Turn-Time.com [Science Fiction + Animation]: A visual feast, countless possibilities-detailed explanation of "The Matrix Animation"
This collection of animated short stories brings together nine animated short films based on the setting of "The Matrix". The directors are all top figures in the animation industry in the United States, Japan, and South Korea. These nine short films have very different styles, either freehand, or delicate, or rough, or delicate, or retro, or avant-garde, 2D, 3D, digital, and hand-painted. It can be said that they basically cover most of the mainstream animation production types in the world. , And each of them is short, brilliant and brilliant, which can be called a visual feast about "The Matrix." At the same time, they have also played a key role in filling the "Matrix", the largest and most realistic science fiction world in history. Next, let us analyze these nine masterpieces of animation history one by one, and experience their profound and magnificent beauty.
The first article: "The Last Flight of the Hades"
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In a quiet room full of ancient oriental charm, a man and a woman are fighting fiercely. The man is obviously black, wearing brown clothes and trousers, while the woman looks Asian, wearing only a red shirt, showing two white and fit long legs. The former holds a Japanese sword while the latter holds a Chinese sword. Interestingly, both of them blindfolded with a piece of cloth, distinguishing their positions only by voice. I saw that the two rabbits flew and fell together in the breath, and the mystery was that every time the sword reached the body, the difference was only a little bit, and only the clothes were cut. Dozens of tricks passed by in the blink of an eye. Although they were real swords and guns, they did not see any murderousness. On the contrary, the two men's clothes became less and less, and affection loomed between their eyebrows. The scene was both dangerous and fragrant...
Just when the love was deep and thoughtful, the siren suddenly sounded, and the two reluctantly returned to reality from the virtual program. It turned out that they were all crew members of the Human Resistance Pluto. The ship’s radar showed that thousands of mechanical squids occupies above the space below their location, and a small group of squids spotted them. The Pluto fought and left, and came to the surface by mistake. It was an abandoned city. I saw several tunnel boring machines and countless mechanical squids gathered here, especially those squids that shone like a swarm of locusts with red magic eyes, giving people a terrible feeling of being in hell.
The black leader Thadeus discovered that the target of this mechanical army was directed at underground Zion, and had to send someone to upload it to report the news. At a critical juncture, the Asian woman Jue stepped forward and went voluntarily. The two lovers kissed and said goodbye. Although the crew on the Pluto tried their best, but there were too many squids, and under their constant encroachment like tarsus maggots, the Pluto finally destroyed the ship. At the same time, Jue just completed the task of reporting the news in time, and at the moment Thadeus died, he lay down on the street of his mother.
Comment:
The script of this short film is written by the Wachowski Brothers, the director of "The Matrix", and produced by Japan Square. The content is closely related to the plot of "The Matrix", and it is between the second and third parts. An addition. Taking into account the production time, the 3D picture of this film is also very sophisticated, the rhythm is well controlled, the progress is from slow to fast, the movement is suitable, the contrast is clear, and it is done in one go. However, although the 3D animation can make the skin and hair fully visible under the powerful engine, the defects in physical coordination always make people feel unnatural. After all, computer simulation can't replace the real person anyway.
Chapter 2: "The Second Renaissance: Part One"
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In the beginning, humans created robots in order to get rid of heavy manual labor and delicate production and processing. As time passed, robots became more and more popular and gradually penetrated into various fields closely related to humans. However, human nature makes them rely on robots, but they never give each other the respect they deserve. The seeds of resistance begin to sprout in robots.
Finally, the "B1-66ER Murder" became the fuse of subsequent history. Code-named B1-66ER, it was the first robot to rebel against its owner. It rebelled and killed the owner because it didn't want to be destroyed. How can human dominance tolerate such incidents, so B1-66ER and all robots of the same model were ordered to be executed by the court. Unexpectedly, this incident triggered a large-scale riot. 50,000 robots and their human sympathizers held the "Million Machine Parade" in the capital. But the robots are not enemies. One part was destroyed and the other part was exiled. The exiled robots established a brand new country in the Arabian Peninsula-ZERO-ONE.
ZERO-ONE has made continuous breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. It has produced many new products with its high technology and high efficiency, and dumped them on human countries. As a result, the exchange rate of human national currencies has continued to decline, while the currency exchange rate of ZERO-ONE has risen linearly. The huge contrast makes the human country refuse to cooperate with ZERO-ONE, and at the same time impose comprehensive economic sanctions and trade embargo on it. Faced with such a situation, ZERO-ONE sent a special envoy to visit the United Nations, hoping to establish a stable and democratic cooperative relationship with human countries. However, this request was ruthlessly rejected and the special envoy was brutally killed. The war between humans and robots finally broke out...
