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Do you remember a couple of weeks
ago when we were talking about the Copa

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Cabana and like the songs, you
actually don't know what the song is about.

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Yes, Copa Cabana is much much
darker right than I could have ever

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imagined. All I want to do
is make love to you. Is about

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a woman using a man for his
seed to have a child. Like you

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don't know that's what it's about.
I was listening, I had like my

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I was walking the other day through
Brooklyn and the song come sail Away came

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on, Come sail away, Come
sail away, Come sail away, hillo

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away with me. That's about an
alien abduction. Are we sure? Well?

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A gathering of angels appeared above my
head. They sang to me the

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song of Hope, and this is
what they said, Come sail away,

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et cetera, et cetera. Then
the next verse, I thought that they

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were angels, but to my surprise, we climbed aboard their starship and headed

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for the skies. Oh, it
feels like a third verse about anal probes

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would not be completely unexpected when you
listen to the lyrics come sail Away.

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Yeah, I'm true. Interesting.
There's a metaphor in there somewhere about following

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your dreams forever. But what they
describe is someone thinking they're getting raptured and

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then instead being abducted by aliens.
Wow, it's called dark. Hey,

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I'm Paul and America and this is
that aged. Well, yesterday's pop culture.

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Today Mother's Day. May we're giving. We're giving our mothers a month,

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not just today. We're two mothers
who love our mothers. That's right,

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even though if you really think about
the term we're two mothers, what

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we're saying is we're two motherfuckers who
love our mothers. That's gross too.

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If you think that's also that's also
weird. That's weird. I've made it

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weird. I made it weird.
Congratulations, you've ruined the entire month for

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me. I didn't have to point
that out to anyone. We are doing

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films directed by women this entire month. Little known fact, Paul. A

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lot of people don't know this.
Women can direct movies too. It's not

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illegal. Not only are we going
to talk about four films this month,

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but there were other films that we
could have talked about, yeah, that

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were also directed by women. There
have been up to ten films directed by

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women since the beginning of Hollywood in
nineteen twenty three, or what tens and

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tens of films? No, no, no ten, just ten, just

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ten. I don't want you to
get your numbers wrong. All right,

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before we get too far ahead of
ourselves, though, we do have a

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five star Apple podcast review. Shall
I read for you? Yes? Please?

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All right? This is from Lindsey. Okay, I'm trying to I'm

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trying to act the name. It's
Lindsay with an exclamation point and then K

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Lindsay. Okay. My only wish
is there was a question mark after K

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Lindsey, K Lindsey. K kind
of thing. Anyway, Lindsay writes tens

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tens, tens across the board.
I am officially addicted to this podcast.

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My sister got me hooked a few
months ago, and I have literally listened

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every day since, catching up on
all the archives when I'm washing up for

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bed, aged, when I'm driving
to work, aged, when i'm doing

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the dishes. Aged. Thank you
for giving me a chance to laugh each

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and every day. Putting in a
request for future episodes. Just one of

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the guys pretty in Pink, once
Bitten some kind of wonderful. Keep them

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coming, you two. Thank you
again. Paul. Have we not done

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some kind of wonderful yet? We
have not done any of these? Oh

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my god, I had it in
my head that we had Nope. Oh

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you know what, We're gonna scrap
this episode and just make this some kind

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of wonderful month. We're just gonna
do some kind of wonderful all months.

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Sorry, moms, you're canceled.
Canceled it is instead John Hughes month.

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Yeah, it is some kind of
wonderful month. Paul. That's really portant

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here. I know you've many times
told me that I would love some kind

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of one. It would be a
John Hughes that would that would turn me

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around a little bit on John Hughes. So good. It is so good.

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I realize you're not saying that about
pretty in pink. Pretty in pink

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is not perfect. I'm not Pretty
in pink has flaws. There's cracks.

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Oll I love it? Yes?
Is it flawed? Sure? Who cares?

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Lindsey Kay, thank you so much
for this Apple Podcast review. If

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you would like a toe bag that
you could show off to your sister and

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make your sister jealous, get her
to write another review. You just let

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us know and I will send it
off for you right away. Erica,

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what is the first the first movie
we are doing on this The month of

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All Female Directors, All Female Director
Month kicks off with a sci fi bang,

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y'all. Today's film is The Matrix. Yes, The Matrix was a

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directed not by not one woman,
but two women. That's right, right

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now, we're getting crazy. I
forgot to say nineteen ninety nine sci fi

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epic The Ma The Matrix was requested
by Sidney Sonny in a Patty, Brian,

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Marissa and John. It was written
and directed by the Wakowski siblings and

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it stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving,

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and Joe Pantoliano. Joe Pantoliano is
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to Martin Scorsese. He's their muse. I will not take any questions,

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there will be no there will be
no discussion. He is what Emma Stone

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is to Yorgos Lanthemos. No one
brings out the best in Joey Pants like

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Joey Pants. The Wakowskis understand Joey
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didn't know Joey Chance exactly. The
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they know him inside and out.
He is so good in this movie

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that you forget he's supposed to be
a computer hacker. Joe Pantoliano aged,

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I don't know forty three. It's
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movie. That is the premise,
and yet it fucking works. What if

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this movie, what if the Wakowskis
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had just cast like Johnny Lee Miller, Angelina Joe Lee, and Matthew Lillard

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from Hackers as the futuristic hackers in
The Matrix. Uh you want to hear

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my actual synopsis for this movie.
I'll just tell you it right now.

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Yeah, actual synopsis. What if
Hackers and Enter the Dragon had a baby,

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Yeah, that would be this movie. That's this movie. Yeah.

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Yeah. The Matrix was nominated for
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Sound Effects Editing, Best Film Editing, and Best Visual Effects. You know

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what I call that? Paul a
sweep that's inside the park home run.

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This was American Beauty Year, so
it certainly aged better than the Best Picture

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winner. It's her, it did. Actually, you're right. Uh.

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Lily Wakowski has said the film was
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from a closeted point of view,
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her trans identity was coming forward when
writing the film. Wooh, that's super

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interesting. I'd not heard that quote
before. Very interesting. I mean one

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of the reasons that we were we
thought it's kind of cool to do this

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movie in this month because for anyone, I would imagine anyone listening knows this,

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but both of the Wakowski siblings are
trans women. But they directed this

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film prior to coming out, Yes
as women. When you watch the film,

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it says directed by the Wakowski brothers, right, So it's really an

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interesting watch to watch this movie with
all of the hindsight that that them coming

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out provides it only it only improves
the movie. Frankly, Yeah, really,

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you know what's funny, Paul is
I didn't even think of that while

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I was watching the movie this week. Oh really, it's just super interesting.

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I'm curious, Like, as we
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the film, like where that's going
to become more and more clear. That

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that was like, that was like
a subtle subtext of the writings as Lily

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Wlakowski was writing it. Yeah.
Absolutely. The Matrix has an eighty three

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percent critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes and
an eighty five percent audience score. It

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has an eighty six on cherry Picks. This is the most closely aligned ever,

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very bunched up. Yeah, I
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of these. I could see why
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a little lower than the other two, only because at the time I think

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some of the performances in this film
were maligned, specifically when mister Keanu Reeves

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and as we have said before,
this is a pro Keanu Reeves podcast.

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I agree, this is a pro
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have been one of those naysayers.
Of course, we've grown who was like

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but everyone knows Keanu's terrible in that
movie. And then I watched it again

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this week. Keanu is not terrible
in this movie. Keanu is fulfilling the

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fucking brief. He is excellent in
this movie. It's not even He's not

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even just good. Excellent. I
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this movie has a lot of ideas, like a lot of ideas, and

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they are they are Jackson pollocking the
wall with ideas and some of them.

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And I'll say right now, I've
never seen any of the any of the

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sequels, so I don't know if
some of those ideas come back, if

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they're if they're seating something for later
to bring it back around. But like

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the very popular sci fi ideas that
humans are not mammals, they are the

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virus, right like that comes up, it comes and goes, barely explored,

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it all like that just flies right
past in one line. So I

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could see a a reviewer being like, it's a little confused, which,

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having watched it now twice this week, I think I can actually pretty confidently

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say I can explain the matrix to
somebody. It all tracks. I do

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get it. I understand what the
purpose is. But they're they're throwing a

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lot at the screen and some of
it does not matter. Yeah, and

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you kind of have to like let
some of that go. So I can

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see a reviewer being like, well, why is it there then, which

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is a completely fair, fair take
on the did you ever see Jupiter Ascending?

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No, but you have told me
it is a watch unlike any other.

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That is the apex of the Wakowski
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I am a little surprised the audience
rating isn't higher. I was expecting this

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to be ninety five percent audience rating. You know what, That's true.

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This movie made a huge, huge
impact in American cinema. Like I don't

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think we can adequately describe the impact
it had in visual style for the next

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twenty years, in fight choreography for
the next twenty years. I mean,

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I'm not saying this is the first
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an American film, or even in
a movie that was popular in America.

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I would say Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon laid to the groundwork for this.

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But like, this movie became a
runaway sensation. Everyone had to see it.

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Everyone was talking about it, everyone
was parodying it. Everyone dressed as

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these people for Halloween, you know
that year. The visual style of American

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filmmaking just changed after this. It's
really fun to be able to talk about

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one of these totally so Erica.
When did you first see the Matrix?

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Were you one of the people who
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see it in the theater. Really, I don't know why. I think

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I was in college and I was
busy and I just wasn't paying attention,

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and I saw it after the fact. I saw it. I think what

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happened was I had a similar conversation
with someone who was like, you've never

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seen the Matrix. Yeah. I
was like, oh, oh, you

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got to see the Matrix, and
so I read this. Was it a

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man? Was he like? Oh
my god, if you know me,

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let me watch the Matrix with you. Cau's still confusing, So I'll make

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sure I'm going to explain it to
you so you don't get confused with your

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woman brain. I just need to
explain this to you. No, No,

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I don't think it was a man. I'm not sure who it was.

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But I had a conversation with several
people who were like, well,

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you're missing a moment in American culture
if you're not watching the Matrix because everyone's

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talking about it. And I was
like, you know what, You're right.

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So I rented it. I was
probably in my early twenties when I

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watched it for the first time.
Okay, really was not expecting what I

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got. I was expecting, like
a fun action movie. I didn't really

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care, Like I was like,
this is gonna be lame. I whatever,

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it's gonna be all flash, no
substance. And I was blown away

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by it. I really really loved
it the first time I saw it.

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I've seen one of the sequels,
maybe two of the sequels. I can't

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I can't really pinpoint how many of
the sequels I've seen. Okay, this

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one I've seen a couple of times
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this week for maybe like the third
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it's not my general cup of tea. Actually, this is not usually the

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kind of movie I gravitate towards.
Yeah, I would say it's a little

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I think you prefer your action movie
is a little dumber than this movie.

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I like veage and dumb. I'm
gonna ding the movie hard today on the

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gun violence in it, and like
I have a thing with movies even before,

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like you know, all the violence
in the past twenty years, when

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a movie gets too loud and too
like gun violent, y and I and

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I don't believe the stakes are high
because I'm like, well, they're not

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going to kill Counter Reeves. You
can show me ten minutes of someone firing

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a gun at Kanta Reeves, but
it's boring. Yeah, you know,

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this movie manages to subvert those expectations, though, Like I was expecting that,

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and it was much more interesting than
that. There is a little bit

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of that. There are definitely moments
where I'm like, oha, definitely let's

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move on. I'm done, but
it doesn't indulge in those moments too much,

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and it's the stylistically like unimpeachable.
Yeah, how about you, Paul,

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when did you first see the Matrix? I think I saw this in

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the theaters, unlike you, you
are in on the I was, yes,

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exactly, I couldn't. I couldn't
let this moment pass me by.

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I had let so many moments pass
me by by that point in my life.

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But as anyone listen to this podcast
knows, I haven't seen anything.

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I was like, I have to
see the matrix. And this is also

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I think a little bit more my
speed than yours. Like I like a

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mythology, I like a world.
I prefer a world with like dragons,

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like I like a fantasy world more
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like a world mythology, So did
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to get when you were going in? Because I feel like the marketing for

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this movie didn't adequately explain it.
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like it's complicated. That is my
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really gonna understand everything. You have
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It does tell a lot, but
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It's like if you miss one line, you might be a little bit

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lost because you missed the one line
kind of thing. I liked it.

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I enjoyed it. I had no
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so I guess that I probably was
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moved on with my life. And
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it's so good. Yeah. Not
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the transidentity of the two directors,
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and America trying to literally like eat
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rich people can live, you can
live on their high hogs. The fact

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that AI like was a thing twenty
years ago that was like the villain in

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a movie, and it's still a
thing. I'm like, shit, Oly,

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shit. The movies are warning us, y'all. They're telling us stop

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uh Erica. The tagline for The
Matrix was Free your Mind and the rest

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will follow. The fact that there
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movie is a miss. That's so
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of this film came from that end
Vogue for Your Mind music video. Correct.

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I said what I said. I
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I actually think for your Mind is
perfect. Yeah, agreed. Do you

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want to read the iTunes synopsis?
Sure? Neo Keanu Reeves believes that Morpheus

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Laurence Fishburne, an elusive figure considered
to be the most dangerous man alive,

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can answer his question what is the
mat Neo is contacted by Trinity Carrie Anne

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Moss, a beautiful stranger who leads
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They fight a brutal battle for their
lives against a cadre of viciously intelligent

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secret agents. It's a truth that
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life. I know, if that
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sense. It's also not one hundred
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the iTunes synopsis writer is problem here
is that, like, how do you

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explain this movie in a right pithy
way. Yeah, it's it's it's very

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difficult. I mean, maybe just
they fight a brutal battle for their lives

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and more against a cadre of viciously
intelligent secret agents. Yes, also there

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also computer code. Also, so
much code. You're gonna have so much

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code. I maintain it is Hackers
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that's what the Wakowskis came into the
pitch meeting with. They were like,

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can we do Hackers meets Enter the
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yes, yeah, just drumped a
dump like a dump truck full of money

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in front of their house and turned
on the money faucet and was like,

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here you go. All right,
so everyone stick around, We will be

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right back and we're going to take
you through the matrix after these messages.

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For anyone who's not a member of
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go join the Patreon and we're back. The Matrix opens with green tinted credits,

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like the WB logo is tinted green. I love it when they when

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they like the credits start rolling and
we're already in the movie, already in

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the experience. It's like a ride
great adventures. Exactly. Do you like

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roller coasters? I hate them.
I've never been good with roller coasters.

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I have I throw up easily.
Yeah, you have motions like this issues

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I don't. I just don't like
being jostled. I don't like the people

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who run them. I don't don't
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And I'm like, I'm sure some
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but every once in a while you
get one where I'm like, I

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don't. Yeah, but why are
their eyes always so shifty? That's the

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question. If they're great, wonderful
people, why you so squirrellly? Okay,

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I don't think. I don't think
my life should be in your hands.

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I just saw you eat corn dogs
and a fifth of room. You

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are fifteen years old, and you
are high. I don't really want to

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get on this ride right now with
your controlling it any crap. The Matrix

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opens on a computer screen, and
we see like indications that a phone call

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is being traced. As we overhear
the voices on the phone line discussing the

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one quote unquote, the male voice
mocks the female voice that, oh,

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you like him, you like watching
him, you like the one The voice

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is realize that the call is being
bugged, and they quickly hang up,

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and we see police officers approaching through
a dark hallway and they kick open the

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door and they shout at the back
of a leather clad woman to put her

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hands up, and we cut to
the street and reinforcements arrive in the form

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of Agents Capital A Agents. These
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and sunglasses, and they are led
by Agent Smith Hugo Weaving, who commandeers

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the scene and tells the police outside
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dead. Hugo Weaving doing so much
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the agents, specifically Agent Smith,
is that they're like unfeeling their actual robots

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right, their actual like computer codes
come to life. And he does this

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thing with his voice where he's doing
he's Australian doing an American accent, but

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he's like over pivoting that American accent, like yeah, hitting every consonant.

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It is such an underappreciated I think, and truly truly excellent performance. He

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says the word life like the word
live, but with it with an unvocalized

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consonant. It's a really weird thing
that I was fascinated by the whole time.

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If anyone is ever wondering what speech
and voice classes and theater school are

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for, it's for this. Go
watch you go weaving in the Matrix.

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That's a speech and voice class in
theater school. We cut back inside as

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the policeman enter the hotel room with
a leather clad woman, Trinity played by

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Carrie Anne Moss, and that ass. Oh fetishes were born that day,

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my friend, the way her ass
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Yep, and it's pleather. We
know it's not leather. It's definitely

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pleather that these poor actors had to
wear because it has they wanted something that

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looks shiny. Holy shit, this
body, her ass sing so much,

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it's like Pavarotti in the Moon and
Mulan rouge. Yes, that's that's that's

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her ass. That's her ass work
in these pleather pants. Her assing so

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much. It's like Whitney Houston at
the super Bowl. Okay, yes,

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yes, her ass sings so much
that the Bradley Cooper wants to conduct it.

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That's right. Yeah, that's how
that's how much her ass singing.

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Her ass sing so much that Lady
Gaga took out a hit on Carrie Anne

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Moss's ass. I don't want the
competition as all fully beautiful Top ten women

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are. Trinity is a renegade computer
hacker. Obviously, if someone ever asked

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me what the nineties were, like, I'm gonna say renegade computer hackers.

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That's what the nineties were. It's
so true. I mean, like,

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honestly, it's like Angelina Jolie wasn't
beautiful enough in hackers, so they had

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to throw and carry and Moss into
this list like impossibly beautiful women who are

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also computer geniuses. Yeah, uh
huh. Renegade computer hacker was like such

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a fucking fetish in the nineties.
Oh yeah, it was unbelievable how much

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people cared. Well, it's also
like, because we were all the Internet

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was in its nascency, so we
didn't really know what was possible with it.

