This modern-day, science fiction, Kung Fu fighting Neo-Noir thriller is clearly rooted in film classics from the past.

Neo was doomed to fail, as no one has come before him to succeed in the freeing of his own mind. As a result, he is under a sentence of death; the system is set up against him; the Matrix has him… he struggles with the choice between life and death, as he must let his instructor, Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne), die or sacrifice himself to save him. There is only one element holding his life in tact: Fate… At first, Mister Anderson does not like the idea of fate, as he cannot

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