The Matrix: Is there another reality beyond?

I used to have a friend, at elementary school, who kept on talking to me about The Matrix...  She kept on repeating it was marveillous all the time, and I wouldn't believe her for real until I saw it by myself years later. The Matrix was released in 1999, was written and directed by Andy & Lana Wachowski, and became a very famous movie that inspired a generation.  Even more than ten years later, this work is still very actual on every side.  I think the popularity this movie gained is absolutely deserved on every side.  The storyline is deep and well build, the philosophy and the idea going out this movie are powerful and actual, and the technical stuff is credible and well made. The movie overall truly exceeded my expectations on this level. 

First, I think the storyline (including the setting), is the strongest points of that movie.  The Matrix evolves in a futurist society meanwhile in a more actual one.  The blend is made with such credibility that the viewer can't but reconsider his own universe when watching the movie.  It's nothing about a guy who's able to lift things from the ground: it's about a man who's able to modify a computer program. Anything unrealistic-looking finds its sources on trustable explanations.  They achieved to blend the credibility and the unnatural together perfectly.

Second, the message The Matrix sends us through the movie is very actual and they express it with such powerfulness that it reaches us directly in our beliefs.  There's a strong philosophical message coming in the movie, taking its sources directly from R. Descartes.  "I think, so I am" :  he was the first one to bring this idea of a possible other reality outside these things we think are real.  He claimed the only thing we can be sure about is that we exist in the moment we realise it.  Our whole universe is made of feelings, but how can we know without doubts we're not dreaming?  The Matrix comes directly from this idea who reached time and space till even today, in 2011. "If you've ever had one of those vividly realistic dreams -- the kind that occasionally feels muddled and confusing but contains some moments that are truly exhilarating -- and where upon awakening you aren't sure if what you dreamt really occurred, then you'll begin to understand how you'll feel after seeing "The Matrix." " (Screen it! Review).  This movie has also been very meaningful at the time it was written: it's just when people's fear about the 2000 year's buzz was at its climax.  At this time they feared technology would reach a point where human race would lose control over it.  So, in resume, even though the Matrix used to be more meaningful at its times, it is still a very actual movie which, from my point of view, will still reach time in space for many years over.

Third, the technical stuff was a real innovation at this time: running on walls, slow motion and other special effects were made credibly and very well compare to many movies at this time.  Even if the movie is old, it is not bothering to watch at all. I might even say it flows pretty well.  Also, the fighting scenes are, for the time, innovative: "By hiring Hong Kong Martial Arts master Yuen Wo-Ping to coordinate the fights, the Matrix raised the bar on mainstream American movie fight sequences " (Cyberpunk Review).  Apart from special effects, I think the music was incredible, and gave a very heavy and tense atmosphere to the movie, sometimes, and a very epic atmosphere during the fights. It facilitated the understanding of the movie. The music was exactly what the movie needed.  Also, the colors they used in the movie, which were dark and kind of cyberpunk-looking added tension, credibility and suspense to the movie.  It made us think exactly what they wanted expected us to think when watching:  "I wouldn't like to be living in such a place, effectively." The surnatural and yet effective elements of desing is what permits us to believe into their quest of "saving human race from salvation". 

Finally, I maintain that The Matrix is one of the best film ever made because of its great, original, and meaningful story, its credibility, its strong music and style, its powerful message, and it's timeless actuality.  Overall, I have no negative comment about this movie; it was stunning, simply.    I haven't seen the second and third one, but the end left me on a thirst I rarely have for movies.  And if we were actually trapped in The Matrix... would we ever know it?