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Yeah, and so if they if
some movie came along was like this

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computer hacker can use the Internet to
literally turn your hair gray, we'd be

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like, oh my god, really, yeah for real, there were like

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wizards in dungeons and dragons, like
they could just cast spells that we didn't

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understand. Yeah, they were the
girls from the Craft exactly. We're the

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weirdos, mister. So as a
totally average renegade computer hacker, Trinity easily

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outclasses all the men with their gravity
defying martial arts. Like the movie starts

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right away with this like incredible stop
motion. So again I'm not exaggerly what

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going I say. Entered the Dragon, it's very Bruce Lee es. It's

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very like old school martial arts from
the seventies, but instead of sped up

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or in real time, it's slowed
down and all the actors are on wires,

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so it looks like they can float
and fly in space. It's very

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cool. I also like it because
the in universe explanation for how they can

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do this makes the unreality of it. It makes the unreality of it makes

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sense, like the fact they look
suspended on wires, it makes sense with

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the powers that they supposedly have in
this world. Yeah. So, after

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dispatching the cops, she calls someone
on a cell phone, concerned that she

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doesn't know how the call got hacked. A new voice on the line tells

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her that they cut the hard line
and she needs an exit. The voice

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gives her an address and tells her
that the agents are there and that she

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can make it. The agents burst
into the room, and it seems that

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the tables have turned as calmly as
Trinity took out all those police. She

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wants no part of these agents,
right. She just turns around and runs.

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They pursue Trinity. She goes out
up the building over the roofs.

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They're running across the rooftops of this
unnamed city, and the agents quickly reveal

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themselves to be able to accomplish the
same kind of superhuman feats that Trinity is

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able to do. They're making leaps
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Right. Eventually, Trinity dives through
a window and she rolls to a

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stop at the bottom of a flight
of stairs, and she whips around and

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she has two pistols at the ready, right, And I love this moment

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because she's terrified and Carrie on Moss
says, get up, Trinity, just

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get up. The juxtaposition of having
her beat the shit out of all of

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those men thirty seconds ago and now
she is genuinely scared makes her human.

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She's genuinely worried about this. This
is not like she's so scared she almost

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can't make herself move to keep running. She's vulnerable. This raises the stakes,

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right, She's not this impervious being. She can be killed. Trinity

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flees to the address given and we
see a payphone there, a phone booth.

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The phone rings. At the same
time a semi truck appears, headlights

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on the phone booth. Trinity makes
a run for it. As the semi

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accelerates, she picks up the phone
and we see her turn to the camera

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and put her hand up as the
headlights bear down on her and the truck

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crashes into the phone booth. In
the aftermath, the agency there is no

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body in the booth. Trinity has
escaped. They are unconcerned as they now

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know the informant is real and they
know their next target is someone named Neo,

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so important. They have an informant
in whatever organization Trinity is in.

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That's how the phone call got hacked
yep, and the informant gave them the

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correct information to find Trinity, So
okay, this is a good lead.

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Basically, the amount of nineties ephemera
in this film, such as landlines,

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payphones, uh huh, just delight
me so much, I know, And

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how unadvanced the cell phones that they
use are. Oh the rinky, These

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rinky dink like nineteen ninety eight Nokia
phones that they're using basically look like walkie

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talkies. When did you get your
first cell phone? Now we got to

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talk about this. Oh, my
first cell phone was after I graduated college,

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so like two thousand and two.
Oh, so probably had like the

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ability to take pictures as Oh no, no, no, because I do

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things. I got like a rinky
dink. I got the cheapest one I

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could. I was was good.
I had to do the whole thing where

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you're typing. There's no keyboard to
you. You have to hit like the

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five forty time numbers. Yes,
mine did that too. I got mine

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a little earlier than you. I
got mine when I was still in college.

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The freedom to be able to like
use the phone while I was walking

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to class, and like it changed
my life. I was like this,

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who this technology where I get a
whole five hundred minutes a month to talk

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on this phone. That's incredible.
I am blown away. We cut to

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Thomas and played by Keanu. Keanu
Reeves like, I don't think there's I

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don't think he should be the next
James Bond, but I'm not against it.

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I'm not against Keanu in anything.
Keanu will be willing to give us

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of himself. Frankly, yactly,
yeah, yeah. Keanu, who also

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is a computer hacker in this film, Beautiful, Gorgeous, Keanu Reeves,

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beautiful, beautiful, Keanu reeves.
Ah, it's asleep at his computer desk.

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Messages from an unknown source flash across
his screen and refer to him by

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his hacker handle Neo. He does
the thing that I love people doing movies

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when, like on the computer screen
someone's like, hi, Neo, you

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know we're we've hacked to your computer
and he turns around and looks behind him.

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Yeah that's how man, that's how
it works. You can't see them,

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Otherwise they would just knock on your
door. The messages tell him the

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matrix has you follow the white Rabbit
and then knock knock Neo, and just

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then there's a knock at the door
outside a skeezy client awaits. Neo,

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as it turns out, sells illegal
software in this world. That's his side

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hustle. Okay, what is he
selling? Though? They never make it

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clear. The one part of this
movie that I never got clarity on,

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and I'm like, but what is
he selling? Because the people he is

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selling it to are a bunch of
like very cool, downtown looking, leather

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clad rock and roll types. They're
they're on their way to a club.

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They're gonna do e and coke all
night, They're gonna fuck in the bathrooms.

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They're definitely proposing a threesome when they
ask him if he wants to come

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with a million percent. So he's
what software could he be selling to these

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people? Maybe it's maybe it's proto
grinder. Maybe the guy is like a

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finance bro, but like, dress
is cool. I really wish the movie

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had buttoned this up just a tiny
bit because I'm like, genuinely, what

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the fuck is that? What would
that guy want with anything Neo has?

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Like it's the codes to the to
the Pentagon, Like that's that they could

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Why does that guy want them?
That's the thing. It's not like he's

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like if if he'd been like some
sleazy like you know, Russian underground like

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mafioso, I'd be like, Okay, yeah, he wants to key,

405
00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:18.000
he wants to get into pack the
Pentagon. Sure, this guy looks like

406
00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:26.079
like like the lead singer of the
band that goes before the band that goes

407
00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:32.039
before like my Chemical Romance, my
chemical romance. Yeah, like they didn't

408
00:28:32.079 --> 00:28:34.480
open for my chemical romance, but
they opened for the opener of my Chemical

409
00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:41.880
Romance. So why does that guy
need anything from a computer hacker? It's

410
00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:45.319
so funny that like this bothered you
so much because my head can because it's

411
00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:48.599
obviously intentionally set up to be like
a drug deal, Like you think he's

412
00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:52.079
going to sell them, yes,
right, and like my head canon immediately

413
00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:56.920
went to in this world, computer
programs are drugs, but how no,

414
00:28:56.920 --> 00:29:00.640
No, it doesn't make any sense, Like that is my immediate reactions,

415
00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:03.960
like, oh, like we're gonna
see them, like you know they can

416
00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:07.759
like plug it into a port in
their finger and they get high or something

417
00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:10.519
like. It doesn't that doesn't make
any sense and we don't see that.

418
00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:15.000
But that's I just defined it for
myself and moved on Meanwhile, cut to

419
00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:18.720
Gwen and Gavin later tried to smash
the computer thing, the computer chip and

420
00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:22.160
snorted in the bathroom, and they're
like, that wasn't cocaine at all.

421
00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:26.240
Erica. They have names. Their
names are Choi and Dujore. Okay,

422
00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:30.880
it's a Choi and Dujure, but
I in my in my head canon right

423
00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:34.160
now, they are Gwen Stefani and
Gavin Rosdale nineteen ninety nine. That's what

424
00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:40.200
they look like, So Choi.
But by the way, in case you're

425
00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:44.720
wondering how subtle this movie is,
Choi says things to Neo like you're my

426
00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:48.480
savior man, my own personal Jesus
Christ, and just sounds like you need

427
00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:52.160
to unplug man. Like it's not
subtle. I really can see now,

428
00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:56.599
like thinking about it, Like if
I was like a forty five year old

429
00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:03.240
male like critic his favorite movie is
like a conversation watching this, I would

430
00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:07.720
be like, no, no,
fuck you and the horse you rode in

431
00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:15.480
on. So that in retrospect,
that ninety three percent or whatever this movie

432
00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:21.839
got seems really reasonable. So Neo
delivers his goods to Joy, and he

433
00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:26.640
notices on Dujour's shoulder that there's a
white Rabbit tattoo, and he remembers those

434
00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:30.759
messages he just got which told him
to follow the White Rabbit, so he

435
00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:33.279
agrees to follow them to this goth
techno club. Have you ever seen a

436
00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:37.519
single episode of Alias? Then you
know exactly where this goth techno club looks

437
00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:41.279
like. There, You're done.
You're done. You've never seen Alias.

438
00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:44.839
Highly recommend season one and then just
stop. You can actually no two season

439
00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:48.079
two because that cliffhanger is legit at
the end of season two. Season two,

440
00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:52.279
and then stop maybe the beginning of
season three to catch up to what

441
00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:55.000
happened at the end of season two, because that that cliffhanger is for real.

442
00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:57.599
Now for real stop now, no, really, stop, really stop

443
00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:02.039
In the club, Trinny, he
approaches Neo and tells him she sent the

444
00:31:02.039 --> 00:31:06.160
messages. She's the one that hacked
into his computer. He recognizes her hacker

445
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:10.000
handle as you know Trinity, because
again, like in the film Hackers,

446
00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:11.680
they all know each other. They're
all famous to each other. It's like

447
00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:15.319
seven of them. They don't know
what they all look like yet they're all

448
00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:18.720
somehow fucking underwear models. Yeah,
but she says she was a hacker a

449
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:23.319
long time ago. She tells him
he's in danger. She knows who he's

450
00:31:23.359 --> 00:31:27.640
looking for, and she knows the
question he wants to ask, what is

451
00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:32.799
the matrix? She tells him the
answer is out there and is looking for

452
00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:36.039
him. An alarm clock rings and
Neo wakes up in his own bed,

453
00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:38.480
late for work. We cut to
Neo at work getting chewed out by his

454
00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:44.599
boss. He heads back to his
little cubicle desk and he receives a hand

455
00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:48.440
delivered package from FedEx. Now,
I know we're in a futuristic world,

456
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:53.240
but a does anyone get FedEx packages
delivered? Can you can you like put

457
00:31:53.559 --> 00:32:00.440
you know, forty third floor of
this building cubicle seventeen? Like, did

458
00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:04.480
FedEx do that? I don't think
they did that. I think before everyone

459
00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:07.680
and their mother started buying shit online, FedEx had very little to do.

460
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.920
They had like seven packages in a
data deliver They were like, Hey,

461
00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:14.279
do you want us to do anything
around the house while we're here? Yeah?

462
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:16.400
Used to be a cushy gig.
Now it's run, run, Run.

463
00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:21.119
Also, I'm sorry this FedEx guy
is flirting with Keanu. It's my

464
00:32:21.160 --> 00:32:24.880
head canon. I'm sticking with it. Fair enough, So he takes this

465
00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:29.599
package. Inside is a cell phone. The cell phone rings, Neo picks

466
00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:34.720
it up, and a deep voiced
man identifies himself as Morpheus. This is

467
00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:37.039
the man that Neo was looking for. This is the man he wanted to

468
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:39.799
ask what is the matrix? But
before he can say anything, Morpheus says

469
00:32:40.039 --> 00:32:45.920
they're coming. Neo looks up and
he sees the agents arriving in his office,

470
00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:50.200
being pointed towards his cubicle by some
of his co workers. Morpheus tells

471
00:32:50.279 --> 00:32:53.440
him that he can escape, but
only if he follows Morpheus's instructions exactly.

472
00:32:54.200 --> 00:32:59.039
Neo scrambles to obey, but ultimately
is unable to bring himself to walk out

473
00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:01.559
on the window ledge of skyscraper to
get to a scaffolding, which is where

474
00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:05.559
Morpheus tells me he has to go. He cannot. He cannot conquer his

475
00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:09.799
own fear of being eighty stories up
and inches from falling to his death.

476
00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:13.119
You know what, Neo, man? The fuck up? Come on?

477
00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:15.599
Come on? What are you doing? What is your problem? Every time

478
00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:20.240
a stranger on the phone tells me
to put myself in extreme mortal danger,

479
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:22.359
I do it. They only have
good intentions. Ever, yeah, yeah,

480
00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:30.359
it only ever ends up well,
so Neo is captured by the agents.

481
00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:37.839
So Agent Smith leads the interrogation of
Neo, calling him mister Anderson and

482
00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:42.680
telling him in a creepy, semi
monotone voice that, despite having evidence of

483
00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:46.319
all of Neo's illegal hacker activities,
whatever the fuck he was selling to Gwyn

484
00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:52.240
and Gavin, Yeah, he just
wants Neo's help in finding Morpheus. Neo

485
00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:54.519
flips him off. He literally gives
him the bird, which is very funny,

486
00:33:54.920 --> 00:33:59.880
and demands his phone call. He's
like, he listens to this podcast,

487
00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:04.000
he said, lawyer. He knows
he's heard our PSAs many many times

488
00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:06.799
on this subject. And when a
cop talks to you, you say,

489
00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:10.480
lawyer, he don't necessarily flip them
off. First, I wouldn't recommend that

490
00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:15.159
that's a bold move. That's a
that is a that's a that's a varsity

491
00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:17.199
move. Not everyone's here for that, That's right. It depends on the

492
00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:21.320
cop. It depends on the on
the person being questioned. But yeah,

493
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:22.719
he was like, uh, fuck
you, I want my phone call.

494
00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:28.400
I'm calling I'm calling my lawyer.
Agent Smith wonders what good a phone call

495
00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:32.760
would be if Neo is unable to
speak wow, and then Suddenly flesh grows

496
00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:37.440
over Neo's mouth, rendering him mute. This is funny because this is the

497
00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:40.039
only like special effect in the movie
that does not work for me at all.

498
00:34:40.519 --> 00:34:45.280
It looks so janky, and I
was like, wow, they mastered

499
00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:51.519
the art of like stop motion technology
and wire choreography whatever cgi it took to

500
00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:54.119
make like bullets seem like they were
stopping in mid air and then and then

501
00:34:54.199 --> 00:35:00.159
Keanu can touch one and it drops. But they couldn't quite get like the

502
00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:04.920
mouth being covered over by flesh interesting. They just couldn't figure that out.

503
00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:07.760
They should have given him like a
zipper over his mouth, like they didn't

504
00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:13.000
beatlejuice yeah or shut yeah. The
other agents burst into the room and they

505
00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:17.679
hold Neo down. They rip open
his shirt. Hot fair again computer hacker.

506
00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:22.679
I look, I don't want to
be a broken record here, but

507
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:27.920
like the nineties were like, oh, was Johnny Lee Miller not believable enough

508
00:35:27.960 --> 00:35:30.519
as a computer hacker to you?
How about we throw in Keanu Reeves?

509
00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:36.199
Is that better? Is that more
like it? They release a metallic scorpion

510
00:35:36.360 --> 00:35:40.320
like device that crawls over Neo's body
and burrows into his stomach through his belly

511
00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:45.239
button as Neo tries to scream but
still can't because he's got my guess is

512
00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:49.599
I don't know, like a bit
of plaster on his face that's supposed to

513
00:35:49.639 --> 00:35:53.519
be supposed to be little. Yeah, Neo jokes awake at home and chalks

514
00:35:53.519 --> 00:35:59.400
the whole experience up to a bad
dream. That's some dream. That's all

515
00:35:59.519 --> 00:36:04.239
quite a heavy dream. Yeah.
His phone rings and it's Morpheus again,

516
00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:09.000
and Morpheus tells him that he believes
that Neo is the one and proposes meeting

517
00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:15.320
under a nearby bridge. Neo agrees. Just a stunning shot of the bridge

518
00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:16.679
with the rain pouring over it on. Neo waits, I mean, just

519
00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:22.760
like this world is all like chrome
and like neon green and pinks, and

520
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:27.239
like it's there are many shots this
movie that are just gorgeous to look at.

521
00:36:27.559 --> 00:36:30.559
Yeah, we discussed this a little
bit when we talked about Bound,

522
00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:36.440
Like every shot is art in their
films. They're really like they understand how

523
00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:39.920
to make visual art in a way
that like few filmmakers do. Yeah.

524
00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:45.920
Trinity arrives in a black car along
with allies, Switch played by Belinda McClory,

525
00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:50.920
an Apoc played by Julian Arahanga.
Interesting little factoid I found out while

526
00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:58.519
researching this Switch who the woman here
in the original script was a woman in

527
00:36:58.599 --> 00:37:02.199
the matrix but a man in the
world. Oh okay, they don't do

528
00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:05.159
that in them film, do they? They don't do it in the film.

529
00:37:05.199 --> 00:37:07.199
No, it was just that was
the original concept. They threw it

530
00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:08.840
out. I think my guess is
they thought it would be confusing for people

531
00:37:09.320 --> 00:37:13.559
and they just didn't do it.
But like, just starting to talk about

532
00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:15.400
all of these trans things that start
to like pop up in this movie,

533
00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:21.679
Yeah, that's super interesting. So
Neo gets in and Switch immediately pulls a

534
00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:24.280
gun on him and tells him it's
our way or the highway, which like

535
00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:28.719
doesn't quite work like the my way. The highway rhymes our way or the

536
00:37:28.760 --> 00:37:31.840
highway just sounds. It doesn't rhyme. It doesn't really it's not very threatening.

537
00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:36.559
Could he used to ReadWrite on that
one? Haha. Anyway, she

538
00:37:36.599 --> 00:37:39.800
tells him to open his shirt hot
and he refuses, but before he can

539
00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:44.079
leave, Trinity grabs his arm and
she tells him that he knows what life

540
00:37:44.119 --> 00:37:46.000
is like. It's out there,
and she knows it's not where he wants

541
00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:51.239
to be, and Neo stays.
He opens his shirt and Trinity uses a

542
00:37:51.239 --> 00:37:55.280
device to yank the wriggling mechanical scorpion
thingy back out of his belly button.

