Matrix

Hollywood is the production machine that continues to bombard America with its action-packed hero movies. The Matrix stars Keanu Reeves as a prime example of the larger than life Hollywood hero whose explosive screen acting and dumb luck turn the lead character into this hero, who tantalizes American audiences.

The storyline of the movie throws audiences immediately into the mystery behind “the matrix” from an objective person’s perspective. Neo, or Mr. Anderson as the evil Agents call him, is searching for an answer to a question he’s looked for all his life. He wants to know “what is the matrix?” Neo later learns from two new mysterious friends that the matrix is “the world pulled over your eyes.” In time, and with help from these friends Morpheus and Trinity, Neo learns the reality, or non-reality, of the matrix. He finds the truth of the world in which the human race is enslaved and is used as a power source for artificially intelligent computers, which took over the world long ago. At the prompting of Morpheus, Neo starts to wonder if he could be the one prophesied and destined to free the human race from the control of these sadistic computer programs.

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This turned him into our action hero. With the loss of Morpheus from the group, Neo feels that all is lost. Their unemotional faces and voices add to their dark tone and mood.

As Morpheus fights up on Neo in the martial arts sparring program, Neo realizes what he can do with the matrix and is “transformed” into the hero he needs to be to save the day. This follows the point of Seger that the hero will be reluctant. The ways in which she shows her body, along with her acting, presents her as America’s tough girl, to be idled along with the hero. He failed to see that he was more than what he thought he was, and after he dealt with the fact that his life had just changed radically, he aspired to be a warrior and a hero to take a stand against evil. The major test and obstacle mentioned by Seger to be the next step in the process of getting to the level of being a mythic hero. This can be seen as the rock bottom as mentioned by Seger. Cipher is another important character due to the fact the he was fighting for the cause of rescuing humanity, but turns traitor and gives in his friends just so he can go back to his little taste of non-reality.

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