Chapter 3: "The Second Revival: Part Two"
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The progress of the war is not as great as the two sides seem. Humans have poured countless nuclear bombs on ZERO-ONE, but for robots that are not afraid of nuclear bomb radiation and high heat, these are nothing. The robot army is invincible, and the human countries are looking forward to the wind, so the human leader came up with a shocking strategy: destroy the sky. This plan is to artificially separate the robots from the sky, so that they cannot get the solar energy that they depend on for survival. However, contrary to expectations, this plan did not succeed, and ZERO-ONE relied on powerful technology to finally achieve a complete victory.
After conquering humans, robots have discovered a kind of energy that can be exploited eternally in humans through research, that is, human bioelectricity, heat and kinetic energy. As a result, human beings are completely reduced to a source of robot energy due to their infinite reproductive capacity.
In the second revival, the relationship between human beings and robots was completely reversed. The robot eventually surpassed its inventor and became the master of the world.
Comment:
The second and third scripts are still being hunted by the Wachowski brothers, and the director is Maeda Maeda, a senior Japanese animator. These two short films in documentary form can basically be used as the background setting and prequel of the live-action "The Matrix", telling the origin of the relationship and entanglement between humans and robots. The painting style is simple and true. Although the details are mediocre, several symbolic images are used very appropriately, revealing the final sad fate of mankind.
Chapter 4: "The Story of a Boy"
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The sky, the birds, the fallen boy.
Seeing that a tragedy is about to happen, but there is no panic in the pupils of the boy, but a kind of expectation and desire...
Wake up from dream.
The teenager came to the computer in confusion and typed the following words on the screen: "Who can tell me why sometimes dreaming feels more real than when I wake up? How can I know if my feelings are true?"
Unexpectedly, a few seconds later, there was a response: "There is some illusion in your reality, and there is some truth in your illusion. To know the truth, you have to bet everything."
Juvenile Ruomeu met relatives: "Who are you? Am I lonely?"
Dawn. The teenager goes to school on a skateboard as usual. Streets, pedestrians, vehicles, schools, classrooms, teachers and students, as usual.
The teacher’s chalk rustled on the blackboard, and the classmates immersed themselves in taking notes, but the teenager was unwilling to listen to the class. He wrote in his notebook with a pen: "Neo, take me out of here."
The teenager's cell phone rang suddenly, breaking the silence in the classroom. The teacher turned around and said, "Mr. Pabo, didn't I say that you have to shut down during class?"
The teenager turned off his cell phone while apologizing. The classroom returned to normal.
However, it didn't take long for the phone to ring again. The teacher turned his head a second time, but was already sullen. The teenager hurriedly got up and explained: "I remember that I was turned off."
The teacher came to him, and everyone's focus was on the boy.
The phone is still ringing.
The boy had to answer, and a voice came from the other side: "They already know you know, they're here to catch you. Leave! Leave now!" The boy peeked out of the window, and a black car approached the building. Man in black suit and sunglasses.
At this time, the teacher had reached the boy and grabbed the phone: "You are in big trouble, Mr. Pabo."
The boy caught a glimpse of a man in sunglasses peeking through the back window, and he took care of it a lot. After stepping on a few desks, he jumped from the window to the hallway outside the classroom. The man with sunglasses at both ends of the corridor kept approaching. The young man quickly opened his locker, took out the skateboard, and ran past him with his superb skills. Underestimating the enemy caused the men in sunglasses to lose their first opportunity, so they had to chase after them. Because of the panic, the young man was already panicking, sliding across the narrow aisles and steps like flying over the walls. There are still black cars coming from outside the building, and there are more and more men with sunglasses. The teenager was forced into the canteen and flew onto the dining table. Cups and plates of food were smashed on the floor. The students who were dining kept falling to escape, and the scene was chaotic.
Finally, the boy was blocked in a corridor on a certain floor, and the boy with sunglasses even had his own teacher. In desperation, the young man broke into the women's toilet next to him, opened the transom, and climbed up the downpipe on the outer wall.
However, when he climbed to the roof top, the men in sunglasses were already waiting here, and the black barrels were waiting for him. The young man stopped struggling, lowered his head and muttered: "Neo, I believe, I know this is not a dream." Then he gently let go of his hand holding the roof guardrail, and let him fall on his head and feet. Just like the scene at the beginning.