543
00:37:55.360 --> 00:37:59.239
That's a penis pump, right,
That is a penis pump. They're using

544
00:37:59.239 --> 00:38:01.880
a penis pump. That is a
penis pump. The pop I got a

545
00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:06.360
penis pump and Jerry ringed it to
make it not looks like a penis pump.

546
00:38:06.599 --> 00:38:09.960
But that is one hundred a penis
pump. And I I don't mean

547
00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:14.280
to be gross, but if something
that large has to leave my body,

548
00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:17.400
I'm gonna say, let's go to
the back door. I'd rather not come

549
00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:22.920
through my belly button, which is
not a natural hole. No no,

550
00:38:22.599 --> 00:38:27.599
I'm actually like clutching my belly button
just thinking about that, Like ah no,

551
00:38:27.599 --> 00:38:30.320
no, no, leave her alone. She closed up years ago.

552
00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:35.840
Let to stay. Something about it
big that the belly button grossed me out

553
00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:38.199
so much. There is a lot
of body horror in this movie that frankly

554
00:38:38.239 --> 00:38:40.679
too much for me. But I'm
a you know me, I'm a sensitive

555
00:38:40.719 --> 00:38:45.039
boy. So uh. Neo was
shocked that his dream from the prior night

556
00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:50.480
was real. The thing's real.
Oh my god, where'd you get where'd

557
00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:52.360
you get a penis? Pump that
big? Is that for like a horse?

558
00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:55.960
Did you ever have to pump horse
penises? Holy shit? A pocket?

559
00:38:55.960 --> 00:39:00.400
Is your dick this big? If
I dick's not big an for this?

560
00:39:00.599 --> 00:39:02.800
If I'm in the maintrix, can
I make my dick bigger? I

561
00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:07.840
mean actually yes, yes, yes, you know you can answer is yes?

562
00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:10.440
What if he was not on board
at all with helping them in any

563
00:39:10.440 --> 00:39:14.199
way with any of their mission until
they told him he could make his dick

564
00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:17.079
like, not even significantly bigger,
like a quarter of an inch bigger,

565
00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:21.599
And he'd be like, okay,
o woman, no, what if Porphous

566
00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:25.519
is like neo, your penis can
be six and a half inches long while

567
00:39:25.519 --> 00:39:30.239
erect? And he was like,
yes, I'm in I'm in six and

568
00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:35.039
a half Is that even possible?
I can triple it? Wait, damn

569
00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:42.119
it out loud. Trinity and the
others take him to an abandoned building because

570
00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:45.760
again we are basically in an episode
of Alias Yeah, where he finally gets

571
00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:52.800
to meet the Great Morpheus played by
the Great Laurence Fishburne. Paul writes here

572
00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:57.039
a man that is somehow making a
sneak skin black duster work. Correct,

573
00:39:57.280 --> 00:40:00.679
Yeah, you really have to be
Laurence Fishburne. There's no one else.

574
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.400
There's so few actors that can pull
any of this shit off. Yeah,

575
00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:08.400
Laurence Fishburne said, you require gravitas, and thus here I am. You

576
00:40:08.440 --> 00:40:13.599
require someone who can make any outfits
saying I'm here. You're welcome, You're

577
00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:16.599
welcome. Morpheus asks Neo if he
believes in fate, and Neo says no.

578
00:40:16.760 --> 00:40:20.360
He doesn't like the idea that he's
not in control of his own life.

579
00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:24.559
Morphius tells Neo that the Matrix is
everywhere. It is the world that

580
00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:29.079
has been pulled over Neo's eyes,
and he's always been a slave to it.

581
00:40:29.639 --> 00:40:32.360
Morpheus offers to reveal it to him. Are we all caught up here

582
00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:36.880
on what's happening? Okay, just
checking with the audience here, I mean,

583
00:40:36.920 --> 00:40:38.000
we've all seen this movie right by
this point. But like, the

584
00:40:38.039 --> 00:40:42.760
Matrix is everywhere, It is the
world that Paul and I are podcasting.

585
00:40:42.800 --> 00:40:46.199
And what if the Matrix bothered to
do this? Truly? What if like

586
00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:52.880
AI took over, created the Matrix
turned humans into their like body bag slaves

587
00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:57.360
and they were like but still,
we should have four hundred thousand podcasts the

588
00:40:57.639 --> 00:41:06.400
same time, the same time.
Somehow that's important. Yep, that's the

589
00:41:06.440 --> 00:41:10.239
most important thing. Morpheus holds out
two pills, very famous scene. If

590
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:14.559
Neo takes the blue one, he'll
wake up at home and remember nothing of

591
00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:17.559
this whole adventure, no harm,
no foul. If he takes the red

592
00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:22.239
one, he gets to know everything. Right, there's that speech going down

593
00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:24.079
the rabbit hole Alice. Right,
Yeah, Neo takes the blue one.

594
00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:27.599
End of movie. Weird, right, that's a twist. That was my

595
00:41:27.719 --> 00:41:30.320
favorite, one of my favorite jokes
in the Barbie movie when the same choice

596
00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:37.119
is offered her and she's like,
blue pill. How long do you think

597
00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:39.280
it took for them to set up
that famous shot? So it's it's Laurence

598
00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:45.320
Fishburne's sunglasses and his hands are have
the pill in each and each in each

599
00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:47.599
lens and Keanu where you can see
Kanu reason it that was it. That

600
00:41:47.679 --> 00:41:51.920
was two hours of the cinematographer's life
that he's not getting back, right,

601
00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:54.599
probably, I mean it's a little
computers generated too. I'm sure like the

602
00:41:54.679 --> 00:42:00.480
ke is added on afterwards. Honestly, I'm just shocked he could wear the

603
00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:04.760
whole movie Laurence Fishburne wears these sunglasses
that have no arms to it's just the

604
00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:08.480
lenses like stuck on his nose and
I'm like, but how the spirit gum?

605
00:42:08.519 --> 00:42:10.320
Do you have spirit gum on your
nose? Sir? How are those

606
00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:14.800
staying? Poor Laurence fishburn had to
have spirit gum on his nose for like

607
00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:16.360
the six months it took to shoot
this movie. I think that's a safe

608
00:42:16.360 --> 00:42:20.960
bet. So obviously, Neo picks
the red one. Morpheus and his crew

609
00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:24.000
hook Neo up to a machine and
a mirror next to him just liquefies,

610
00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:29.159
and he's like, whoa very Keanu
moment. No one nails a woe like

611
00:42:29.239 --> 00:42:34.760
Keanu, not even Joey Lawrence,
no nobody, frankly. So the mirror

612
00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:39.159
liquefies that becomes a thick silver metallic
substance that then incases Neo. There's a

613
00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:44.239
long sequence with a lot of body
horror and birth imagery, and when you

614
00:42:44.239 --> 00:42:46.679
think about it, birthing a baby
is the original body horror. Isn't it

615
00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:53.239
like that? Oh? Correct,
I've never done it, but correct.

616
00:42:53.719 --> 00:42:59.519
Ultimately we see Neo waking up naked
and hairless in this that of Jelly with

617
00:42:59.639 --> 00:43:02.400
all kinds of plugs in his body, threw his arms down his spine that

618
00:43:02.440 --> 00:43:07.960
connect the vat, and he's surrounded
by other similar pods. Right, how

619
00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:09.920
much ky jelly do you think they
used for this? Like? All of

620
00:43:09.960 --> 00:43:14.239
it? All of it, like
could no one could buy lube for like

621
00:43:14.280 --> 00:43:17.119
a year, fourteen to fifteen drums
of astroglide went into this, by the

622
00:43:17.119 --> 00:43:22.400
way, you say, other similar
pods, hundreds maybe thousands of similar pods.

623
00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:24.800
You have to explain a little bit
of stuff to me. Actually,

624
00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:29.719
okay, where is this? This
is the real world? So this is

625
00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:34.920
right? But physically where like is
this on Earth? These pods that we

626
00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:37.880
see Neo lined up in? Like
this is this is what Earth is now?

627
00:43:37.239 --> 00:43:42.320
It's just these pods, right,
So like this is modern day Oklahoma

628
00:43:42.320 --> 00:43:45.519
City and Neo is just one of
many hundreds of thousands of lads and this

629
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:51.079
and this is a human farm.
So Neo's vat suddenly drains of all the

630
00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:53.599
ky jelly and he falls down into
a pit of water, but he obviously

631
00:43:53.639 --> 00:43:57.960
doesn't know how to swim. And
just jumping into the movie a little bit,

632
00:43:57.960 --> 00:44:00.360
this is where his body has been
its his entire existence. This is

633
00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:05.559
his real world body. Its muscles
of obviously atrophied. He's never learned how

634
00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:07.679
to swim, and he has no
musk, he has no musculature to do

635
00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:12.800
it, so he starts to drown. Before he can drown, a door

636
00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:16.519
opens up in the ceiling because he's
like basically been flushed down essentially into the

637
00:44:16.559 --> 00:44:22.800
sewer system of this world. The
machines have thought he died, and now

638
00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:25.400
he's being flushed down into the system. This claw comes fall, comes down

639
00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:29.480
and picks him up and lifts him
up out before he can drown. And

640
00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:32.599
as he's falling unconscious, Morphia says, welcome to the real world. So,

641
00:44:32.760 --> 00:44:37.320
going back to giving birth being the
original body, did you ever watch

642
00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:42.960
a birth that a birthing video in
like health class? Absolutely not. You

643
00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:45.000
didn't have to. We were like
required to. And it was boys and

644
00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:47.480
girls. It wasn't just the girls. I think it's because we were I

645
00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:51.880
grew up in Miami, and they
knew there was a high possibility of team

646
00:44:51.920 --> 00:44:57.920
pregnancy, just given just given everyone's
uh watching some that's a scared gay video,

647
00:44:57.960 --> 00:45:00.679
that's what that is, as opposed
to a scared straight one. Yeah,

648
00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:04.199
And so like they showed us a
woman giving birth and like, I

649
00:45:04.280 --> 00:45:12.199
will genuinely never forget the feeling of
that moment of seventh grade health class,

650
00:45:12.719 --> 00:45:15.199
and like they didn't have any sound
on it. There was no sound to

651
00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:17.000
the video, so you couldn't hear
screaming or crying or anything. But you

652
00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:22.519
just watched this baby come out.
And at first you're horrified. And first

653
00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:27.199
you're hugely embarrassed because you're thirteen in
a classroom filled with all your friends.

654
00:45:27.280 --> 00:45:31.719
Yeah, and you're watching a lady's
vagina up close, like you're like ross.

655
00:45:32.199 --> 00:45:36.000
And then and then the baby comes
out, and you're all like,

656
00:45:36.159 --> 00:45:39.159
oh wow, the miracle of wow, that's okay, that's not so that's

657
00:45:39.199 --> 00:45:47.239
awful, but it's not so awful. And then the placenta comes and the

658
00:45:47.519 --> 00:45:58.119
scream that erupted from that classroom because
no one had ever told any of us

659
00:45:59.039 --> 00:46:06.639
that that was going to happen.
It feels like something you should be warned

660
00:46:06.639 --> 00:46:14.119
about one hundred percent and something why
doesn't anyone tell children, by the way,

661
00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:16.320
after the baby is born, and
that all that whole part is gonna

662
00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:22.039
be awkward and embarrassing and gross and
terrifying, but also kind of miraculous and

663
00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:30.639
beautiful. This woman's vagina is going
to do a wet sneeze and this unholy

664
00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:44.840
glow, just mucus and blood is
gonna fly out of her. It is

665
00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:50.119
a memory I will never forget.
Everyone was so traumatized. I wish I

666
00:46:50.159 --> 00:46:52.000
could go back and double check this, but I'm pretty sure no one got

667
00:46:52.039 --> 00:46:58.639
pregnant in that class. Now whatever, all those kids probably all virgins passed

668
00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:00.639
well to this day. To this
day, I'm like, oh, I'm

669
00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:04.679
sorry, I did you see the
placentive? Is you? I'm not I'm

670
00:47:04.719 --> 00:47:12.239
not participating in anything that's gonna clause
that what sneeze. I'm just saying.

671
00:47:12.480 --> 00:47:15.760
I'm just saying. After that,
the ky jelly situation with the Kanu doesn't

672
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:20.559
seem so gross. This seems so
well. Now I understand why horror movies

673
00:47:20.559 --> 00:47:28.360
don't bother you, because you you
were when I was like thirteen, mandatorily

674
00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:36.400
AnyWho, any crap. Neil falls
in and out of awareness as we see

675
00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:51.800
him being I'm just picturing the thirteen
year olds like me, like we made

676
00:47:51.800 --> 00:47:57.400
it through, guys. This comes
out and just pandemonium. The boy,

677
00:47:57.760 --> 00:48:01.440
the boy, the boy sitting next
to me literally jumped out of his seat

678
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:06.920
like and turned around was like,
no, no, no, no,

679
00:48:09.280 --> 00:48:15.920
God. Who Okay? All right, I can't believe I've never told that

680
00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:21.519
story before on this podcast. Absolutely
not great story. I'm so glad this

681
00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:28.800
episode got that up. That story, the celebration of womanhood. All right,

682
00:48:28.880 --> 00:48:31.519
I'm back now, I'm ready.
Neo falls in and out of awareness

683
00:48:31.599 --> 00:48:36.280
as we see him being rehabilitated by
Morpheus, Trinity, and their crew.

684
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:39.559
Since Neo's actual body has been his
entire existence in a vat of jelly,

685
00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:45.599
his muscles of totally atrophied, so
there's like an acupuncture section that they put

686
00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:46.960
him in. They put him in
like a pod. He'll raise eat your

687
00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:53.000
heart out. Eventually, they explained
to Neo, like your muscles of atropheed

688
00:48:53.039 --> 00:48:57.719
were rebuilding them for you so you
can walk and move and do all the

689
00:48:57.760 --> 00:49:00.639
things we do. Right, Eventually, Neo is ready. But now he

690
00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:04.840
has a permanent port in his neck
at the base of his skull. We're

691
00:49:04.840 --> 00:49:07.760
gonna find out later that's the part
of the whole issue that he was in

692
00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:14.800
with the human farm before he was
connected. Basically, so Morpheus explains to

693
00:49:14.840 --> 00:49:17.559
Neo what has happened. He is
now in the real world, he is

694
00:49:17.599 --> 00:49:22.960
on Morpheus's ship, the Nebekadnezzar,
and the year is not nineteen ninety nine,

695
00:49:22.079 --> 00:49:27.599
it's closer to twenty one ninety nine. And then Morpheus introduces Neo to

696
00:49:27.639 --> 00:49:30.480
the crew that he hasn't met yet, so we all meet Cipher played by

697
00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:37.920
Joey Pants Joe Pantoliano fucking nailing it
like he always does. Yep, bless

698
00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:42.119
Joe Pantoliano. He is another freed
human, so he was also once in

699
00:49:42.119 --> 00:49:45.039
the human farms, but he has
been freed by Morpheus. He's dripping with

700
00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:51.239
sarcasm. He's mustachioed like a malicious
lion tamer. He seems to enjoy needling

701
00:49:51.280 --> 00:49:53.559
Trinity and she seems to dislike him. Yeah, she's not a big fan.

702
00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:59.559
Cipher Mouse played by Matt Duran,
who's another freed human and he's the

703
00:49:59.599 --> 00:50:01.519
ship's ways. He's like the young
one. He looks to be like twenty

704
00:50:01.599 --> 00:50:07.960
maybe yeah. And then the brothers
Dozer played by Anthony Ray Parker and Tank

705
00:50:08.119 --> 00:50:16.039
played by Marcus Chong. Oh yeah, every time Tank came on screen,

706
00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:22.880
I flooded my basement. This person
is beautiful. This guy is so hot

707
00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:27.119
that you forget about KEYONU reeves instantly, instantly like no, never mind,

708
00:50:27.159 --> 00:50:34.480
I want to fight Tank whatever,
Ken shut up. Oh. So Tank

709
00:50:34.519 --> 00:50:38.079
and Dozer are brothers. They were
born in the last surviving human settlement of

710
00:50:38.199 --> 00:50:44.480
Zion, which lies deep underground near
the warmth of the Earth's core. So

711
00:50:44.559 --> 00:50:46.559
they have never been part of the
Matrix, and they lack the ports at

712
00:50:46.599 --> 00:50:50.719
the back of their head right,
so they cannot enter the matrix. And

713
00:50:50.760 --> 00:50:52.960
as a result, that means Tank
is usually the person who's guiding the other

714
00:50:53.039 --> 00:50:57.880
people who are in the matrix,
the team communications expert. Basically they call

715
00:50:57.960 --> 00:51:00.400
him the operator. Yeah, so
then can we get an info dump?

716
00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:02.920
All right? So this is and
this is gonna be a little bit dry,

717
00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:05.920
but I will say the movie does
a pretty good job of kind of

718
00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:10.000
dramatizing it as Morpheus is explaining what's
going on. So via their headports,

719
00:51:10.039 --> 00:51:14.760
all the freed humans that were born
in the Matrix can re enter the Matrix

720
00:51:14.800 --> 00:51:17.320
and also enter other computer programs,
usually run by Tank. That's why he

721
00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:22.000
is the lead operator. What is
the matrix Erica. It's simply a neural

722
00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:24.320
interactive simulation of the world as it
was in nineteen ninety nine. That's all

723
00:51:24.360 --> 00:51:29.119
it is okay, any questions great? You know, I wouldn't mind going

724
00:51:29.159 --> 00:51:31.519
back to nineteen ninety nine. Yeah, some things were better, not everything,

725
00:51:31.960 --> 00:51:35.119
but some part of me was like, who a world where I get

726
00:51:35.159 --> 00:51:37.719
to perpetually live in nineteen ninety nine? Sign me up. Not so bad,

727
00:51:38.159 --> 00:51:40.239
I was. We were in our
sophomore year of college. It was

728
00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:45.079
pretty good. Yeah, times were
good. The Matrix exists because humans developed

729
00:51:45.119 --> 00:51:50.440
AI years ago but lost control and
a war between man and machines started.

