I miss the 90s. In a lot of ways I think 1999 was the peak of our American society. It was before 9/11 and the wars, the stock market and real estate bubbles. Before everyone was glued to a screen and iPad kids.
@@poorchristopher15Neo was talking to the machines. "I know you are afraid of us now, afraid of change...I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see." The machine runs a trace but glitches after realizing he is talking to them. That's why the 'System Failure'.
If you're paying attention, this is a metaphor that serves your escape... You are a coppertop... Acceptance is step one... Follow the white rabbit, you fhucking moron...
Fun fact. Neo was originally supposed to be digitally added to the last shot but during filming Keanu Reeves ended up just flying towards the camera so that's the take they use.
@@rsfilmdiscussionchannel4168 They were decent but not too much more than that. The first one stands out as great while the sequels are acceptable they just can't shine a light on the original
Supermovies a film that involves the end of the world on how we we’ll end our selfs meaning by our own mistakes as one special being fixes the problem as he manipulates it with extraordinary powers that he unfold like ripping threw a digital program very hot and extreme 😎
Michael :v one of my favorite keanu reeves movies ever made playing as a retired hit man and getting revenge on those that ever missed with him pure epic ness 😎
As long as you remember that you are no better or worse than anyone else. People are simply in different stages of development. But we are all inherently perfect.
"But we are all inherently perfect." We were at the Garden (of Eden), now we have been corrupted by sins. _Romans_ 3:23 Without Jesus we will be destroyed at the end of our lives or troughout it... Better seek Him while we are alive, bros.
I felt exactly like this walking out after the last day of a job I fucking hated. I felt 100 pounds lighter, I probably could have flown away if I tried hard enough.
This ending means so much more than people realize. It's about you, yourself, as an individual breaking thru the wall you've raised up for yourself and finally seeing your truest potential. You can do, feel, think so much more than you're led to believe. Its about beating anxiety, self doubt, and fear inside you keeping you from becoming the person you're are meant to be. It didn't need sequels or a continuation. In fact the movies that came after just strays further from the real message.
Its about realizing the illusion we live in. Realizing that we control whatever energy we put out into the world and we control our energy, hence we control our emotional states. It may require you to shift your core values, which causes an entire shift in ones reality. Many ppl will experience a DMT like psychosis. Some ppl never recover.
Steelbreeze420 That's what the sequel explore more of. The system crashes and reboots and we start over again. I saw a funny meme the other day that said in ten million years, people will read Harry Potter and think the events really happened and start wars over it. Neo may be the one, but he's still part of the cycle of human nature and belief.
RATM is perfect for the themes of this movie. I mean, most of their work is about resisting authority and the 'system' that the Matrix is a metaphor for. Literally perfect choice.
Yup, RATM are the epitome of anti establishment revolutionary lyricism and have the most badass riffs of all time. The Wachowski's could not pick a better band to represent their film.
I saw this movie by mistake and it was the best mistake that ever happened to me. Definitely one of the best movies I have ever seen I was on the edge of my seat through it all.
@@pizzatime3775 I saw Gladiator at the theater a few times. ( a friend dated a girl that worked at the theater so we got free passes all the time) I didn't see Blade Runner 2049 at the theater but man I wish I did, I thought they did a great job with it in every way and even tho he did not have very big role in the movie Dave Bautista was excellent. Just my opinion tho.
You're obviOusly like most of the zombies out there... THIS FILM WAS PERFECT, IN THE BEST TIME, 1999, THE END OF 20TH CENTURY AFTER THAT, things began shutting down, and the Zombies started to come out!
This movie is cinematic nirvana. The ending is so awe-inspiring and promises so much for the future of movies going into the 2000s. I remember this was the first time flying looked legit in a movie, and it's brilliant to save one of your best effects for the final shot.
If there was ever a movie that didn't need any sequels it's this one. It was perfectly self-contained and had a great ending. This is the only Matrix movie in my mind.
And the sequels do not follow the end of the original movie neither the plot. Rage against the machine. They are the enemy. He (in the Matrix) threatens the fucking machine to show the people a world without them, where anything is possible. And then he goes and flies to the sky!! Incredible. Best part of the movie.
It was awesome. The action scenes (first to use bullet time”), the kernel of that idea that everything is unreal… it was beautiful. It was ruined by the sequels. But this one is a masterpiece
The way I see it there's two ways you can look at this ending. For the people who can't stand sequels, him saying "Showing a world without you" and "Where we go from here is the choice I leave to you" Can be interpreted as him speaking to the audience saying, where the story of The Matrix goes is left up to your imagination, you can think of the possibilities for yourself ... Or you could look at it as this is only the beginning of this story, of things to come, and that there are many hints towards where it all goes in the future films e.g. when it says WARNING: Carrier anomaly, Neo's life being the eventuality of an anomaly, and Smith talking about the matrix being redesigned to be a perfect world (In this movie). That's the genius of this ending, if you want to know where the story goes, then start speculating, if you don't like sequels then let your imagination fly. Thank you Wachowski's for giving the audience credit and letting us decide things for ourselves with our own interpretations of your story, you are truly genius film makers and talented Sci-Fi storytellers, with shit loads of style!