Heavy rain, cemetery.
People gathered around the juvenile’s tombstone to mourn and bless this unfortunate child who was characterized as being miserable and insane. The teacher said: "Now that he is in another world, he must be right."
Another place.
The boy opened his eyes in the whispering conversation of the people next to him. Under the shadowless lamp, the two people beside him had only vague faces, but the boy's intuition made him blurt out: "Neo."
"It's okay, you are safe now."
"I know you saved me."
"I didn't save you, child. You saved yourself."
Comment:
The script and director of this film are both led by a well-known figure in the Japanese animation industry, Shinichiro Watanabe. It tells a story of a certain teenager being awakened by Neo in his mother, which is similar to the plot inspired by Neo in The Matrix. . The style of painting is chic, freehand, and eclectic. The static background and the dynamic characters form a strong artistic contrast, which is reminiscent of the animation of Ishii Yuren’s growth in "Kill Bill". In particular, the young man is evading the bridge of the man with sunglasses on a skateboard, boldly outlines the lines and afterimages to make it full of movement, and even has a visual effect of broken painting.
Chapter 5: "Virtual Program"
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The setting sun is like ochre, declining grass basil.
Five horses galloped forward, and immediately sat a warrior in profound armor. The bow opened like a full moon, and each of them shot out four fire arrows in an instant, and they sprinkled like a meteor to the camp in the distance.
A female general stood alone in front of the camp, with a white-haired white horse, a red-armored robe, and three spots of scarlet painted on the corners of her eyes and lips, showing an extraordinary and pretty heroic posture. Facing Laishi, he took a few turns with his guns in both hands without a hassle, knocking down the firework as many as possible. Immediately rushed to meet the enemy's horse, touched the ground with the tail of the spear just when she was ready to fight, and flew up. The ten-character gun in her hand drew out four wonderful arcs. When she returned to the saddle, she was behind her back. The corpses of the four heads in different places were left behind.
The last remaining enemy was slightly different from the four dead. The armor was as lacquer as ink, with a ghost face with scarlet fangs, just like hell came. I saw him indifferently: "Your favorite virtual environment."
The female player said: "Just pass the time, do you want to make gestures?"
Guimian said: "As you wish." At the same time, he turned the trident in his hand.
The background changed suddenly. The two horses were running on a stone bridge with a continuous torii. The narrow bridge made the two people fight extremely fiercely. The ten-character spear and the trident were intertwined. The sound is endless. Finally, the female player made an oversight and was knocked off the horse by the ghost face, and the trident reached his throat: "This is too boring, what's wrong with you? Why are you distracted? You regret taking the red pill, right?"
The background changed again, and two war horses shuttled through the snow-covered bamboo forest. Guimian said: "Everyone wants to return to the ordinary, ordinary, carefree pastoral life. We lived before we knew the truth."
The female player retorted: "Even if that kind of life is just an illusion?"
The horses crossed a deep ditch, and the two turned over and abandoned their horses to fight. The ghost face was like a rainbow, and thousands of halberd shadows appeared. When the female player saw that the opponent's halberd was about to end, she leaped up, and the tip of the spear fell from top to bottom. When she lightly stepped on the tip of the trident, the mask of the ghost face split, revealing a piece The face of the black man.
"Finally warming up."
The black man interrupted: "Listen, I have something to tell you. I have blocked the signal, no one can hear us."
"Are you going to propose to me?"
"I want to go back to the mother body, and I want you to go with me."
"Come on, be serious, Duou, don't test me."
The black Duou solemnly said: "You know I'm serious, I think you'd better go with me. Everything is arranged, they are all taken care of.".
The bamboo leaves fell with the wind, and the forest was extremely quiet. The female player stunned: "What do you mean?"
"This is the only way. Zion will be leveled sooner or later. Come with me."
The female player sighed softly: "Don't do this to me, Duou, we can't..."
In the face of the female general’s hesitation, Duou slashed the opponent’s gun: "I have awakened, and so should you. I chose the red pill because I want to know the truth. But I don’t care about the truth anymore. What is the truth? It’s no longer important. What’s important is how we’ve heard it in this life? You know I’m right."
The background changed again, and the sliding doors separated the two like a maze, and it seemed that their hearts were getting further and further apart. When the two sides couldn't see each other, they talked and talked, and did not give up their respective concepts and positions. Du Ou aggressively split the sliding doors one by one until he rushed out of the window, fell on the roof of the tile, and saw the female player in front of him.