730
00:51:50.880 --> 00:51:54.320
The machines were winning, and so
humans chose to cause a nuclear winter to

731
00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:59.679
block out the sun, hoping to
depower the robots, which relied on solar

732
00:51:59.679 --> 00:52:05.079
power function. Unfortunately, the robots
adapted, as AI is wont to do

733
00:52:05.119 --> 00:52:08.039
in these stories, and they created
the human farms that we saw Neo wake

734
00:52:08.119 --> 00:52:14.000
up from, where they breed humans
as living batteries to power themselves with bioelectricity.

735
00:52:14.360 --> 00:52:16.880
The Matrix is the dream world that
the robots put the brains of their

736
00:52:16.920 --> 00:52:22.440
human batteries in to keep them under
control. So essentially, Neo was born

737
00:52:22.440 --> 00:52:24.880
in this human farm, his brain
was placed in the Matrix, and his

738
00:52:24.920 --> 00:52:29.199
whole life, his actual body,
has been existing to power the machines while

739
00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:32.480
his brain lived out this fictitious life
in like nineteen ninety nine. Yep,

740
00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:36.960
one man. And by the way, you may think we're gonna get explanation

741
00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:38.039
on this one man, we are
not, So just go with this.

742
00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:43.360
One man was born into the matrix
with the power to change things, and

743
00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:47.639
it was he who freed the first
human minds. And Oracle prophesied this man's

744
00:52:47.679 --> 00:52:53.440
return, and Morpheus believes that Neo
is his reincarnation. Neo is the one.

745
00:52:53.840 --> 00:53:00.000
So we get a lot of like
this Messiah uh storyline in this one

746
00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:02.679
and in the past times really dinged
movies on this Messiah storyline. I'm like,

747
00:53:02.719 --> 00:53:06.920
I hate the idea that, like
it's one person who can save us

748
00:53:06.920 --> 00:53:13.039
all it's always a dude, you
know, except refreshingly in Jupiter Ascending,

749
00:53:13.079 --> 00:53:15.719
it is my it's Mila Kunis.
Oh, okay, it is a woman.

750
00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:21.360
I find that really like conservative thinking. This film does does a good

751
00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:24.079
job of like taking the teeth out
of it a little bit, so I

752
00:53:24.119 --> 00:53:28.639
don't find it as irritating as I
usually do. Okay, fair enough,

753
00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:30.480
it didn't that that kind of stuff
doesn't really usually great on me as much

754
00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:34.239
as it does to you. I
read a lot of fantasy novels, and

755
00:53:34.800 --> 00:53:37.880
so much of it. There is
so much of it the one I mean

756
00:53:37.119 --> 00:53:43.000
most everything we talk about that's like
sci fi or fantasy fiction tends to have

757
00:53:43.039 --> 00:53:46.960
that narrative, right. Like Star
Wars Harry Potter. We get a training

758
00:53:47.280 --> 00:53:53.039
montage. Neo enters a computer program
and Tank downloads skill into his brain,

759
00:53:53.760 --> 00:54:00.800
every martial art imaginable. We get
the incredible I know kung fu O line

760
00:54:00.199 --> 00:54:04.320
that Keanu immortalized in this film.
That is a great line. But my

761
00:54:04.400 --> 00:54:09.800
personal favorite line is jiu jitsu.
I'm going to learn jujitsu. Ha.

762
00:54:13.079 --> 00:54:15.760
Do you also notice that one of
the programs was drunk in boxing. No,

763
00:54:19.440 --> 00:54:22.000
that's very important. If you ever
planned to travel to New Orleans,

764
00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:25.559
they're gonna need that one. Yeah. He spars with Morpheus, who explains

765
00:54:25.599 --> 00:54:30.599
that in the matrix, or in
any virtual computer world, Neo can break

766
00:54:30.639 --> 00:54:35.079
the accepted rules. We see ultra
fast fighting, punches through the floor,

767
00:54:35.159 --> 00:54:39.039
gravity defying leaps. Morpheus tells him
that he's trying to free Neo's mind,

768
00:54:39.119 --> 00:54:43.880
but he can only show Neo the
door. Neo has to walk through it

769
00:54:44.719 --> 00:54:47.280
again. Laurence Fishern goes a long
way for me, because normally this kind

770
00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:52.000
of thing drives me insane, where
I'm like, yeah, shut up and

771
00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:54.840
get to the rest of the plot. Stop, like stop wasting my time.

772
00:54:55.039 --> 00:55:00.920
Yeah. Laurence Fishburn's performance in this
does the Lord's work in lifting this

773
00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:07.239
like haiku nonsense nonsense lines that he's
being given. Eventually, Morpheus tests Neo

774
00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:10.280
by telling him he can jump from
one skyscraper to another. The crew,

775
00:55:10.559 --> 00:55:15.320
like on the Nebukanezer watched pensively.
No one has ever had enough faith to

776
00:55:15.400 --> 00:55:17.599
make the first jump, but if
Neo is truly the one, maybe he

777
00:55:17.679 --> 00:55:22.400
will. He'll actually make it yep
alas he does not. You see him.

778
00:55:22.639 --> 00:55:27.039
Keanu winds up for the run.
He's running, he's running, and

779
00:55:27.079 --> 00:55:30.239
you see the moment that he loses
faith and he can make it and he's

780
00:55:30.280 --> 00:55:32.360
like Nope, not gonna make it. Boom and he falls off of this

781
00:55:32.360 --> 00:55:37.000
skyscraper. Neo wakes up with a
bloody mouth, and Morpheus explains that while

782
00:55:37.039 --> 00:55:42.119
the matrix is not real, his
mind in the matrix is, which again

783
00:55:42.159 --> 00:55:45.800
you would get way more than a
bloody mouth from that fall. Well,

784
00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:49.880
because that's a specific program they set
up. So when he hits the page

785
00:55:50.000 --> 00:55:52.199
ground, right, He like,
it's like an elastic thing. Yeah.

786
00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:57.599
Yeah, But if you die in
the Matrix, you die in the real

787
00:55:57.639 --> 00:56:01.199
world because your brain doesn't know the
difference. Morpheus goes on to explain that

788
00:56:01.280 --> 00:56:07.800
the agents are sentient programs and can
transform themselves into anyone inside the matrix.

789
00:56:07.320 --> 00:56:12.360
Right, So the Matrix's computer code
is just people's brains in there, and

790
00:56:12.400 --> 00:56:16.119
the agents are computer code within that
that can enter other people's bodies. Basically,

791
00:56:16.480 --> 00:56:21.159
no freed human has ever defeated an
agent in the Matrix. But at

792
00:56:21.159 --> 00:56:25.079
some point Neo will have to fight
them, and Morpheus believes he can defeat

793
00:56:25.119 --> 00:56:30.960
them, and Neo wonders if Morpheus
believes he can dodge bullets, and Morpheus

794
00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:34.760
smiles and says, no, when
you're ready, you won't have to.

795
00:56:35.320 --> 00:56:37.920
I am glad this check. This
particular check is cashed later in the film

796
00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:42.559
That made Me Very happy. The
nebekon Nezer. This ship then has a

797
00:56:42.599 --> 00:56:46.679
brief encounter with quote unquote Squidties,
which are basically enormous robots sentinels that can

798
00:56:46.719 --> 00:56:52.400
detect bioelectricity. The only weapon against
them is an electromagnetic pulse, which can

799
00:56:52.519 --> 00:56:54.320
knock the squidties out, but it
can only be used once and it requires

800
00:56:54.360 --> 00:56:58.599
time to recharge, and the crew
manages to hide from the robots. Just

801
00:56:58.679 --> 00:57:01.119
remember those for later because they come
back later as a plot point. That's

802
00:57:01.159 --> 00:57:05.119
why all of that stuff an p
squidties. You need to know that later.

803
00:57:05.679 --> 00:57:07.920
Okay, second question, then,
so where are they? Where is

804
00:57:07.960 --> 00:57:13.000
their ship? They're in the real
world. They're flying around the Earth and

805
00:57:13.039 --> 00:57:16.480
they're hiding. They're cloaking themselves from
the robots. So they're flying a is

806
00:57:16.480 --> 00:57:20.719
it a spaceship? Are they just
above the Earth's atmosphere? Yeah, pretty

807
00:57:20.800 --> 00:57:23.760
much, and they're they're they're like
adventurers from the City of Zion, basically,

808
00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:28.320
got it, and they're trying to
free more humans. All right,

809
00:57:28.400 --> 00:57:30.679
I'm in, I'm in, I'm
all in here. Neo meets with Cipher.

810
00:57:31.280 --> 00:57:35.960
Cipher offers Neo a drink and says
he knows what Neo is thinking.

811
00:57:36.320 --> 00:57:39.519
Why oh why didn't I take the
blue pill? Am I right? Cipher

812
00:57:39.519 --> 00:57:43.719
advises him if he ever sees an
agent, to run. Okay, So,

813
00:57:43.800 --> 00:57:46.400
no matter what Morpheus believes about your
abilities, even if you are the

814
00:57:46.400 --> 00:57:52.239
one, no one has ever survived
an agent ever. Just run, Yeah,

815
00:57:52.360 --> 00:57:57.639
Neo leaves and Cipher then enters the
Matrix. We see Cipher at a

816
00:57:57.679 --> 00:58:01.599
steak dinner with Agent Smith. This
steak look good, but is it also

817
00:58:01.719 --> 00:58:05.840
the largest steak you've ever seen in
your life? It is a It is

818
00:58:05.880 --> 00:58:08.480
a prime rib because if you're starving, if you've been living on a if

819
00:58:08.519 --> 00:58:13.239
you've been living on scraps of food
in space, and you gets cold,

820
00:58:13.280 --> 00:58:16.039
half cooked oatmeal, you get to
go down into the Matrix and you get

821
00:58:16.079 --> 00:58:22.039
a fucking Argentinian steak, like a
real fucking stake that. I don't know

822
00:58:22.320 --> 00:58:24.719
why that steak looks so good like, but I was watching the movie.

823
00:58:24.760 --> 00:58:28.280
I was like, oh, I
want steak. You want to know why?

824
00:58:28.280 --> 00:58:30.519
It is because Joey Pants. Joey
Pants sells a moment, sells the

825
00:58:30.519 --> 00:58:35.239
shit out of eating that steak.
That is absolutely true, So Smith.

826
00:58:35.400 --> 00:58:42.679
Agent Smith calls Cipher mister Reagan,
mister Reagan, Mister Reagan, and Cipher

827
00:58:42.760 --> 00:58:45.559
bargains with him for a return to
the Matrix. He says he's realized,

828
00:58:45.599 --> 00:58:53.079
after nine long years living this outlaw
renegade lifestyle, that ignorance truly was bliss

829
00:58:53.119 --> 00:58:55.599
and he didn't know how good he
had it when he was in the matrix.

830
00:58:57.280 --> 00:59:00.559
He is also a white man.
That's worth it in mind. He

831
00:59:00.639 --> 00:59:02.639
tells them though, that he has
he has some conditions before he gives up

832
00:59:02.639 --> 00:59:07.480
with all this information. A.
He wants his memory cleared of all the

833
00:59:07.519 --> 00:59:09.760
real world stuff. He doesn't want
to remember any of it. Just wipe

834
00:59:09.800 --> 00:59:14.840
my slate clean. And B.
I want to live well. I want

835
00:59:14.840 --> 00:59:16.039
to be rich. I want to
live a high class life. I want

836
00:59:16.039 --> 00:59:19.800
to be I want to live an
easy life from here on out. Yeah.

837
00:59:20.079 --> 00:59:22.840
Smith agrees and says that in return, he needs the access codes to

838
00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:28.000
the Zion mainframe. That's That's That's
City, the Free City still on Earth.

839
00:59:28.400 --> 00:59:30.079
Cipher says he doesn't have them,
but he'll give Smith the one who

840
00:59:30.079 --> 00:59:35.559
does, Morpheus. We cut to
Morpheus telling Neo that he's taking him to

841
00:59:35.599 --> 00:59:39.320
see the Oracle. The crew is
all very excited. Ooh, Morpheus really

842
00:59:39.320 --> 00:59:42.280
believes Neo is the one. He's
gonna take him see the Oracle. So

843
00:59:42.679 --> 00:59:46.960
everyone who can enter the Matrix enters
the matrix. Morpheus, Neo, Trinity,

844
00:59:47.000 --> 00:59:52.519
and Cipher head to the Oracle,
while Switch, Apoc and Mouse keep

845
00:59:52.559 --> 00:59:57.039
watch on their exit say they stay
back. Before they depart, Cipher drops

846
00:59:57.039 --> 01:00:00.199
a cell phone in the trash can, and this signals to the agents what

847
01:00:00.239 --> 01:00:05.280
their location is. I have two
fashion notes here. Please, not even

848
01:00:05.440 --> 01:00:08.519
Carrie Moss can pull off this leather
smock they have her in here, like,

849
01:00:08.760 --> 01:00:10.719
I don't know why they put her
in this. It looks like an

850
01:00:10.840 --> 01:00:15.480
art teacher smock over her leather pants. Is this the one where it looks

851
01:00:15.480 --> 01:00:19.920
like a dress? Yeah? I
like this one. No, I really

852
01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:24.239
like it. It's like the suggestion
of femininity without actual femininity. Okay,

853
01:00:24.440 --> 01:00:29.760
okay, But the fact that Laurence
Fishburne can still pull off gravtas with this

854
01:00:29.880 --> 01:00:32.119
riddler looking tie that he has on. He is like a bright neon green

855
01:00:32.199 --> 01:00:36.760
pattern tie. Yeah, he fares
less well in this scene to make a

856
01:00:36.840 --> 01:00:42.719
casus. Also, every single thing
they put Switch in is one no notes.

857
01:00:43.400 --> 01:00:45.559
Switch is the fashion goddess of this
film. Well, she also,

858
01:00:45.599 --> 01:00:49.440
and they put her in white for
some reason. She's almost always in white

859
01:00:49.519 --> 01:00:52.639
leather while everyone else in black level, And she's got white hair, short

860
01:00:52.639 --> 01:00:54.800
white hair, and she's got very
pale skin. So it's a little monochromatic

861
01:00:54.800 --> 01:00:58.360
in the way that like in the
way that carry in Moss is also a

862
01:00:58.360 --> 01:01:00.920
little monochromatic with her dark hair.
It's fantastic. In the car on the

863
01:01:00.960 --> 01:01:05.320
way to the Oracle, Neo asks
Trinity if she's ever seen the Oracle,

864
01:01:05.360 --> 01:01:07.840
and Trinity says she has, But
when Neo asks what the oracle said,

865
01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:10.880
she seems hesitant to share. She
doesn't want to tell them. Yeah,

866
01:01:12.159 --> 01:01:15.679
none of your business, fucker,
we met yesterday. Back off, back

867
01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:21.880
off. Morpheus reminds Neo that the
Oracle is a guide who can help him

868
01:01:21.920 --> 01:01:27.480
find the path. They arrive,
They're welcomed into this very zen space.

869
01:01:27.519 --> 01:01:30.400
This is easily the warmest place we've
seen, and like everywhere else in the

870
01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:35.960
matrix is like blue filters. Keanu
has never looked so pale as he does

871
01:01:35.960 --> 01:01:38.000
in like the office setting of this
of this movie, but in here,

872
01:01:38.079 --> 01:01:42.920
like it's like warm sunlight feeling,
it's very different. There are a lot

873
01:01:43.000 --> 01:01:47.320
of children there. They're accomplishing feats
of telekinesis and matter manipulation, and an

874
01:01:47.320 --> 01:01:53.480
aid introduces the children as quote unquote
the other potentials, which will absolutely not

875
01:01:53.519 --> 01:01:58.239
be referenced again in this movie.
Yeah. I have to presume they pick

876
01:01:58.320 --> 01:02:01.679
that up on later movies, because
it seems like they're all searching for the

877
01:02:01.719 --> 01:02:06.360
one, and these are the kids
that they think might be the one for

878
01:02:06.440 --> 01:02:09.440
some reason, because they already have
these abilities as children. Whereas yeah,

879
01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:12.239
well, also, there was a
point in the movie, I don't know

880
01:02:12.239 --> 01:02:15.920
if it's been said already that Morpheus
says they don't usually take people out of

881
01:02:15.960 --> 01:02:20.239
the Matrix at the age of Neo, like Neo's older than they try to

882
01:02:20.280 --> 01:02:23.280
take people out when they're younger so
they can adapt better. But Neo they

883
01:02:23.280 --> 01:02:27.800
got to a little late, which
also make question makes me question Cipher,

884
01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:30.760
like, yeah, what happened?
Who's asleep on that wheel because he's only

885
01:02:31.039 --> 01:02:35.880
canonically been there nine years. Yeah, and Trinity was in the matrix long

886
01:02:35.960 --> 01:02:37.920
enough to be a famous hacker,
so she wasn't taken out at ten.

887
01:02:38.559 --> 01:02:42.920
Yeah, that's true, but she
could have been fifteen maybe or something.