They kind of had to make this sort of ending, they wanted to make a trilogy but would have had to stop there hadn't the first movie worked so well. It offers good closure if they can't make sequels, but also serves as a good transition to the other movies. It's like Star Wars : A New Hope. The Death Star is destroyed and the rebels win this battle, there's the ceremony at the end and everyone's happy. The whole thing could end right there if there's no money to keep it going. But Luke still isn't a jedi, The Empire is still omnipresent, Vader and Sidious are alive and well, the rebels are still repressed. These open endings are compulsory for directors who wish to make a series of movies but can't say if finances will follow, to stop whenever they need to stop if they really have to. Peter Jackson is the only director I know of who actually signed a contract for 3 consecutive big budget movies which is why LOTR endings in the first 2 movies don't resolve anything and only hint at how the story will progress.
I interpreted it in a different way. He's talking to the matrix. He's saying that when he puts down the phone, he's going to reveal to the world that the matrix exists, and he does that by flying in public. It is up to the machines to respond to that, maybe they can negotiate. The green text is supposed to be the machines trying to track down his call but failing. This ending would have stood as a good ending, if there were no sequels.
"I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you, a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries, a world where anything is possible. Where we go from there, is a choice I leave to you.".
EPIC on so many levels it just blows the mind. Not only artisticly but also on a socio-economic scale. This timeless classic is THE call the think for yourself and stay educated. Don’t follow the heard blindly but keep asking YOURSELF validate questions about what’s happening around you / to you. Me? I would (did) take the Red Pill any day of the week!
This movie is epic... Cartesianism, Platonism, Gnosticism, Buddhism, Christianity, simulation and hyperreality, so many philosophies and concepts that combined with an original plot and pioneering cinematography could not fail to entertain as well as make us ponder the same questions that philosophers and religious figures have grappled with for centuries and for that I will always be grateful to the Wachowskis.
I still get the same chills watching this scene as I did the first time seeing it. When I first saw it Neo flying wasn't even a thing I'd consider, but as it zoomed out and I heard the sound barrier breaking and then saw a black figure I was like "No F**KING WAY?! WHAT?!" and it still gets me. Perfect Film.
This is when the Matrix ended for me. This scene. There are no sequels. There may be movies which used the name to make money, but this is when the Matrix ended.
I remember watching this in the theater with my friends. When this song started playing, we popped HARD. Needless to say, we stayed until the end of the credits.
I still get chills hearing this. This is absolutely incredible. From start to finish this movie still just hits so goddamn hard. Life would have been ass to get yanked out of the matrix but this right here made it all worth it if it were possible.
Still gives me goosebumps, after all these years!! I remember that we were all watching it as a family, and we all chuckled at that last bit. My Mom: (Smiling) "Oh wow, he can fly now?" (Laughter from all of us)
@@michaelotis223 if they butchered the other songs form the matrix like minefields, dragula, and rock is dead I would have started a protest to ban the band who made that cover from ever being in a movie soundtrack ever again
One of the greatest ending shots ever. Look at that pan and the coreography of the extras. And the little smirk as he stares at the audience right before looking up. Absolutely phenomenal.
When this movie came out in ‘99, there was a choice to watch between The Phantom Menace (Blue Pill) and The Matrix (Red Pill). I went for The Matrix and the rest was history
Even Star Wars fans were throwing up the middle finger at the Phantom already, but besides that... The Matrix just came out of nowhere. There were so many long-overdue themes of neo-sci-fi all wrapped into one digestible package, yet these are all still relevant themes today. Do you choose escapism, or what is real? How close can machines come to emulating reality? (Given recent AI advancements, pretty close) Who is in charge?
Evangalex at @0:55 if you look closely to the right of the traffic light, you can see the Sydney Harbour Bridge!! This scene was shot on the corner of Pitt Street and Hunter Street just a block up from Martin Place.
I only noticed that on a recent re-watch, and I've seen this movie more than once every year for 20 years!! It's so subtle and doesn't beat you over the head
In case it is not obvious, this was entirely done on purpose. He is letting the audience know it is a simulation and to get up and leave the theater looking at the outside world in a different perspective. Truly top-class filmmaking.
Of course, "I show them ... a world without rules and BOUNDARIES..." that is on pourpose, he shows to the audience that also that rule and boundary is breakable as the rules of the system that is built around them to conceal the thruth which is "that you are a slave".
Scott Flynn that was the Blu Ray release in 2008 that changed the colour scheme in the “Matrix” scenes to make them sickly green to match the sequels colour schemes, the 2018 4KUHD release restored the colour timing back to what is was originally in 1999.
That's so weird, I just noticed it, and in my brain I thought "huh, it must have always been green." Nope, apparently not. My DVD was early 2000's, so that's funny how my brain did that.
Just saw the 20th anniversary re-release a week or so ago. Never saw this film in the cinema first time around, but seeing this scene for the first time must have been the coolest thing ever. Absolutely awesome.
I am back here after watching the pathetic end of Matrix Resurrection. It feels good to be home, with epic voice, message and the real RATM plus flying surprise ending.