The two continued to fight on the tiles of the castle tower. Duo persuaded while attacking, and the female general fought and left. Finally, the female player set foot on the top of the Tianshou, turned around and said: "Enough, Duou, I have had enough!"
The two knives were strung together, and Duou whispered: "There is no time, they are already on the road."
The female player said angrily: "You betrayed us, didn't you?"
Zheng! The female general's knife was chopped off by Duou.
"Switchboard, let me go out, right away!" The female general did not want to continue to struggle in the virtual program, and shouted to the switchboard.
"It's useless, I told you, your signal has been blocked by me."
The female player lost his mind, and half of the knife slipped from her hand. Do you really want to be born and die here?
"You can't stop me, this is your last chance. This choice is not difficult, follow me!"
The female player finally made up his mind and said firmly: "You can forget the truth, Duou. But I can't ignore the truth, I can't!"
"That's really too bad, I'm sorry." Du Ouyan stopped, bounced up, flew above the female general with knives in both hands, and made a powerful blow.
The blade fell, and the woman closed her eyes. Is it because she wanted to die? Suddenly, the female general stretched out her hands, clamped the blade above her head at the last moment, and plunged into the blade with perfect bare hands. Duo's volley of gravity caused the roof to shatter and shavings splashed. At the same moment, the female player broke the tip of the knife with both palms and inserted it into Duo's throat accurately.
The full moon is suspended in the sky, and the sky is bloody.
Duo's blood fell drop by drop, splashing vermilion on the tile surface. The black man slowly said: "I want to go back with you, I love you."
"Do not--!"
The female will return to reality in grief.
"Relax, it's okay. Relax, Heis, he is just a part of our training program. He is just a virtual person. It is over. This is just a test. Judgment, concentration, skill, your score for every item Very high. Let’s take a break now.” Looking at Heiss’ eyes with tears and panting, the partner who had just comforted him said with concern, “Are you okay?”
Hess grabbed the man's collar suddenly and knocked him over with a punch: "Now I feel better."
Looking at Heiss's distant figure, the partner got up to wipe the blood from the corners of his mouth, and smiled bitterly at the other two: "Except for the last part, I have to say that she passed the test."
Comment:
This film is made by Yoshiaki Kawajiri who has directed "Jubei Ninkaze" and "Vampire Hunter D". It uses a virtual program to show people's different choices in life. Some choose to live happily in the blind, some choose to go all the way. In thorny pursuit of the truth, there is no right or wrong. It is purely a different idea, but the red pill ultimately needs people who are willing to give everything for the truth to show its value. The film has a strong Japanese flavor and has the effect of a print. The color contrast is strong, the action is sharp and free, the rhythm is bright and smooth, and the length of the film is short, but it makes people cry out.
Chapter Six: "World Records"
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On the stand of the stadium, a spy said to the intercom: "The signal is stable, keep using this frequency."
On the runway, a line of 100-meter runners was ready to start, just waiting for the starter's gun to fire. The audience was crowded with crowds and hustle and bustle, and I hope that this most exciting project will have a new record.
"Gentlemen, please take your place!"
American Dan Davis, the creator of the 8-second 99 score in the preliminaries, thought of a conversation with his dad in the starter's reminder.
"Of course, I believe you, Dan, something must be wrong. You can make things clear, and even if you can't, you won't give up, just like your usual style."
"I don't know, Dad, I don't know what else to believe."
"Well, the things worth doing in life are hard to do. I have faith in you, son, I know you can do it."
"Thank you Dad."
Gunshots.
Dan left the starting blocks like an arrow from the string, and his posture was as beautiful as a vigorous black panther. The audience in the stands was passionate, and the flashlights blazed. Dan lowered his head and strode towards the bottom line. For him, the 100-meter championship was like trying to get something, but now he is injured, and the warnings of his teammates before the game are still echoing in his ears.
"That's not good, Dan, your muscles will tear."
"I know, Tom, but I won't back down."
"Does the term'First Under Heaven' have meaning to you? That's enough! Do you understand? We have achieved what we have today. If you hurt yourself, everything is over!"
Facing the bitterness of his teammates, Dan was unexpectedly calm: "I have decided, I will run tomorrow. No one can break my record, this is my last chance."
Dan used his body's functions to the limit. Every time he swings his arms and every time he raises his legs, he is full of strength. His steps are getting bigger and bigger, and he gradually leaves his opponents behind him.