888
01:02:42.960 --> 01:02:45.880
But yeah, yeah, yeah,
Okay. So Neo speaks to the young

889
01:02:45.960 --> 01:02:50.639
boy who's bald obviously made to look
like a little bit like a monk,

890
01:02:51.280 --> 01:02:54.039
and the young boy teaches him to
bend a spoon with his mind because there

891
01:02:54.159 --> 01:02:59.880
is no spoon, there's so many
reflections, and then the reflection gets twisted

892
01:02:59.880 --> 01:03:02.079
in this movie, or the reflection
gets cut up which I which I think

893
01:03:02.159 --> 01:03:07.599
is a very like I think it's
another interesting thing about a trans identity.

894
01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:09.239
Right, Like you're looking in the
mirror and then the mirror changes, you're

895
01:03:09.519 --> 01:03:14.960
what you're looking at. Neo is
ushered in to meet the Oracle played by

896
01:03:15.039 --> 01:03:20.119
Gloria Foster, again a very warm
presence. Can we overstate how good she

897
01:03:20.280 --> 01:03:24.239
is in this No, she operates
at a completely different frequency than everyone else

898
01:03:24.239 --> 01:03:28.239
in the movie. Yeah she's,
she's a she's in a play. She's

899
01:03:28.559 --> 01:03:34.079
yeah, yeah she is. And
she's just so calm. Everyone else in

900
01:03:34.079 --> 01:03:37.320
the movie is tense and intense and
like anxious, and she is just chill.

901
01:03:37.639 --> 01:03:42.800
But she's also chill in a very
like normal is like a bad word

902
01:03:42.800 --> 01:03:45.880
because it's like it doesn't adequately describe
it in a grounded way. She's very

903
01:03:46.119 --> 01:03:51.199
yeah, because like I would say, Morpheus is also very calm the whole

904
01:03:51.280 --> 01:03:54.159
movie. But it's almost like zen
master calm. Yes, it's almost like

905
01:03:54.440 --> 01:03:58.840
this, like I have studied the
art of calmness, and now I will

906
01:03:58.920 --> 01:04:01.000
I will show you calmness. Whereas
with this woman, it just seems to

907
01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:04.800
come naturally. It's like grandmotherly almost. Yes, yes, that's exactly it.

908
01:04:04.800 --> 01:04:08.719
It's very comforting. Yeah, so
she smiles. She's like, we

909
01:04:08.719 --> 01:04:12.320
said, a very maternal presence.
She's got this scene, it all vibe.

910
01:04:13.320 --> 01:04:15.760
Guess what she's seen it all.
She asks him if he thinks he's

911
01:04:15.800 --> 01:04:19.559
the one, and he admits he
doesn't know, and she tells him being

912
01:04:19.639 --> 01:04:23.679
the one is like being in love. No one can tell you you are,

913
01:04:23.840 --> 01:04:28.719
you just know it balls to bones. Ah, excellent good writing.

914
01:04:29.239 --> 01:04:31.639
The Oracle gets down to brass tacks
with him pretty quickly, and she tells

915
01:04:31.679 --> 01:04:35.920
him that unfortunately, you are not
the one, despite what Morpheus believes.

916
01:04:36.440 --> 01:04:41.039
I'm sorry, it's not you kid. You have the gift. You seem

917
01:04:41.079 --> 01:04:45.119
to be waiting for something to like
activate the gift, but it's not coming

918
01:04:45.159 --> 01:04:47.199
in this life. Maybe in the
next one, yeah, which is again

919
01:04:47.480 --> 01:04:50.599
kind of posits that this woman knows
that, like we all get a second

920
01:04:50.599 --> 01:04:54.840
life. And I'm like, could
we pause there for a moment. So

921
01:04:55.199 --> 01:04:57.760
reincarnation is a thing, right,
that's the real thing. We can to

922
01:04:57.760 --> 01:05:00.159
actually do this again. Yeah.
Then she tell him that soon he'll have

923
01:05:00.199 --> 01:05:05.559
to decide between saving his own life
and Morpheus's because Morpheus believes so much in

924
01:05:05.639 --> 01:05:09.639
you that he is going to sacrifice
himself to save you, and you have

925
01:05:09.719 --> 01:05:15.559
to decide do you sacrifice yourself to
save Morpheus. Neo is shaken. She's

926
01:05:15.559 --> 01:05:16.519
like, oh, sorry, buddy, I know that was a whole lot

927
01:05:16.559 --> 01:05:19.840
of news all at once. She
offers him a cookie. Yeah, and

928
01:05:19.880 --> 01:05:23.119
he's like, She's like, hey, listen, you don't believe in any

929
01:05:23.119 --> 01:05:27.119
of this bullshit anyway, because you
don't believe in fate, So why would

930
01:05:27.159 --> 01:05:30.239
you even listen to me? After
all? It's great, it's a great

931
01:05:30.280 --> 01:05:31.840
scene. It's a great scene that
Gloria Foster, by the way, was

932
01:05:32.239 --> 01:05:36.719
married to Clarence Williams, the third
who was the dad in Purple rain Oh

933
01:05:38.079 --> 01:05:41.800
really remember like the one actor in
Purple Rainey said was a real actor.

934
01:05:41.840 --> 01:05:44.559
That's what she was married to.
All right? Cool? Yeah, So

935
01:05:44.679 --> 01:05:47.599
the team heads back to the extraction
point. They meet up with switching apoc

936
01:05:47.679 --> 01:05:50.800
at the door. Mouse is inside. He is in the room with the

937
01:05:50.880 --> 01:05:56.840
exit. As they climb the stairs, Neo notices a black cat crossing through

938
01:05:56.840 --> 01:06:00.400
the doorway twice in a row,
and he says, oh, do deja

939
01:06:00.559 --> 01:06:05.039
vu? The team goes on high
alert. Deja vu indicates a glitch in

940
01:06:05.039 --> 01:06:10.280
the matrix, kind of Sappie right
there. Because I saw the movie once

941
01:06:10.639 --> 01:06:13.920
a long ass time ago. I
barely have seen it. I don't like

942
01:06:13.960 --> 01:06:15.199
this week when I watched it again, I was like, oh, yeah,

943
01:06:15.239 --> 01:06:18.079
I'm kind of remembering this, but
I didn't really remember it. And

944
01:06:18.360 --> 01:06:24.320
yet at least once or twice a
year, I will have a dja vu

945
01:06:24.719 --> 01:06:28.159
and I will go, whoof glitch
in the Matrix? Yeah? That line

946
01:06:28.320 --> 01:06:31.440
stopped Daid with me. Mm hmm. Yeah. So the glitch in the

947
01:06:31.480 --> 01:06:35.679
matrix, they say usually happens when
they change something. And we cut to

948
01:06:35.760 --> 01:06:40.119
Mouse, who's in the room.
And Mouse is getting an alert because Tank

949
01:06:40.199 --> 01:06:43.239
is noticing that something is weird,
and he runs to the window and he

950
01:06:43.239 --> 01:06:46.920
throws open the window and it's been
bricked up, so the Matrix has bricked

951
01:06:46.960 --> 01:06:50.760
over the building. Once everybody's inside, so they can't get out. Mouse

952
01:06:50.840 --> 01:06:55.440
grabs like two huge machine guns and
now that Like, there's been some gunfire

953
01:06:55.519 --> 01:06:58.960
before in this movie, but from
here to the end, the number of

954
01:06:59.000 --> 01:07:04.320
bullets fired is genuinely it's astronomical,
like, yes, insane, So wars

955
01:07:04.360 --> 01:07:10.679
have been fought with fewer bullets this
movie has. Yes, Mouse goes down,

956
01:07:10.800 --> 01:07:14.639
he's he is killed. Everyone realizes
that the building has been bricked up

957
01:07:14.760 --> 01:07:17.199
on the inside, and Morpheus tells
Tank, you got to tell me where

958
01:07:17.280 --> 01:07:20.559
the pipes are. Where the pipes. Tank tells them. They run and

959
01:07:20.599 --> 01:07:25.519
they hide inside the walls of the
building, right, So where the pipes

960
01:07:25.559 --> 01:07:27.920
are is where there's space in between
the walls, So that's where they go.

961
01:07:28.679 --> 01:07:32.920
They're hanging in there. The agents
and various policemen are combing the building

962
01:07:33.000 --> 01:07:38.679
looking for them. Everything's going okay, and then Cipher coughs, alerting the

963
01:07:38.679 --> 01:07:42.719
agents to their location. Morpheus,
in an attempt to save Neo, bursts

964
01:07:42.760 --> 01:07:45.400
through the wall and engages the agents. He yells at Trinity, you run,

965
01:07:45.559 --> 01:07:48.880
save Neo. You have to save
Neo. She does. Over Neo's

966
01:07:48.880 --> 01:07:53.039
protests. Neo is trying to say, the Oracle told me that wasn't the

967
01:07:53.039 --> 01:07:56.559
one. You can't like, don't
sacrifice yourself to save me. Trinity takes

968
01:07:56.599 --> 01:08:00.719
him out. They start running with
the other people. Morpheus is visio beaten

969
01:08:00.760 --> 01:08:03.199
and taken prisoner. Cipher manages to
split off from the rest of the group

970
01:08:03.559 --> 01:08:09.119
and calls Tank for an extraction.
Tank provides one and answers the phone call

971
01:08:09.199 --> 01:08:11.440
from Trinity. A few moments later, with the rest of the team and

972
01:08:11.480 --> 01:08:15.159
sends them to the same location.
Cipher gets there first and ports back up

973
01:08:15.199 --> 01:08:17.840
to the ship. He shoots Tank
and Dozer. When I tell you,

974
01:08:17.880 --> 01:08:21.720
I squealed me too. He was
like, not Tank, he's too good

975
01:08:21.760 --> 01:08:25.920
looking. Poor Dozer. Poor Dozer, because, by the way, is

976
01:08:25.920 --> 01:08:29.239
also very good looking, very handsome. I'm sure a tremendous actor. Got

977
01:08:29.319 --> 01:08:31.720
very little to do in this movie. Cannon fodder, though, Let's get

978
01:08:31.760 --> 01:08:35.079
real cannon shatter. As soon as
he dies, I'm like, well,

979
01:08:35.159 --> 01:08:38.279
yeah, someone has to die or
else. There's no stakes. No,

980
01:08:38.439 --> 01:08:44.600
not Tank, anyone but Tank.
I don't want to go on spoiler alert.

981
01:08:45.119 --> 01:08:48.920
We do get tank backs. Dozer
does die, but Tank lives.

982
01:08:49.479 --> 01:08:53.359
I think they knew. The Lekowskis
knew. They were like, if we

983
01:08:53.439 --> 01:08:56.520
take this away from the viewing audience, we're going to get in some deep

984
01:08:56.520 --> 01:08:59.479
shit for this. Yeah, there's
gonna be a riot. Trinity calls for

985
01:08:59.479 --> 01:09:04.520
an ex Riots of nineteen ninety nine
just what no one expected, the horny

986
01:09:04.560 --> 01:09:11.680
tank riots. Riots. The theaters
were rated by angry, vicious, horny

987
01:09:11.720 --> 01:09:18.159
teenagers screaming not you. Trinity calls
for an extraction, and Cipher is there

988
01:09:18.279 --> 01:09:23.479
remember Tank is gone. Now he's
been shot. Cipher answers in a truly

989
01:09:23.640 --> 01:09:28.000
spectacular monologue, an oscar for Joey
Pants, for this monologue, please.

990
01:09:28.840 --> 01:09:32.359
He monologues about how he's tired of
war, tired of the shitty food they're

991
01:09:32.359 --> 01:09:39.000
eating, tired of Morpheus with all
his bullshit. All the while he's like

992
01:09:39.239 --> 01:09:43.640
sniffing at Trinity's unconscious body inside the
ship, and he tells her, you

993
01:09:43.640 --> 01:09:45.560
know, for years I thought I
was in love with you, But I

994
01:09:45.560 --> 01:09:49.640
guess I'm not for heterosexuals on this
trip, on this on this space ship,

995
01:09:49.680 --> 01:09:55.479
it's thin on the ground. The
numbers are not adding up. No

996
01:09:55.479 --> 01:10:00.880
one's getting off together. I get
claim switch for the head aside here who

997
01:10:00.880 --> 01:10:03.359
knows what switches? The whole thing
is good, good for them, whatever

998
01:10:03.399 --> 01:10:08.199
they whatever they want. But still
I get, I get. I get

999
01:10:08.199 --> 01:10:13.399
the frustration of a heterosexual man on
this ship where he's like, holy shit,

1000
01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:18.000
I have switched hands back and forth
eight times. It no longer feels

1001
01:10:18.039 --> 01:10:23.000
different. This is a fucking sausage
fist. I do not care for the

1002
01:10:23.039 --> 01:10:28.000
future. He leaps from Trinity's body
onto Morpheus's and says that he wishes he

1003
01:10:28.039 --> 01:10:30.279
could be there when Morpheus breaks,
he gets really ugly. In this moment,

1004
01:10:30.359 --> 01:10:34.479
right, Cipher unplugs a pock and
switch, killing them in front of

1005
01:10:34.520 --> 01:10:38.760
Trinity. So while he unplugs them
in the real world, Trinity sees them

1006
01:10:38.840 --> 01:10:43.000
die in front of her. In
the matrix. Cipher reasons that Neo is

1007
01:10:43.039 --> 01:10:46.039
not the one after all, if
he were, a miracle would occur at

1008
01:10:46.079 --> 01:10:50.239
that moment to save Neo's life.
So he gets on top of Neo's body.

1009
01:10:50.279 --> 01:10:54.880
He goes to reached around to he
gives them the whole reach around.

1010
01:10:55.399 --> 01:10:58.720
He goes to unplug Neo. The
number of times I've given guys the all

1011
01:10:58.760 --> 01:11:01.159
reach around, you'll reach around just
to kill them in the matrix yep.

1012
01:11:02.640 --> 01:11:11.720
At that moment, rightet Moore in
the matrix, at that moment, right

1013
01:11:11.720 --> 01:11:15.640
before he unhooks Theo, he looks
up and he sees that Tank, gorgeous,

1014
01:11:15.640 --> 01:11:19.840
gorgeous Tank is still alive, thank
God, training a gun on him.

1015
01:11:20.159 --> 01:11:26.199
Tank kills Cipher and extracts Neo and
Trinity from the matrix. The line

1016
01:11:26.199 --> 01:11:29.000
that he has to say, so
he's he's whispering to Trinity and he's like,

1017
01:11:29.039 --> 01:11:31.279
do you believe that he's the one? Do you believe it, and

1018
01:11:31.319 --> 01:11:35.199
she whispers yes, and then it's
a it's on Joey Pants, who we

1019
01:11:35.279 --> 01:11:39.800
have praise to the high heavens.
But the line they have given him is

1020
01:11:40.119 --> 01:11:43.439
no, I don't believe it.
And then it cuts to like tank holding

1021
01:11:43.439 --> 01:11:45.359
the gun on him, and I'm
like, that is a rough line to

1022
01:11:45.399 --> 01:11:48.119
give someone on their exit. Just
have them look up and go oh or

1023
01:11:48.239 --> 01:11:51.600
no or something. The I don't
believe it is so much. Give him

1024
01:11:51.640 --> 01:11:55.239
a shit or a fuck, give
me something I believe he would say.

1025
01:11:55.520 --> 01:12:00.479
Yeah. In the Matrix, Smith
and the other agents interrogate Morpheus. They

1026
01:12:00.560 --> 01:12:03.279
shoot him full of drugs, they
beat him. Morpheus refuses to give up

1027
01:12:03.319 --> 01:12:08.880
the Zion codes under their torture,
and Smith tells the other agents to leave

1028
01:12:09.039 --> 01:12:14.319
and disconnects from their communication. He's
truly alone with Morpheus, and he tells

1029
01:12:14.359 --> 01:12:19.239
them that he hates the Matrix.
He cannot stand the stench of humanity any

1030
01:12:19.279 --> 01:12:25.279
longer, and he wants the access
codes to Zion so he can destroy humanity

1031
01:12:25.760 --> 01:12:28.880
and free himself from the Matrix forever, because there will no longer be a

1032
01:12:28.960 --> 01:12:32.000
need for the Matrix if Zion is
destroyed. And then he destroys all the

1033
01:12:32.039 --> 01:12:35.800
humans. This doesn't really make sense
because he needs the humans in order to

1034
01:12:38.039 --> 01:12:44.800
So it's basically like an AI that
wants to end itself, but isn't all

1035
01:12:44.880 --> 01:12:48.880
of AI connected, which is why
he disconnected the ear piece. So he

1036
01:12:48.960 --> 01:12:53.840
is a sentient being in this moment
wishing for the sweet release of death,

1037
01:12:53.880 --> 01:12:57.279
and the only way to do that
is to literally kill all the humans.

1038
01:12:57.600 --> 01:13:00.439
Yeah it this says, you're right, This doesn't make it. I'm just

1039
01:13:00.520 --> 01:13:03.000
kind of talking in here. It's
in circles, like I don't know what

1040
01:13:03.079 --> 01:13:08.039
the revealed. This is the one
thing I can't quite wrap my head,

1041
01:13:08.119 --> 01:13:11.920
right, Like I get the idea
of wanting to have this AI character being

1042
01:13:11.960 --> 01:13:15.039
like you think I like the matrix
because it's what we set up and I

1043
01:13:15.079 --> 01:13:18.760
fucking hate it. Like that's an
interesting twist. But then what he should

1044
01:13:18.800 --> 01:13:23.119
actually say is, so if you
give me the codes, Desion, I

1045
01:13:23.119 --> 01:13:26.079
will let you there. I want
to take down the matrix too. I

1046
01:13:26.119 --> 01:13:30.319
want to die. I genuinely want
to end my on life. Yeah,

1047
01:13:30.319 --> 01:13:33.439
this whole existence, all of this, which is not what he says,

1048
01:13:33.479 --> 01:13:36.560
but that's what he should say,
right because they want him to sound human.

