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Quotes

Trinity: I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did.
Neo: What is the Matrix?
Trinity: The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.

[on the war that devastated the Real World]
Morpheus: We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power. It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun.

Neo: I thought it wasn't real
Morpheus: Your mind makes it real
Neo: If you're killed in the matrix, you die here?
Morpheus: The body cannot live without the mind

Morpheus: I imagine that right now, you're feeling a bit like Alice. Hmm? Tumbling down the rabbit hole?
Neo: You could say that.
Morpheus: I see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, that's not far from the truth. Do you believe in fate, Neo?
Neo: No.
Morpheus: Why not?
Neo: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
Morpheus: I know *exactly* what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Neo: The Matrix.
Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is?
Neo: Yes.
Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.

Cast

Keanu Reeves ... Neo
Laurence Fishburne ... Morpheus
Carrie-Anne Moss ... Trinity
Hugo Weaving ... Agent Smith
Joe Pantoliano ... Cypher
Marcus Chong ... Tank

director

Andy Wachowski
Lana Wachowski

Writers

Andy Wachowski
Lana Wachowski

The Matrix (1999)

Computer hacker Thomas Anderson has lived a relatively ordinary life--in what he thinks is the year 1999--until he is contacted by the enigmatic Morpheus who leads him into the real world. In reality, it is 200 years later, and the world has been laid waste and taken over by advanced artificial intelligence machines. The computers have created a false version of 20th-century life--the Matrix--to keep the human slaves satisfied, while the AI machines draw power from the humans. Anderson, pursued constantly by Agents (computers who take on human form and infiltrate the Matrix), is hailed as The One who will lead the humans to overthrow the machines and reclaim the Earth.

TRAILER

Soundtrack

Massive Attack - "Dissolved Girl"
Rob Zombie - "Dragula (Hot Rod Herman Mix)"
Lunatic Calm - "Leave You Far Behind (Lunatics Roller Coaster Mix)"
The Prodigy - "Mindfields"
Meat Beat Manifesto - "Prime Audio Soup"
Rob Dougan (as Rob D) - "Clubbed To Death (Kurayamino Mix)"
Django Reinhardt - "Minor Swing"
Jimmie Haskell - "Begin the Run"
Duke Ellington - "I'm Beginning to See the Light"
The Propellerheads - "Spybreak (Short One)"
Rage Against the Machine - "Wake Up"
Marilyn Manson - "Rock is Dead"