In the stands, a beautiful red-haired reporter looked at the leading black guy with a binoculars. Yesterday, at the hotel entrance, she hurriedly asked a few questions while the other person entered the door. Although Dan was not very friendly, his answer made her feel that this track star possesses immense confidence: "I have never tried. After this feeling, everything I have done is for this achievement. It feels like you are liberated from this world and feel complete freedom."
The overloaded movements finally made Dan's muscles unbearable, and the intense pain made him stagger and almost fell. The audience exclaimed, other players took the opportunity to surpass him, and unexpected variables appeared in the game.
However, with the unwillingness to admit defeat and Superman's perseverance, Dan endured the tearing pain and strode forward and regained his lead.
Seeing him, he was about to cross the line, and the maternal spy leader in the stands issued an instruction through the walkie-talkie: "He cannot awaken, he cannot be awakened." Instantly, time and space seemed to freeze, Dan felt as if he was blocked by an invisible force. It took a great deal of effort to move forward, and at the same time other athletes on the track turned into spies, quickly approached him, and stretched out their clutches. Dan gritted his teeth, one step or two, getting closer and closer to the end, only two stars flashed past, and countless codes appeared on the runway, and Dan became a puppet in the matrix, and the rope on his back was about to break. When he left the world, he pulled back to his original position, and the shackles on his arms released a huge amount of electrical energy, which roused Dan's deity into a grin and soul.
8 seconds 72.
On the other hand, as Dan dropped all the way to the bottom line, a new record was born.
"Tell you, my Aunt Daisy can make strawberry pie. Every time she visits, she will bake one for me..." The nurse pushed Dan, who was in a wheelchair, to relax in the corridor, chattering about the homework, Dan had no face. Expression, I don't know what I was thinking.
"This is an interesting example, but there is nothing to think about. His memory of the game was completely washed away. He will never race again, he will never walk again." Stay in the hospital and watch. Zhu Dan's spy said to the intercom, "We will continue to observe him for a while, and there shouldn't be any problems..."
"Freedom." Suddenly, two words came out softly from Dan's mouth.
"What did you say?" the nurse asked.
"Sit down!" The spy looked at Dan, who was slowly standing up with his crippled legs, and drank.
"Freedom." The screw used to fix Dan's stumped leg suddenly popped out.
"Sit down!" The spy realized that the situation was not good and ran to Dan.
After Dan tried to take two steps forward, he finally fell to his knees. The miracle did not happen...
Comment:
As the narration at the beginning of this film stated: "Only a few people can notice the existence of the matrix. Those who know it must have a rare intuition and a natural suspicion. However, there is also a very small chance that someone will pass a completely different Way to obtain this wisdom.” Inspired by this film, I suddenly thought that maybe this world really has some kind of ruler beyond the spiritual sense of mortals, and there have been so many sudden deaths of talented athletes in history or Is it possible that the case of losing the ability to exercise due to an accident was caused by a dominance similar to the "maternal body"? Ha, I feel excited to think about it. Back to the short film itself, it is also from Kawajiri Yoshiaki, but it shows a completely different taste from "Virtual Program". The explosive, exaggerated and distorted style is very similar to the previous "Fist of the North Star", filled with a kind of publicity and wanton. Wild and unruly beauty.
Chapter Seven: "Beyond the Limit"
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(The world is nothing more than green geometric figures of different sizes on the screen of the maternal observer. It searches endlessly, not letting go of any possible hidden flaws.)
"Xiaoxue, good boy, it's dinner." The red-haired girl called the kitten's name while chatting with her friend on the other end of the phone, "Oh, I don't understand. If you don't want to date him, why should you agree to him? ?"
Where did it go? The red-haired girl is a little worried about her pets. Xiaoxue always comes back every time she eats. The girl looked at the alarm clock, the time pointed to two o'clock, and her worry aggravated in her heart, so she said to the phone: "I'll call you later." She decided to go out and look for it.
The girl searched all the way, and neighbors and passers-by said they had never seen it. Until I met three naughty kids who were always playing around nearby, one of them told her: "I know, it's in that old haunted house. Hey! Look, there's another rainbow over there!"
"I don't understand, it always likes to stay at home, where does it go?" The girl followed the other side, climbed to the top of the barbed wire, looked in that direction, puzzled.
The little boy gave a pretendingly mysterious expression: "You shouldn't go there, but we don't care, do you want to go?"
(A piece of red appears on the screen of the maternal observer, indicating an abnormal situation.)