1049
01:13:38.079 --> 01:13:41.760
Yeah, way, like he has
almost a humanity like a loathing that

1050
01:13:41.880 --> 01:13:45.399
is because machines don't give a shit
what we're like, Yeah, they don't

1051
01:13:45.399 --> 01:13:48.680
care that we suck. Yeah,
you know that they're not sw meta toilet

1052
01:13:48.720 --> 01:13:53.520
would be if it knew what we
did to it every day. There's this

1053
01:13:53.640 --> 01:13:57.039
really interesting moment in this scene because
I was thinking about this before the scene

1054
01:13:57.039 --> 01:13:59.640
came up, where I was like, this is I actually had it like

1055
01:13:59.680 --> 01:14:01.520
Snart in my notes. I was
like, this is bullshit. The Matrix

1056
01:14:01.600 --> 01:14:06.079
was all created so that humanity can
live and perpetual slavery to the machines.

1057
01:14:06.279 --> 01:14:10.920
They created this world. This was
the best they could do. With Keanu

1058
01:14:11.039 --> 01:14:14.800
still getting yelled at by his boss
with his dumb fucking job, and everyone

1059
01:14:14.840 --> 01:14:17.520
seems pretty miserable, and I was
like I was about to ding the movie

1060
01:14:17.560 --> 01:14:21.199
hard on it. And then it's
explained in this scene where he says the

1061
01:14:21.239 --> 01:14:26.920
original version. Agent Smith says the
original version of the Matrix was supposed to

1062
01:14:26.960 --> 01:14:31.039
be a utopia, and humans literally
did not know how to function under happiness.

1063
01:14:31.560 --> 01:14:35.520
They sought the darkness so much that
they just died. They kept waking

1064
01:14:35.600 --> 01:14:41.600
up. The Matrix couldn't hold them. Yeah, isn't that like a fascinating

1065
01:14:41.760 --> 01:14:45.079
count like it is contract like what
that's in my notes too, of like

1066
01:14:45.199 --> 01:14:49.039
this is to think that that we
as humans find it so much easier,

1067
01:14:49.039 --> 01:14:51.600
Like even if you think about it
in life, like something good happens and

1068
01:14:51.680 --> 01:14:56.880
it lifts you up for you know, like an hour or something, but

1069
01:14:56.960 --> 01:15:00.720
something bad happens and the whole week
is ruined and like you yeah in that

1070
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:02.720
bad moment. Oh, if you're
like me, I'm always waiting for the

1071
01:15:02.760 --> 01:15:05.239
other shoe to drop, always,
yeah, always, I'm never happy.

1072
01:15:05.279 --> 01:15:09.560
I'm never fully happy because I'm like, well, but when is the disaster

1073
01:15:09.680 --> 01:15:13.560
that I know is coming? And
it's like all evidence to the contrary,

1074
01:15:13.640 --> 01:15:16.680
there's never been the disaster. It
is a super interesting like peek into the

1075
01:15:16.760 --> 01:15:21.039
human psyche, and like the movie
is super interesting because on some level it's

1076
01:15:21.079 --> 01:15:25.800
extremely surfacing. Right, this is
not a takedown to the movie, but

1077
01:15:25.880 --> 01:15:29.720
it's very like it doesn't explain things. It moves quickly. It doesn't try

1078
01:15:29.760 --> 01:15:32.359
to get too deep because because then
it triggers conversations like this where you're like,

1079
01:15:32.359 --> 01:15:34.680
but why does the AI hate itself? It doesn't make any sense?

1080
01:15:35.039 --> 01:15:39.680
Yeah, but every once in a
while it does kind of delve into the

1081
01:15:39.760 --> 01:15:43.760
human psyche a little bit and you're
like, Okay, well that's fucking interesting.

1082
01:15:44.159 --> 01:15:46.279
I think that's another maybe reason why, like some critics were a little

1083
01:15:46.319 --> 01:15:50.199
bit like, this is all style
and no substance. It's not no substance.

1084
01:15:50.239 --> 01:15:54.439
It is, however, I will
say, more style than substance.

1085
01:15:54.680 --> 01:15:59.000
It's more style and substance because they
don't develop their ideas. They kind of

1086
01:15:59.039 --> 01:16:02.399
throw their ideas out and then let
them sit there as like statements, as

1087
01:16:02.439 --> 01:16:06.880
opposed to interrogating them very much.
And it's not necessarily a ding on the

1088
01:16:06.920 --> 01:16:12.840
movie because the style is so revolutionary. Hm. We cut to the ship.

1089
01:16:13.399 --> 01:16:15.760
Neo, Trinity, and Tank discuss
pulling the plug on Morpheus to protect

1090
01:16:15.840 --> 01:16:21.840
Zion right because no one has ever
not cracked under agent questioning. Just as

1091
01:16:21.840 --> 01:16:26.760
they're about to do so, Neo
remembers the oracles words and he decides to

1092
01:16:26.840 --> 01:16:30.319
save Morpheus's life over his own.
Despite Trinity and Tank's doubt. Neo says

1093
01:16:30.319 --> 01:16:34.159
he believes he can bring Morpheus back, and the Oracle's prophecy will back him

1094
01:16:34.239 --> 01:16:39.039
up on that. Yep. He
heads back into the Matrix to rescue Morpheus,

1095
01:16:39.079 --> 01:16:41.359
and Trinity goes with him. He
tries to say no. He's like,

1096
01:16:41.399 --> 01:16:42.800
no, no, no, it's
too dangerous, and she's like,

1097
01:16:42.840 --> 01:16:45.920
I outrank you, I'm your commanding
officer. I'm going with you. Yep.

1098
01:16:46.359 --> 01:16:51.079
Neo and Trinity then go down and
lay siege to a skyscraper. It's

1099
01:16:51.359 --> 01:16:57.640
awesome, it is. The Duster
Hive has never been so strong as it

1100
01:16:57.680 --> 01:17:00.159
is in this movie. Yeah,
gos, kids everywhere rejoice. You have

1101
01:17:00.239 --> 01:17:04.159
been seen. You have been seen, as Paul writes here, and he's

1102
01:17:04.159 --> 01:17:10.640
not wrong. A genuinely unimaginable number
of bullets fly through the air as they

1103
01:17:10.680 --> 01:17:15.560
dispatch the security team and ride the
elevator cable to the roof skyscraper. Neo.

1104
01:17:15.680 --> 01:17:17.680
I got the impression that Neo's afraid
of fights, right, That's why

1105
01:17:17.720 --> 01:17:21.359
he wouldn't go on to the ledge
in the beginning. Oh, it never

1106
01:17:21.800 --> 01:17:25.199
occurred to me, But yeah,
that makes because there's a moment here where

1107
01:17:25.239 --> 01:17:29.000
he knows this. He's about to
ride the elevator rope all the way up,

1108
01:17:29.039 --> 01:17:32.439
and he has to tell himself the
spoon is not there, to like

1109
01:17:32.640 --> 01:17:36.600
psych himself up for this this trip
up right on the roof of the building,

1110
01:17:36.640 --> 01:17:42.439
Neo and Trinity fight another security squad
until an agent shifts into the body

1111
01:17:42.439 --> 01:17:45.079
of a helicopter pilot and engages them. Neo shoots at him, but the

1112
01:17:45.119 --> 01:17:49.359
agent dodges all of his bullets and
returns fire. Neo dodges the bullets so

1113
01:17:49.439 --> 01:17:53.079
not quite as cleanly as the agent, and he's nicked. As he falls

1114
01:17:53.079 --> 01:17:57.560
over. The agent stands over him, ready to finish him off, but

1115
01:17:57.640 --> 01:18:01.399
Trinity appears and shoots the agent in
the head. The body falls and it's

1116
01:18:01.439 --> 01:18:05.600
only the helicopter pilot again. So
maybe this is the first agent she's ever

1117
01:18:05.680 --> 01:18:09.079
killed. I think, well,
I think any other time she would seem

1118
01:18:09.119 --> 01:18:12.079
one, she would have run.
Yeah, that was the protocol. So

1119
01:18:12.159 --> 01:18:15.560
Trinity asks Neo how he dodged bullets
like the agent. She's never seen anyone

1120
01:18:15.600 --> 01:18:18.359
do that. This is all brand
new. Do you ever read the book

1121
01:18:18.359 --> 01:18:21.920
The Phantom told Booth? I did
not, Okay, So in this book,

1122
01:18:23.000 --> 01:18:25.119
this kid has to go on this
quest and there's a secret on this

1123
01:18:25.199 --> 01:18:27.239
quest, but no one can tell
him the secret. Everyone else knows the

1124
01:18:27.279 --> 01:18:29.119
secret, but they can't tell him. He has to go on this quest.

1125
01:18:29.159 --> 01:18:30.800
He goes in this quest and he
completes it, and he's like,

1126
01:18:30.840 --> 01:18:33.560
so what was the secret? And
They're like, it's impossible. What you

1127
01:18:33.600 --> 01:18:36.319
did was impossible. No one was
able to do it. But because you

1128
01:18:36.479 --> 01:18:42.000
didn't know it was impossible, you
believe that you could do it, and

1129
01:18:42.039 --> 01:18:45.720
so you did it. Holy shit. That's a great message, which is

1130
01:18:45.720 --> 01:18:49.560
kind of like what this moment is
to me. Like Neo doesn't know he

1131
01:18:49.560 --> 01:18:54.880
shouldn't be able to dodge bullets.
Yeah, Like he's been told he can

1132
01:18:54.920 --> 01:18:57.640
do anything, and he believes in
he just saw the agent do it,

1133
01:18:58.359 --> 01:19:01.119
why can't I do it? And
like he like levels up almost like through

1134
01:19:01.119 --> 01:19:05.359
ignorance. Wow. Yeah, Okay, you know have to admit when I

1135
01:19:05.399 --> 01:19:08.800
was a kid, I didn't read
The Phantom Told with because that name is

1136
01:19:08.920 --> 01:19:11.760
that name is dumb. It's not
the best name. But it's a great

1137
01:19:11.760 --> 01:19:15.199
book. I literally judged a book
by its cover, and I am recording

1138
01:19:15.239 --> 01:19:19.079
it right now. Trinity, with
the help of a download from Tank,

1139
01:19:19.199 --> 01:19:24.319
takes the controls of the helicopter and
pilots it down to Morpheus's level. I

1140
01:19:24.319 --> 01:19:27.920
wouldn't mind getting a download from Tank
download into my tank anytime. He can

1141
01:19:27.960 --> 01:19:32.399
download onto me wherever he wants.
Download, upload, front load, backload,

1142
01:19:32.439 --> 01:19:39.920
anything you want, Buddy, Open
open season over here. Neo forces

1143
01:19:39.960 --> 01:19:44.840
the agents to hide from yet another
hell of bullets from the I don't know,

1144
01:19:45.119 --> 01:19:47.800
helicopter, machine gun cannon. I
don't know what this is. Somehow

1145
01:19:47.840 --> 01:19:53.600
all of these bullets mix mis Morpheus, who is sitting tied up, handcuffed

1146
01:19:53.680 --> 01:19:58.239
in the center of this room.
Who cares? Neo manages to make all

1147
01:19:58.279 --> 01:20:01.319
the agents flee. I love that
moment in any action movie when you have

1148
01:20:01.399 --> 01:20:04.479
to just go, oh, who
cares? Who cares? It's not important.

1149
01:20:06.119 --> 01:20:10.800
Morpheus manages to come out of his
drug stupor just enough to break his

1150
01:20:10.840 --> 01:20:14.159
handcuffs, right like he can believe
in himself that he can break the handcuffs.

1151
01:20:14.159 --> 01:20:17.720
He snaps the handcuffs, he sprints
towards the helicopter. Just as he's

1152
01:20:17.720 --> 01:20:21.039
about to leap, a bullet from
one of the agents catches his leg and

1153
01:20:21.079 --> 01:20:25.640
he stumbles, and Neo realizes that
he's not going to make the jump,

1154
01:20:25.920 --> 01:20:29.079
so he dies out of the helicopter, which he's attached himself to with a

1155
01:20:29.119 --> 01:20:32.640
cable, and catches Morpheus in mid
air. Trinity tries to fly away as

1156
01:20:32.640 --> 01:20:35.640
these two are swinging in between these
buildings. Like on the big screen.

1157
01:20:35.640 --> 01:20:41.159
This must have been fucking awesome.
The agents managed to pierce the helicopter's fuel

1158
01:20:41.199 --> 01:20:45.880
tank with a hail of bullets.
Neo and Morpheus drop onto a nearby roof,

1159
01:20:46.359 --> 01:20:50.359
and Trinity, on the other end
of Neo's cable, bails from the

1160
01:20:50.359 --> 01:20:55.600
copter just in times. It crashes
into a nearby building, and in slow

1161
01:20:55.680 --> 01:20:59.680
motion we see the impact kind of
bow all the windows out, and then

1162
01:20:59.680 --> 01:21:03.840
the glass shatters forward and it cuts
to this shot of Carrie Anne Moss swinging

1163
01:21:03.880 --> 01:21:09.640
away from this like circular explosion of
glass and slow motion. It's so cool.

1164
01:21:09.760 --> 01:21:14.159
It's so cool. I wonder if
they ever did a three D print

1165
01:21:14.199 --> 01:21:15.800
of this movie. Oh, they
must have, right, because that would

1166
01:21:15.800 --> 01:21:20.680
have been fucking cool to see this
movie in three D. They reunite and

1167
01:21:20.760 --> 01:21:25.840
Neo tries to confess to them what
the oracle told him, but Morpheus interrupts

1168
01:21:25.880 --> 01:21:29.720
him and he says the oracle told
him what he needed to know, and

1169
01:21:29.760 --> 01:21:31.319
he tells he says this line,
which I thought was so good. He

1170
01:21:31.359 --> 01:21:38.199
says, there's a difference between knowing
the path and walking the path, which,

1171
01:21:38.399 --> 01:21:42.560
when you put that the knowledge that
these writer directors were trans women in

1172
01:21:42.640 --> 01:21:46.039
the closet at this moment in their
lives or anyone in the closet, like

1173
01:21:46.039 --> 01:21:50.359
when you know that you're gay,
your trans or anything that you have to

1174
01:21:50.359 --> 01:21:55.439
come out about. You know it
for a long time before you walk it.

1175
01:21:55.960 --> 01:22:00.760
And like that's a very interesting concept. Oh that hit, I thought.

1176
01:22:00.199 --> 01:22:04.800
Yeah. So the trio sprint for
an exit in an abandoned subway,

1177
01:22:04.880 --> 01:22:08.920
right they know there's a phone there
that they can use to exit back right

1178
01:22:08.960 --> 01:22:13.640
into the real world. Morpheus gets
the phone exits first. Trinity and Neo

1179
01:22:13.720 --> 01:22:17.319
are now left on the platform.
There is an unhoused person looking at them,

1180
01:22:17.560 --> 01:22:20.960
and the agents catch on to the
fact that aha, there's someone in

1181
01:22:21.000 --> 01:22:27.000
that in that room with them,
and suddenly that unhoused person becomes Agent Smith.

1182
01:22:27.079 --> 01:22:31.600
They morph into Agent Smith, Trinity
displaying perhaps the worst timing in cinema

1183
01:22:31.680 --> 01:22:35.439
history, like don't give the woman
the dumb part. Come on, yeah,

1184
01:22:35.479 --> 01:22:39.239
come on, and you also like
she doesn't need to say anything here.

1185
01:22:39.279 --> 01:22:42.039
I guess you may want to see
it again what's coming, But like

1186
01:22:42.640 --> 01:22:45.239
we already, you have seated it
already. This doesn't need to happen.

1187
01:22:45.560 --> 01:22:50.640
I can't tell you enough how the
phone is ringing ringing and ringing and ringing,

1188
01:22:50.800 --> 01:22:55.720
and in the amount of time It
takes the Trinity to to try to

1189
01:22:55.760 --> 01:22:58.680
say what she wants to say to
Neo. I keep screaming at the screen.

1190
01:22:59.039 --> 01:23:01.560
Wait till you're both the ship and
tell him there. Why are you

1191
01:23:01.680 --> 01:23:06.239
using this situation to confess something?
Right? So, she's like, Neo,

1192
01:23:06.359 --> 01:23:12.039
I have to tell you something that
the oracle told me. Everything the

1193
01:23:12.079 --> 01:23:16.239
oracle told me has come true,
everything but this, And Neo asks but

1194
01:23:16.520 --> 01:23:20.479
what, and Trinity's like, I
can't. I can't respond. I'm going

1195
01:23:20.520 --> 01:23:25.920
to pick up this extraction line right
now. Just as Agent Smith finally appears

1196
01:23:25.920 --> 01:23:29.119
and fires at me, I hope
you don't mind that I'm leaving you behind.

1197
01:23:29.359 --> 01:23:33.720
Sorry. Bye. She manages to
escape, right but the phone is

1198
01:23:33.760 --> 01:23:39.079
destroyed, cutting off Neo's exits,
and now Neo is stuck by himself with

1199
01:23:39.159 --> 01:23:45.439
an agent one on one. Agent
Smith calls him mister Anderson, and Trinity

1200
01:23:45.560 --> 01:23:48.199
says, run, Neo, run. Did you immediately think run Lola?

1201
01:23:48.279 --> 01:23:53.760
Run? Aha, Run Forest Run, Run Forest Run. It's an even

1202
01:23:53.800 --> 01:23:57.760
better one. To be clear,
Trinity and Murphius are on the ship and

1203
01:23:57.760 --> 01:24:00.600
they're just watching lines of code.
Yeah, that's what's telling them what's happening.

1204
01:24:00.800 --> 01:24:05.039
So we see two actors staring at
lines of code on the screen going

1205
01:24:05.119 --> 01:24:11.039
Run, Run, and then Morpheus
goes he's beginning to believe yeah, and

1206
01:24:11.079 --> 01:24:15.720
I'm like, this is this is
silly. I love it, but it's

1207
01:24:15.720 --> 01:24:18.640
silly. Yeah. Neo decides to
stand his ground and fight. He's not

1208
01:24:18.680 --> 01:24:23.039
going to run. So Neo and
Smith face off in the subway tunnel.

