"You take the Blue Pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed believe what you want to' You take the Red Pill and you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." You must choose to change your destiny. "I can only show you the door; you have to walk through it." This film is deep in plot and character development. As mentioned in class (8 Jan, '00, Jones) with color film, it is much more difficult to present such an ominous «darkness» as a more evenly lit subject is required for a good quality film. So, character development has to deepen to compensate for the different lighting, as it does in this film. Everything that characters in this film say and do is on two or even three levels of thought. Everything has a second or third meaning, and all going back to one common theme: Fate. No one likes to believe that they are not in control of his or her own life, which is understandable. However, in the film, when Morpheus reveals what is the true history of the planet, he displays the "desert of the real."
Solar power was the key to the planet, and the only way to exterminate the machines of Artificial Intelligence was to scorch the sky. It is this event that spawned the Matrix. Morpheus then shows that "Fate is not without a sense of irony." There is a higher power at work here' Whether it be an omnipotent being or just simple Fate. The entire film is about Fate and it's effect on us simple, insignificant humans. Belief is a tremendous power. It cannot be put any better than how Neo himself stated it when Morpheus had been captured and digitally "interrogated." "This can't be just coincidence' It can't be!" The Oracle had told Neo that he would [again] have to choose between sacrificing his own life or Morpheus'.
This is what initiated this final rescue mission for Morpheus. Because of what the Oracle had told Neo, he knew he could not fail, if Fate indeed was real. Since Neo was alive, that meant Morpheus must die, but if Neo charged in to rescue Morpheus, he would live, and Neo would die, if in fact Fate were real. Because he believed something so blindly, he was successful. No one or nothing has a farther reach than Fate, and this film, as other Noir films, proves it. Plot and character development aside, one can also see how the visual style of the film is distinctly Noir, as well as other distinct Noir characteristics. There are so many elements, some subtler than others, but nevertheless, they are present. First, Agent Smith is the obvious "Hard-Boiled Detective" talked so much about in class (27 Dec., '99, Jones).
This Sentient Program, out to capture anyone involved in the Resistance, possesses a hatred for his suspects unlike anything else that is machine. Other elements of Noir in The Matrix are the hard lines and shadows of darkness, which are seen often, especially in the Dojo scene. Low lighting, as well as projected shadows reflects Noir's influence. Reflections are also clearly present in this film, as they are in such films as Citizen Kane and The Lady From Shanghai (1948). They are an important part of any type of filmmaking as they present a subtleness and mysteriousness, which contributes to the "dark and ominous Noir Style" (5 Jan., '00, Jones). Also seen in this film is the Noir classic "tilt shot" on many occasions. Also on many occasions appears the high angle, sweeping shot, which is good for establishing a scene as well as portraying a feeling of alienation in such a big world.
Dark, ominous, yet exciting, this dramatic style has a long way from extinction. 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 moment that we realize one thing: the Matrix has us'
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