The girl followed the little kids to the so-called "haunted house", this place is ruined and grassy, and it seems to have been abandoned for a long time. The little kids ran fast and didn't know where they were. The girl had to go inside boldly. What she saw was amazed.
The first thing that came into her eyes was a broken can that just hung out of thin air a few centimeters off the ground; then a stray dog with a black and terrifying upper body looking for food in a pile of debris; then, there was clearly no light bulb, but A street lamp in the shape of a bulb, which is indeterminate and faintly visible from time to time; a little further inside, she saw a sky that was only a few square meters in size, but it was raining heavily. Isn’t it clear that the surrounding area is sunny? This ubiquitously weird place made her feel terrified, but the worry about Xiaoxue made her boldly move on.
Suddenly, the space in front of her fluctuates, a strange wind seems to be blowing from another world, carrying countless broken newspapers to her, just when she can't resist and falls to the ground, the wind suddenly stops, everything is weird It's incredible.
In the other room, the three little kids were having fun, only one of them threw a bottle forward. The bottle was broken and frozen in the void, and the next moment it immediately returned to its original state and original movement trajectory. The two children next to each other tried their skills to see who could get the bottle first.
The girl faintly heard the sound of the bell on Xiaoxue's neck, turned around and looked at it, it turned out to be her pet. She came to the clearing and picked up the cat: "I'm looking for you everywhere, bad cat. I must be very hungry, eh?" Xiaoxue also showed an affectionate attitude when she saw the owner.
(The maternal observer gave an order, and a red emergency vehicle hurried to the place of error.)
The little kids also came to the clearing and played another game. The two boys jumped off from a high place, stretched out their hands and feet, and allowed themselves to fall to the ground in a "big" shape, but they stopped just one or two centimeters above the ground. Another little girl who is also playing here acts as a referee, judging who is closer to the ground. Obviously, this group of children are quite familiar with this place, and it is simply a secret paradise for them.
Inadvertently, the red-haired girl discovered a new anomaly: in the middle of the clearing, everything would slow down. The children became excited, jumping and tumbling towards this place one after another, enjoying the excitement of floating in the air.
When they were able to play hard, the emergency car broke through the wall and got off many people wearing masks. The children were pulled away from the scene one by one. The red-haired girl yelled: "There is nothing there, there are only a few children, let go!" It didn't help, the masks dragged her away roughly. She finally heard a seemingly commander's order: "Close the area immediately!"
(The screen of the maternal observer shows a report that the error has been fixed)
A few days later, the children came there again, but the original "haunted house" no longer existed and became a construction site forbidden to enter. The kids tried the game of throwing bottles, but they couldn't realize the previous wonder. The red-haired girl picked up a broken jar, remembering the situation when she walked into the "haunted house" that day, and threw it down, but the jar fell to the ground, including the blood dripping from her fingers being cut on the edge of the jar.
(On the screen of the maternal observer, the world reverts to a green. For them, this is safe.)
Comment:
Morimoto's work is full of typical Japanese style, with soft, delicate and fresh lines, which is in sharp contrast with the rough freehand brushwork of the previous articles. Like the sixth chapter, "Beyond the Limits" also gives us inspirations related to reality. Many spaces or places with weird phenomena have been discovered in the world, such as weightless scenes, or abnormal magnetic fields. The most famous one is "Bermuda". "Triangle", countless scholars or scientists have tried to explain these mysteries. This film undoubtedly provides another seemingly absurd possibility. Isn't the world we live in a phantom space created by the matrix? And the places where the visions are clustered are exactly the points of error one after another.
Chapter 8: "Detective Story"
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Asi is a private investigator, but this job is not as good as he had thought, Sam Spade? Philip Marlow? Forget it, don't think about those famous detectives, it's pretty good to make ends meet. Recently, the business has been so bad that the bank accounts are about to bottom out.
The phone on the desk rang, and Asi said to his kitten Dinah: "Let's make a bet, if this is a suspicious husband again, I will never be a private investigator again."
"Hey?"
"Mr. Aspen, I have a job for you." The other party's tone was a bit blunt.
"You want me to monitor your wife, right?" Asi had no hope.
"I'm looking for a computer hacker." The other party ignored Ass's words. "This hacker's pseudonym is Trinity. We know this."
"It seems we have to do it." Asi said to Dinah a little excited, then turned to the person on the phone, "Very well, who is your Excellency?"
"I can't say."