1209
01:24:23.119 --> 01:24:25.680
Neo gets the worst of it,
but he is holding his own. They

1210
01:24:25.680 --> 01:24:30.119
are exchanging blows. They wind up
on the subway tracks and Smith keeps referring

1211
01:24:30.159 --> 01:24:34.560
to Neo as mister Randerson. The
train starts to bear down on them,

1212
01:24:34.600 --> 01:24:41.439
and Neo manages to overpower Smith's Chokeold
earlier, we had seen Morpheus unable to

1213
01:24:41.520 --> 01:24:45.279
stop the agent's strength, Like the
Agent is physically stronger than Morpheus in the

1214
01:24:45.279 --> 01:24:47.760
matrix, but now Neo is stronger
than the agent. It's a difference,

1215
01:24:47.840 --> 01:24:53.840
right. He does a backflip up
onto the platform and he declares, my

1216
01:24:54.079 --> 01:25:01.359
name is Neo. Smith gets my
name is Neo Smith gets hit by the

1217
01:25:01.479 --> 01:25:09.199
train boom. Unfortunately, Smith is
able to shrug off the train strike and

1218
01:25:09.319 --> 01:25:13.119
reappears from the car when the door's
open, and Neo finally takes off.

1219
01:25:13.119 --> 01:25:16.239
He's like Okay, this guy's outclassing
me. Yeah. Meanwhile, back on

1220
01:25:16.279 --> 01:25:20.560
the ship, Squinties appear sent by
the agents and they attack the Nebech and

1221
01:25:20.600 --> 01:25:24.840
Nezzer. The crew cannot set off
the EMP. Remember that EMP. We

1222
01:25:24.880 --> 01:25:30.000
told you to remember magnetic pulse to
disable the attackers while Neo's in the matrix

1223
01:25:30.079 --> 01:25:32.680
or else he'll die because he'll be
cut off from his brain. He'll be

1224
01:25:32.680 --> 01:25:38.359
like unplugging him essentially. Neo flees
through the streets. He steals a cell

1225
01:25:38.399 --> 01:25:42.760
phone he calls Tank directs him back
to the hotel where we first met Trinity.

1226
01:25:43.159 --> 01:25:45.560
He sprints up the stairs all the
way to the room where Trinity was.

1227
01:25:45.840 --> 01:25:50.439
The phone is audibly ringing inside.
He throws open the door and Agent

1228
01:25:50.600 --> 01:25:56.199
Smith is there. Smith shoots Neo
in the chest. Neo's in shock.

1229
01:25:56.800 --> 01:26:00.880
Smith shoots him again. Neo stumbles
back. Smith empties his gun into Neo

1230
01:26:01.000 --> 01:26:06.279
point blank, and Neo collapses on
the floor dead. The Oracle was right.

1231
01:26:08.359 --> 01:26:15.800
End of movie and of movie.
Wow, that was unexpected JK.

1232
01:26:16.479 --> 01:26:21.680
On the ship, Trinity finishes her
confession. She goes to like Neo's body,

1233
01:26:21.800 --> 01:26:26.479
that the physical body on the ship, and she's like the Oracle told

1234
01:26:26.479 --> 01:26:29.399
me, I would fall in love
with the man who would be the one.

1235
01:26:29.880 --> 01:26:33.159
So you can't be dead because I
love you and I believe that you

1236
01:26:33.319 --> 01:26:39.920
are the one. Okay, Tinnity
kisses Neo. They met a day ago.

1237
01:26:40.199 --> 01:26:43.439
Really, I mean, I know
she's been following him in the matrix

1238
01:26:43.520 --> 01:26:45.720
and like looking at his code and
she thinks he's cute and all. I

1239
01:26:45.800 --> 01:26:50.159
get it. But she met him
a day ago. What if he opened

1240
01:26:50.199 --> 01:26:54.279
his eyes and he was like,
Trinity, I'm gay. I just don't

1241
01:26:54.279 --> 01:26:56.640
see you that way. No,
not even gay, not even gay.

1242
01:26:56.640 --> 01:27:00.000
He's just like Trinity, I'm really
sorry, but I just see us more

1243
01:27:00.079 --> 01:27:03.119
as friends. Have you I don't
know. Have you seen Tank? Because

1244
01:27:03.199 --> 01:27:09.840
I want to and I think you
should want to. Frank we cut the

1245
01:27:09.880 --> 01:27:13.319
Tank in the background, just crying
one loan tear. He's like, what,

1246
01:27:13.399 --> 01:27:19.439
Trinity, I'll be with you Tank, because if he was gay,

1247
01:27:19.520 --> 01:27:23.479
that would make that would make it
better. But it's almost worse if he's

1248
01:27:23.520 --> 01:27:26.439
totally stranging. No, No,
just to be clear, I am absolutely

1249
01:27:26.479 --> 01:27:30.880
into women, just not you specifically
you. I don't I don't care.

1250
01:27:31.119 --> 01:27:33.680
I just it's like a sister thing
with you, you know. Do you

1251
01:27:33.720 --> 01:27:41.279
get that? Do you feel that. She just She's like, I'm kidding.

1252
01:27:41.319 --> 01:27:43.000
I just said that. I just
said that. I thought it would

1253
01:27:43.000 --> 01:27:45.279
make you feel better. I don't
even think you're the one anyway, I

1254
01:27:45.279 --> 01:27:50.359
gotta go. She just she like
breaks into a breaks into a sweat,

1255
01:27:50.359 --> 01:27:58.560
and like walks out back. Drew
Barrymore is out the out there does whatever

1256
01:27:58.720 --> 01:28:01.439
Drew Barrymore thinks the moon walking is
out of the room, does the weird

1257
01:28:01.560 --> 01:28:08.159
fucking dance Drew Berrymore does. She
knocks over a table on the way out.

1258
01:28:08.199 --> 01:28:10.840
She's like, never mind, I
got it, trips over's corpse.

1259
01:28:10.880 --> 01:28:17.000
Oh no, do that? So
Neo in the in the Matrix, still

1260
01:28:17.000 --> 01:28:23.079
in the Matrix, stands up as
the agents turn around and shock the agents

1261
01:28:23.119 --> 01:28:26.000
fire their guns at him. So
okay, so let me go back.

1262
01:28:26.039 --> 01:28:28.079
I know I made a lot of
fun in that scene. But basically,

1263
01:28:28.800 --> 01:28:32.720
Trinity whispers she loves Neo into his
his ear. In the real world,

1264
01:28:33.159 --> 01:28:39.359
he physically can't hear her, and
yet somehow, Neo in the Matrix feels

1265
01:28:39.399 --> 01:28:45.359
the love of a good woman and
decides this is worth fighting for and stands

1266
01:28:45.479 --> 01:28:49.640
up against all the bullets he's just
been riddled with. Erica, this is

1267
01:28:49.680 --> 01:28:53.840
a Jesus Christ story. You have
to get on board. At a certain

1268
01:28:53.920 --> 01:28:57.720
point, he has to die,
he has to get resurrected, just like

1269
01:28:57.880 --> 01:29:00.920
Aslan and Narnia. He gonna die
and he gonna be fine. You have

1270
01:29:01.000 --> 01:29:08.239
to buy it. This makes her
Mary Magdalen fine, whatever. This is

1271
01:29:08.279 --> 01:29:12.920
the stuff that drives me. And
seeing at least the at least the man

1272
01:29:13.039 --> 01:29:15.159
wasn't kissing the woman to bring her
back to life. That's true. Hey

1273
01:29:15.199 --> 01:29:20.800
there's something she's she's prints and he's
snow white. Great cool. So okay.

1274
01:29:20.960 --> 01:29:25.800
So Neo, like I said,
decides not to die. Who wakes

1275
01:29:25.880 --> 01:29:28.760
up, turns around. The agents
start firing their guns at him, but

1276
01:29:28.880 --> 01:29:34.720
he suddenly can easily stop their bullets
by whispering no. We see Neo from

1277
01:29:34.800 --> 01:29:39.640
Neo's perspective that he sees the matrix
only as code. It's like that scene

1278
01:29:39.640 --> 01:29:43.279
in Terminator when the Terminator looks at
people and just sees code everywhere. It

1279
01:29:43.399 --> 01:29:46.479
is a very famous scene. So, like they're shooting and shooting, all

1280
01:29:46.479 --> 01:29:51.520
the bullets get really slow as they
approach Keanu reeves and stop in front of

1281
01:29:51.600 --> 01:29:56.000
him like he with his brain is
just stopping them. And then he just

1282
01:29:56.079 --> 01:29:59.920
taps one and it falls, and
then all the other bullets fall, Like

1283
01:30:00.159 --> 01:30:02.399
yeah, literally, he doesn't even
have to dodge bullets anymore. He can

1284
01:30:02.439 --> 01:30:06.199
stop them with his mind. Every
X Man fan says, Jean Gray did

1285
01:30:06.199 --> 01:30:09.600
it first, but that's okay,
we'll let it go. Moving on,

1286
01:30:09.680 --> 01:30:15.560
Paul, We're gonna let it go. So Neo dives into Agent Smith's body.

1287
01:30:15.000 --> 01:30:23.760
Uh, no, consent given,
Hot, it's a violation, but

1288
01:30:23.840 --> 01:30:29.279
it's fierce, so I'm gonna let
it go. Slay Queen Lay. The

1289
01:30:29.319 --> 01:30:34.840
body immediately distorts and cracks. A
blinding glow spreads outwards, and Smith explodes

1290
01:30:35.359 --> 01:30:40.239
like Neo dives into him and breaks
him from the inside. I mean,

1291
01:30:40.239 --> 01:30:45.479
you talk about deep breathing, but
this is something else that. As I

1292
01:30:45.560 --> 01:30:49.199
said it out loud, I was
like, oh, hello, enter me

1293
01:30:49.279 --> 01:31:00.720
and destroy me, my king.
As long as everyone's on birth control,

1294
01:31:00.760 --> 01:31:05.399
we're fine. We're fine, We're
fine. So Neo flexes and the matrix

1295
01:31:05.479 --> 01:31:10.000
distorts around him. The other agents
are like rot row, and they fucking

1296
01:31:10.079 --> 01:31:14.119
flee. They run away from him. Neo hears Trinity screaming at him that

1297
01:31:14.159 --> 01:31:15.840
he needs to get back to the
ship. Somehow he can hear her in

1298
01:31:15.880 --> 01:31:20.439
the real world. He exits the
matrix, and the crew discharges the electromagnetic

1299
01:31:20.479 --> 01:31:25.880
pulse to shake off the attackers that
are attacking their ship. Neo and Trinity

1300
01:31:26.000 --> 01:31:30.159
kiss, and we cut back to
a blank computer screen. A phone rings.

1301
01:31:30.560 --> 01:31:32.279
We hear Neo and voiceover say,
oh, should you do this?

1302
01:31:32.319 --> 01:31:35.039
Should you do this part? As
Keanu? Oh? Sure, yeah,

1303
01:31:35.439 --> 01:31:40.720
I know you're out there. I
can feel you now. I know that

1304
01:31:40.800 --> 01:31:45.479
you're afraid. You're afraid of us, you are afraid of change. I

1305
01:31:45.600 --> 01:31:49.439
don't know the future. I didn't
come here to tell you how this is

1306
01:31:49.520 --> 01:31:55.439
going to end. I came here
to tell you how it's going to begin.

1307
01:31:56.479 --> 01:31:59.760
I'm going to hang up the phone, and then I'm gonna show these

1308
01:31:59.800 --> 01:32:03.319
people what you don't want them to
see. I'm going to show them a

1309
01:32:03.399 --> 01:32:11.960
world without you, a world without
rules and controls, without borders or boundaries

1310
01:32:12.600 --> 01:32:16.520
or shopping or people or dogs.
Wait, I'm off, I'm off scratched.

1311
01:32:16.520 --> 01:32:19.680
I'm ascribing you went. You went
too a fugue state. You went

1312
01:32:19.720 --> 01:32:23.039
to a Keano fugue. Yep,
my bad, My bad. Hold on

1313
01:32:23.199 --> 01:32:28.399
via condios. Okay, I'm back. A world where anything is possible.

1314
01:32:28.760 --> 01:32:33.960
Where we go from there is a
choice. I leave to you via cone

1315
01:32:34.000 --> 01:32:39.399
matrix. He doesn't say that last
part, but I really wish he had,

1316
01:32:39.520 --> 01:32:42.880
but he thinks it if if he
had said that last part, ten

1317
01:32:42.920 --> 01:32:45.800
out of ten for this out of
ten, Yeah, Neo hangs up the

1318
01:32:45.840 --> 01:32:49.960
payphone. Rage against the machines.
Wake up comes on as Neo takes flight

1319
01:32:50.119 --> 01:32:57.039
into the air like Superman. Yeah. Another Jesus metaphor yep, end of

1320
01:32:57.279 --> 01:33:00.319
the matrix. If I were Jesus, I'd feel super pissed that a bunch

1321
01:33:00.359 --> 01:33:05.039
of people are stealing my origin story. Get your own. Things would be

1322
01:33:05.159 --> 01:33:11.159
like, listen, bitch, this
is my ip. It's my whole thing.

1323
01:33:11.680 --> 01:33:15.640
Do not speak The Catholic Church trying
to patent the Jesus metaphor for buddy

1324
01:33:15.760 --> 01:33:23.640
existence to existence because those assholes will
do it my church, Sus Marvel,

1325
01:33:25.600 --> 01:33:32.960
Sue C. S Lewis, everyone, DC Comics, everyone, hah,

1326
01:33:33.119 --> 01:33:36.239
All right, stick around. We
will be right back and we will give

1327
01:33:36.279 --> 01:33:49.319
you our random observations and final rankings. After just a couple of messages and

1328
01:33:49.720 --> 01:34:02.239
we're back Paul to all of our
random observations. As k Paul's face when

1329
01:34:02.239 --> 01:34:08.880
he says jiu jitsu really must be
seen. It's so good, Paul,

1330
01:34:09.680 --> 01:34:13.279
What random observations do you have about
this film? Uh? Okay, so

1331
01:34:14.199 --> 01:34:16.399
they're like, we kind of glossed
over a lot of the body horror stuff

1332
01:34:16.439 --> 01:34:20.840
and the grocer stuff with You know
what's so funny is I didn't even notice

1333
01:34:20.920 --> 01:34:24.760
any body horror in this movie.
You're the one as soon as I was

1334
01:34:24.800 --> 01:34:27.520
like, oh, I guess the
scorpion thing, genuinely can't think of any

1335
01:34:27.560 --> 01:34:30.399
of the others. All of the
plugs unplugging from the ports in his body

1336
01:34:30.439 --> 01:34:34.840
and flashing around. Oh yeah,
I guess. Yeah, you're right,

1337
01:34:34.960 --> 01:34:38.800
You're right. Totally goes over my
head. I don't even see it.

1338
01:34:38.960 --> 01:34:42.239
That video did its job. You're
like, nothing, nothing can upset me

1339
01:34:42.279 --> 01:34:46.600
anymore. Absolutely nothing will. Well, we'll supplant the image of a human

1340
01:34:46.640 --> 01:34:51.239
placenta falling out of a human woman
in real time when I was thirteen.

1341
01:34:51.359 --> 01:34:56.760
So there's this line when Morpheus is
explaining, like what's going on basically,

1342
01:34:57.279 --> 01:35:00.079
and they say this line over like
the shot a baby. I'm sure it's

1343
01:35:00.079 --> 01:35:04.159
a c GI baby, And the
baby is like freshly born, and it

1344
01:35:04.199 --> 01:35:08.079
has like a tube down its throat
and all of these tubes in it,

1345
01:35:08.319 --> 01:35:13.640
and Morpheus says, they liquefy the
dead to feed them intravenously to the living.

1346
01:35:14.319 --> 01:35:17.119
This is disgusting on a level.
The movie just simply didn't need this.

1347
01:35:17.680 --> 01:35:21.119
This is gratuitously disgusting. Although maybe
you know, in a way,

1348
01:35:21.119 --> 01:35:24.880
if you want to think of it
in like a in like a philosophical way,

1349
01:35:24.920 --> 01:35:27.720
it's a it's a form of rebirth. Like, no one really truly

1350
01:35:27.800 --> 01:35:31.359
dies if they are then used to
feed and create another life. Sure,

1351
01:35:31.600 --> 01:35:36.760
very very The Lion King your favorite
movie, Yeah, he becomes the grass,

1352
01:35:36.800 --> 01:35:40.439
and the antelopes eat the grass,
and then we eat the antelopes,

1353
01:35:40.439 --> 01:35:43.359
and then when we die, our
bodies become the grass. It's a it's

1354
01:35:43.359 --> 01:35:48.279
the circle of life. Pulse soilent, Green is people Okay anyway, Uh,

1355
01:35:48.359 --> 01:35:51.079
it's a cheeseball line, but I
love it. The first time Neo

1356
01:35:51.119 --> 01:35:56.319
meets Trinity, he remember she was
a famous hacker in the real in the

1357
01:35:56.359 --> 01:36:00.760
Matrix, I suppose, and he
meets her and he goes, you're I

1358
01:36:00.800 --> 01:36:04.199
thought you were a guy, as
she goes most guys do. Yeah,

1359
01:36:04.399 --> 01:36:09.279
great line, and it reminded me
of hackers. Once again, when he

1360
01:36:09.319 --> 01:36:12.279
meets Angelina Jolie and he's like,
I forget what her handle was and he's

1361
01:36:12.319 --> 01:36:15.720
like, that's so and so holy
shit. Yeah. In the car in

1362
01:36:15.760 --> 01:36:19.039
the beginning, Switch calls Keanu Reeves
copper top, and I was like,

1363
01:36:19.159 --> 01:36:23.800
why is she calling him copper top? Because I'd forgotten the whole idea of

1364
01:36:23.840 --> 01:36:27.560
this of this movie. At first, he very clearly has dark hair,

1365
01:36:27.960 --> 01:36:31.560
and then I realized, Oh,
it's she's calling him a battery. Oh,

1366
01:36:31.600 --> 01:36:34.960
and I was like, that's actually
very very clever. And I just

1367
01:36:35.000 --> 01:36:38.239
really I thought that was a great
line. Wow, that is it.