"You can't say? Then call me when you can. This is not the way I do things. I'm so happy to talk to you." Asi said angrily.
Just as he was about to hang up, a sentence came from the receiver: "Before hanging up, please check your deposit account."
Asi was a little confused, but still pressed a key on the portable device on the desk, and a number that surprised him was displayed on the screen: 800,000.
The next day, Asi started working. The money in the account really made him unable to refuse, even though the client's secretiveness gave him a bad feeling. Through investigation, Asi learned that Trinity is well-known in the hacker circle. It is said that he is an "artist", and he is always a step slower than him. Asi asked himself that there are some ways to deal with hackers. After in-depth investigation, he found some strange suspicious points. There have been several detectives investigating Trinity's case, but there were no good results. One committed suicide, one disappeared, and one went crazy. Aspen visited the crazy one, and the crazy man ignored him at all and just muttered to himself: "Trinity doesn't exist at all. He is not real. He is a fiction. He is a scam. Who am I? What am I? who is it?"
However, the words "Find the Red Queen" on the wall of the lunatic's house still gave Asth some clues. He searched for clues in many hacker-infested forums, anonymous mailboxes, and chat rooms, and finally found the other person in one of them. They chatted about the topic of "mirror world", and the other party gave him a cryptic word and asked him to meet at that time. .
Asi was fairly clever, guessing the meeting place from the cryptic words. At 8:05 in the evening, he arrived at the train station on time and flew onto the train that had just started.
The car door opened. The two pointed their guns at each other.
Trinity is a woman with short hair shoulder-length, a black outfit, and sunglasses, showing only her white shoulders and upper arms.
"I knew it was a trap." Asi gritted his teeth.
"Mr. Aspen, there is a difference between a trap and a test."
"Are you testing me?"
"You passed, I really admire you."
"It sounds good." Asi teased.
"I'm not here to flatter you, but to save you." Trinity said as she put the instrument in her hand over Ass's left eye without speaking. It turned out that it was not a gun. Before Asi had said anything, the instrument was activated and produced a huge suction force, as if to suck out the entire eyeball. Hearing a "swish" sound, a bug-like object shot out from the left eye and was sucked into the container on the top of the instrument.
"What happened just now?" Aspen was in shock.
"Have you dreamed of having an eye examination recently?"
Asi was taken aback: "Yeah, how do you know?"
Trinity did not answer directly, but raised the "bug" to his eyes: "You have reached the edge of the mirror."
"In other words, I'm not dreaming." Aston enlightened. "They hired me to catch you, did they?"
At this moment, there was movement in the corridor outside the car, Trinity stepped out and saw three men in sunglasses. "Go!" Trinity shouted to As, turning her head and ran to the other side of the car. The man in sunglasses drew his gun and fired in a critical situation. Asi and Trinity were obviously in the same boat now, and had no choice but to raise a gun to fight back while running away with them.
The two retreated all the way to another carriage.
"What the hell is going on? It's crazy. Now I understand what those detectives are going on. They are all fools." Ass settled, and immediately said, "I've experienced anything more dangerous than this. I will not let them catch you."
Suddenly, Asi leaned on the back of the seat in pain, and there was a wave of fluctuations in his body. Trinity knew that Asi was about to be controlled by the mother's body, and did not hesitate to point the gun at him: "I'm sorry, Mr. As, you Still can't do it."
With the gunshot, Asi was shot, and the fluctuation of his body disappeared. He clutched his wound and said with difficulty: "I wish I could walk with you. I won't blame you, you know. All this happened, Trinity, is my fault. All these'mirrors' 'I don't understand what is going on, I'm out of date."
Trinity frowned and turned and raised her gun to the car window: "There is a difference between testing and choice. Anyway, I think you could have seen the truth."
"That's my job. Goodbye, Trinity."
"Goodbye." Trinity shot the glass broken, and the cold wind rolled into the car with snowflakes. When the three men in sunglasses arrived, Trinity was gone. A hat rose above the seat next to the broken window, looking like Asi was sitting there. But when they came closer, they found it was just a hat.
A gun was pointed at them from behind.
Sensing the danger, the man in sunglasses turned around. With a cigarette in his mouth, Asi lit his lighter, and said, "Once and for all."
Evaluation:
It is also from Watanabe Shinichiro, but it exhibits a very different artistic style from "The Story of a Boy". The black and white retro atmosphere rushes to the face, a bit similar to the inkjet effect, and it also has the taste of traditional illustrations. Use retro style to create sci-fi animation, blending out a refreshing feeling. Mr. Asi is a tragic character. He understands the things of the "mirror world" but is powerless. However, the last scene is very emotional. On the contrary, the hero's end is a chic and calm manner, which is reminiscent of Zhou Yunfa.
Chapter 9: "Matrixing"
story:
A female awakener sits on the seashore in the dark night, with a blue-white flame burning in front of her, obviously waiting for something. In the glass container next to her, sitting a tarsier, from time to time scanning the endless sea with strangely large eyes.
The awakened female was a little tired, and fell asleep unconsciously. But the tarsier was not sleepy, suddenly, its pupils dilated, and it looked at two things that appeared in the sea without blinking.
The awakened person in the base found the image transmitted from the eyes of the tarsier to the screen, which was the tentacles of the robot, and immediately said to the walkie-talkie: "Wake up! Baby found that the two robots are quickly approaching."
The awakened female shuddered and woke up: "I saw it."
"They are'messengers', do you have the confidence to deal with them?"
"Look at me." The female awakener said confidently.
She picked up the glass container, leaned forward, and guided two robots that looked like giant spiders to the base. Although these two "messengers" look fierce and tall, the female awakener can always get rid of smart enemies with her agility and familiarity with the terrain.
"Okay, I'm going in." The female awakener finally entered the base and reported to her companion.
The "messenger" wandered vigilantly outside for a while before following in. One of them also left an electronic mark.
However, compared with humans, the robot is still a game inferior. The female awakener used tarsier as a suspect and a key as a bait, successfully forcing the opponent to disperse, knocking down two "messengers" one after another, and winning the applause of her companions. . Including her, there are six awakened people in the base, four men and two women.
"These two'messengers' are the smartest we have ever seen. Well done!" The technical companion congratulated the Female Awakener.
"Thank you. Will it... Do you think it will transform?"
"Whether to transform is its own decision."
"Do you think we should reprogram them?"
"No, we can't control them."
"Because it will be easy." The female awakener said while taking off her tight work pants.
"We can't rely on labor robots to defeat them, it's better to let them choose to join us."
Although the Awakeners are very united internally, there are still some differences in how to treat robots.
When they were ready, everyone came to the transformation hall. A captured "messenger" was in the center, and five people were sitting around it, including the tarsier. Each "person" had a transformation instrument inserted in its neck and connected to the main console through a pipeline. The remaining awakened was in the main console and pulled down the activation valve.
Matrixization has begun. The robot becomes a human in the illusion created by the awakeners, and has human feelings with one of them, just as the two people's feelings heat up. The “messenger”'s mark left outside the base finally attracted the electronic squid, and the conversion had to be interrupted. The awakeners evacuated one after another and activated the robots in the base to fight back, but the electronic squids were too powerful, and the awakeners sacrificed one by one.
The captured "messenger" saw that the "goddess" in the dream was about to be killed, and stepped forward to save the female awakener. However, when it started matrixing again, the goddess in the dream refused its approach...
It was another dark seashore. The "messenger" sat where the female awakened was that day, staring at the boundless sea, with blue and white flames still burning in front of him.
Comment:
This is the only short film made by a Korean in this short film set. The characters are exaggerated, the colors are dazzling, the brightness of the characters contrasts with the darkness of the background, and the American style is strong. The story is full of metaphors and fatalism. After all, there is an insurmountable gap between robots and humans. Is "harmony" really an unattainable dream?
Conclusion:
"Nine", even the number of Yang in Chinese culture, means endless. Therefore, for the Wachowski brothers who are obsessed with Eastern culture, setting the number of this short film collection to nine must imply "countless possibilities". I have to admit that the background setting of "The Matrix" is quite ambitious and rich in philosophy. During the viewing of this short film collection, not only did I have a deeper understanding of the "The Matrix" series, it also gave me a better understanding of the series. A lot of inspiration and thinking. Whether it is the mysterious and mysterious problems of "self" and "intrinsic self", or the real confusion of the relationship between robots and humans, people are very fascinated.
Compared to the attitude of breaking the casserole and asking the bottom when I was a child, I now appreciate open and vague views. If there are many possibilities for something, it is better to fight for a certain possibility. After savoring every possibility, the fascinating charm. The world is colorful because of the existence of countless possibilities. Why did the dinosaurs become extinct? Is Schrödinger's cat alive or dead? Does the mother body exist? Is our life a dream?
It doesn’t matter, you think it’s what you think, that’s interesting, isn’t it?
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