1368
01:36:38.279 --> 01:36:41.319
I did not clock that and all
I actually noticed that in that line too,

1369
01:36:41.319 --> 01:36:44.800
and I thought it was a reference
to a snake. Yeah, And

1370
01:36:44.840 --> 01:36:46.159
I was like, I don't get
why she's calling him a snake, and

1371
01:36:46.279 --> 01:36:50.479
I kind of just let it go
and moved on, moved on. There's

1372
01:36:50.560 --> 01:36:56.279
one like anachronism in the movie that
really drives me insane. I can't remember

1373
01:36:56.279 --> 01:36:59.119
who says it. I want to
say it's Cipher because it feels like the

1374
01:36:59.119 --> 01:37:02.359
most appropriate come from him. Neo
does something. He gets he gets into

1375
01:37:02.399 --> 01:37:05.119
this, you know, the training
program. He's really good at it.

1376
01:37:05.159 --> 01:37:09.720
And someone says, hey, Mikey, I think he likes it. Yeah,

1377
01:37:09.760 --> 01:37:13.399
that is a commercial from the early
eighties that they are referencing in this

1378
01:37:13.479 --> 01:37:15.520
film. Oh, that is a
good point. That is from nineteen ninety

1379
01:37:15.600 --> 01:37:19.279
nine, which even in nineteen ninety
nine would have seemed really weird if someone

1380
01:37:19.279 --> 01:37:25.439
were to say that line. But
it's actually twenty one ninety nine, just

1381
01:37:26.359 --> 01:37:30.239
weird. All Mikey likes it,
lasted. That is a piece of pop

1382
01:37:30.279 --> 01:37:33.880
culture ephemera that has made It's made
the journey. It has been in countless

1383
01:37:33.880 --> 01:37:39.359
movies, countless. Yeah, I
think it like when I like something I

1384
01:37:39.399 --> 01:37:41.960
haven't tried to be like, Oh, Mikey likes it like, that's immediate

1385
01:37:42.000 --> 01:37:48.039
thought. Ah, something I absolutely
love in fight choreography. And I want

1386
01:37:48.039 --> 01:37:51.399
to be very clear to all the
fight choreographers out there listening. I do

1387
01:37:51.479 --> 01:37:56.119
not mean this in any way as
a negative. What I'm about to say

1388
01:37:56.159 --> 01:37:59.560
careful because I am in the fight
choreographer union, and if whatever you say

1389
01:37:59.600 --> 01:38:01.039
gets me kicked out of that union, I'm gonna be very upsetting, be

1390
01:38:01.119 --> 01:38:05.640
furious. I don't worry. I
want to be very clear. This is

1391
01:38:05.680 --> 01:38:13.640
a compliment. But when bullets are
flying in the dozens and the person the

1392
01:38:14.039 --> 01:38:19.079
hero chooses to do like a cartwheel
round off through the bullets, as if

1393
01:38:19.119 --> 01:38:26.159
that somehow makes them smaller and harder
to hit when they're just spraying dozens of

1394
01:38:26.199 --> 01:38:30.239
bullets the general area of this person, and they have Kiana do it in

1395
01:38:30.279 --> 01:38:35.640
slow motion in the duster. Yes, he's extra. It's like, okay,

1396
01:38:36.039 --> 01:38:43.039
sure, Jan never change. More
cartwheels, More gymnastics from heroes,

1397
01:38:43.079 --> 01:38:46.680
Please gymnastics in the face of bullets. Simone Biles cannot be struck by bullets.

1398
01:38:46.680 --> 01:38:49.680
I don't know if you know that, it's impossible. It's impossible.

1399
01:38:49.760 --> 01:38:55.119
She turns, she turns a pam
Chenko and suddenly she's immune to bullets.

1400
01:38:56.359 --> 01:39:00.399
I just have one more. It's
just one of the funniest I don't know

1401
01:39:00.439 --> 01:39:01.960
if it's an ad lib. I
don't know if it's in the script.

1402
01:39:02.359 --> 01:39:08.039
It is an extra who says it. So at one point, Neo steals

1403
01:39:08.079 --> 01:39:11.119
some guy's phone to talk, like
on the cell phone right to like to

1404
01:39:11.800 --> 01:39:15.439
talk to Tank or Trinity or something. And the guy who's on the phone

1405
01:39:15.479 --> 01:39:18.000
that he steals is in the middle
of a conversation, a man in a

1406
01:39:18.039 --> 01:39:24.279
business suit, and he just goes
yep, flats or pumps, and then

1407
01:39:24.319 --> 01:39:27.600
Neo takes his phone and he goes, hey, my phone and I'm like,

1408
01:39:28.319 --> 01:39:30.720
can we get back to the flats
or pumps? Guy? Was that

1409
01:39:30.840 --> 01:39:35.279
fact? Same thought? What was
what was that conversation about? Was he

1410
01:39:35.479 --> 01:39:40.840
ordering shoes? Was he asking his
partner to wear flats? And or?

1411
01:39:40.880 --> 01:39:43.319
But like, like, what's the
shoe where you're gonna wear to this event

1412
01:39:43.319 --> 01:39:45.720
tonight? Because I need you to
look hot? Are you wearing flats or

1413
01:39:45.760 --> 01:39:51.760
pumps? I want desperately for that
to have been an ad lib. Yeah,

1414
01:39:51.760 --> 01:39:55.680
sure, flats or pumps works.
Let's move on. Aha, we

1415
01:39:55.720 --> 01:39:59.600
don't have time to refilm this.
Yeah, there's I just have one more

1416
01:39:59.600 --> 01:40:02.960
too. It's during the fight in
the subway between between Agent Smith and Neo.

1417
01:40:03.680 --> 01:40:09.159
At one point Neo punches and it's
in profile, right, so you

1418
01:40:09.239 --> 01:40:15.439
have you have Hugo Weaving's profile.
He catches Keanu Reeves's wrist and Keanu Reeves's

1419
01:40:15.479 --> 01:40:19.760
fingers just do this boop and they
poke out. He goes from like rock

1420
01:40:19.840 --> 01:40:25.520
to paper, incisors and Agent Smith
you're be weaving us to go. But

1421
01:40:28.119 --> 01:40:31.680
yeah, like he got finger jabbed
in the throat. It is so funny

1422
01:40:32.039 --> 01:40:36.520
and excellent. No notes again,
fight choreographers, none of these are changed

1423
01:40:36.560 --> 01:40:42.720
anything. Keep all of it Erica. How should we rank? How should

1424
01:40:42.720 --> 01:40:46.199
we rank the matrix? One to
ten barrels of ky jelly, So many

1425
01:40:46.279 --> 01:40:51.720
were used, so many. One
to ten. Carrie Anne Moss's ass just

1426
01:40:51.800 --> 01:40:56.760
singing, just singing in the breeze. Carrie Anne Moss's ass is taking over

1427
01:40:56.840 --> 01:41:00.600
for a Dell in her Las Vegas
residency. She is, yeah, yeah,

1428
01:41:00.720 --> 01:41:03.279
that is the kind of voice,
the liquid tones. Carrie Anne Moss's

1429
01:41:03.279 --> 01:41:08.520
ass will be singing at the next
presidential inauguration. Yeah. Carry Anne Moss's

1430
01:41:08.520 --> 01:41:13.239
ass was just booked as the next
Super Bowl halftime show. It will be

1431
01:41:13.319 --> 01:41:15.399
performing a medley of the greatest hits
of all decades. Yep, yep,

1432
01:41:15.479 --> 01:41:19.680
yeah carry Carrie and Carrie An Moss's
ass is going on tour with Taylor Swift

1433
01:41:19.680 --> 01:41:24.600
in Europe as we see Yeah,
and Taylor Swift is opening for the ass.

1434
01:41:24.680 --> 01:41:30.760
Yekay, that's the twist. Yes. One to ten hot computer hackers,

1435
01:41:30.840 --> 01:41:35.319
uncomfortably hot computer hackers, computer hackers
who also are underwear models in their

1436
01:41:35.319 --> 01:41:40.239
spare time, because that's what all
computer hackers look like. How about one

1437
01:41:40.279 --> 01:41:46.239
to ten I know kung fu,
one to ten jiu jitsu, I know

1438
01:41:46.600 --> 01:41:54.760
jiu jitsu. Yes, I'm gonna
learn ju jitsu jitsu. We should do

1439
01:41:54.800 --> 01:41:58.680
this fun because we're both delighted by
it. Yeah. Uh, do you

1440
01:41:58.720 --> 01:42:00.039
want to go first? Or shall
I go first this one? Why don't

1441
01:42:00.039 --> 01:42:05.800
you go first on this one?
Oh? Okay? Overall, I think

1442
01:42:05.840 --> 01:42:12.640
the movie ages pretty well. Does
not pass the Bechdel test sadly because the

1443
01:42:12.640 --> 01:42:16.479
Oracle never speaks. Really, the
Oracle never speaks to Trinity, and Trinity

1444
01:42:16.520 --> 01:42:20.640
and Switch probably exchange lines, but
like in a group, they never have

1445
01:42:20.720 --> 01:42:24.079
like a solo scene together. So
I don't know if you're gonna let that

1446
01:42:24.119 --> 01:42:26.560
go. Damn, I did not
catch it. This is not past the

1447
01:42:26.600 --> 01:42:30.600
Bechdel test. O Mother's Month,
for goodness sake, for God's sake.

1448
01:42:30.720 --> 01:42:35.600
Now Eric is giving it a zero. I never said anything but good,

1449
01:42:35.880 --> 01:42:40.520
good, great character for Trinity.
I think the Oracle only has one scene,

1450
01:42:40.560 --> 01:42:44.239
and I think that I think that's
a good character. Like I think

1451
01:42:44.239 --> 01:42:48.960
Gloria Foster did a great job with
it. Switches is less fleshed out as

1452
01:42:49.000 --> 01:42:53.319
all, like Red Shirts tend to
be. I think the crew could have

1453
01:42:53.359 --> 01:42:57.199
been more have a lot more gender
diversity in it. You don't need like

1454
01:42:57.439 --> 01:43:00.720
seven men and two women, like
come on, That's it's pretty obvious.

1455
01:43:00.960 --> 01:43:02.920
Keep Tank though, Let's get real, Yeah, keep Tank, Come on

1456
01:43:03.000 --> 01:43:06.000
now, why couldn't you've had a
sister? Sorry Dozer again, you were

1457
01:43:06.000 --> 01:43:13.079
also quite hot. As far as
racial diversity goes, pretty good. Like

1458
01:43:13.159 --> 01:43:17.560
Laurence Fishburne is a black man.
Famously, apparently Will Smith was actually approached

1459
01:43:17.560 --> 01:43:21.159
to play Neo first. It would
have been extremely diverse if Will Smith had

1460
01:43:21.159 --> 01:43:24.319
taken the role. I could see
him making it work. I mean,

1461
01:43:24.359 --> 01:43:27.479
I love Keanu so much, though
I can't yeah, I can't imagine anyone,

1462
01:43:27.479 --> 01:43:30.319
but ke Keanu was perfect. And
Keanu is of Chinese Hawaiian descent too,

1463
01:43:30.359 --> 01:43:34.479
so you know he's not a solely
Caucasian man. As far as the

1464
01:43:34.600 --> 01:43:41.079
queer stuff goes, there's actually kind
of like nothing other than all of the

1465
01:43:41.119 --> 01:43:45.960
subtext. But all of the subtext
is pretty there. And we obviously know

1466
01:43:45.000 --> 01:43:49.279
who directed this now, And I
think I think the trans identity really comes

1467
01:43:49.319 --> 01:43:56.199
through in the whole movie, just
the idea of trying to break free of

1468
01:43:56.239 --> 01:44:00.680
the bounds that you were born into
and trying to see like what is real

1469
01:44:00.680 --> 01:44:04.760
and what actually isn't real? Yeah, and and and like finding yourself in

1470
01:44:04.880 --> 01:44:12.920
that is I am not trans,
but from from my discussions with trans people

1471
01:44:12.920 --> 01:44:15.960
that I think that that would resonate
a great deal for them. Yeah.

1472
01:44:15.000 --> 01:44:19.000
Well, and also the Wakowskis were
born in the sixties. Yeah, they're

1473
01:44:19.000 --> 01:44:25.560
in their fifties now. Like being
trans when you're you know, in the

1474
01:44:26.359 --> 01:44:30.720
seventies eighties, and like that's a
different experience, I think than even than

1475
01:44:30.760 --> 01:44:34.880
even now being trans. Like,
yeah, to truly think about a world

1476
01:44:34.920 --> 01:44:41.039
in which like you're able to be
full of yourself must have seemed incredibly revolutionary.

1477
01:44:41.960 --> 01:44:43.960
And I know we talked about this
last thing a little bit off,

1478
01:44:44.000 --> 01:44:46.039
Mike. The only other thing that
kind of doesn't age super well is how

1479
01:44:46.680 --> 01:44:51.239
much gun violence there is in the
movie. Yeah, and we can say

1480
01:44:51.279 --> 01:44:58.880
that by and also say there's pretty
much no like like blood in the movie.

1481
01:44:59.119 --> 01:45:01.880
Really like Laurence Fishburne's getting beaten and
has some cuts on his face and

1482
01:45:01.920 --> 01:45:05.760
like, but like when when they
shoot the agent and when Trinity shoots the

1483
01:45:05.800 --> 01:45:10.159
agent, it's not like there's blood
spray or anything like that. So it's

1484
01:45:10.199 --> 01:45:16.359
it's very video game cartoonish kind of
violence. But truly in the siege on

1485
01:45:16.399 --> 01:45:21.439
the skyscraper up until they rescue Morpheus. The number of bullets that are fired

1486
01:45:21.439 --> 01:45:28.119
in this movie is ludicrous, and
and if anyone is sensitive to that,

1487
01:45:28.920 --> 01:45:33.600
I think would be triggering. I
think it's it's fair to say. But

1488
01:45:33.720 --> 01:45:40.319
other than that, I think it
actually ages quite well overall, and I

1489
01:45:40.319 --> 01:45:43.680
think it's really interesting, and I
think it's better. It's better than I

1490
01:45:43.720 --> 01:45:46.319
remembered it being because it makes more
sense. It all makes sense to me

1491
01:45:46.359 --> 01:45:50.800
now. I now quite confident I
can explain the matrix to people. Except

1492
01:45:50.840 --> 01:45:54.640
for that one thing about Agent Smith
hating it that one doesn't and whatever the

1493
01:45:55.159 --> 01:46:00.279
neo that is beyond us. I'm
gonna give it. I'm gonna give it

1494
01:46:00.319 --> 01:46:03.640
an eight good. I'm going to
give it an eight out of ten.

1495
01:46:04.600 --> 01:46:10.479
I know, Kung Food, how
about you. I'm gonna be a little

1496
01:46:10.479 --> 01:46:16.239
harder on the gun violence shocking than
you were. I think I genuinely didn't

1497
01:46:16.279 --> 01:46:19.600
notice the fact that it doesn't pass
the Bechdel test until after until you said

1498
01:46:19.600 --> 01:46:23.239
it, and I'm like, fuck, that really sucks. But there are

1499
01:46:23.239 --> 01:46:28.000
some very good female characters in the
film, and in terms of diversity,

1500
01:46:28.000 --> 01:46:30.439
it's one of the best movies we've
ever covered. Like, yeah, absolutely

1501
01:46:30.560 --> 01:46:35.479
looks like what the world looks like
except that everyone's a super hot computer programmer.

1502
01:46:38.079 --> 01:46:44.680
But the gun violence is I actually, this is what it's gonna sound

1503
01:46:44.720 --> 01:46:48.119
weird to you. I would have
preferred if there had been blood splatter and

1504
01:46:48.199 --> 01:46:53.159
there had been viscera because the gun
violence, that, this kind of gun

1505
01:46:53.239 --> 01:46:58.159
violence kind of gets under my skin
because it is so it kind of disengages

1506
01:46:58.520 --> 01:47:02.800
guns actual violence and makes it seem
like the world is a video game.

1507
01:47:03.760 --> 01:47:08.399
Look, movies are not responsible for
society, of course, whether or not

1508
01:47:08.439 --> 01:47:12.760
how how children or even adults choose
to interpret the images they see is not

1509
01:47:12.840 --> 01:47:16.520
on the filmmaker at all. But
it does still kind of like it makes

1510
01:47:16.640 --> 01:47:21.479
me feel really disengaged to the story
because all I can think about is that.

1511
01:47:23.000 --> 01:47:27.119
And also I question, I question
whether or not that's a that's a

1512
01:47:27.720 --> 01:47:31.920
good for society when when gun violence
is so taken out of the realm of

1513
01:47:32.560 --> 01:47:39.079
reality and is turned into like a
ballet essentially, get that. And most

1514
01:47:39.079 --> 01:47:41.720
times it doesn't bother me. And
we've discussed this many times. I love

1515
01:47:41.800 --> 01:47:45.239
violence. I actually enjoy violence in
movies. I think it's a there's a

1516
01:47:45.359 --> 01:47:48.439
there's a cathartic experience with violence that
you get it elevates things, it makes

1517
01:47:48.479 --> 01:47:53.159
things operatic, but I think there
still has to be like some level of

1518
01:47:53.199 --> 01:47:58.000
consequence Otherwise eight it gets boring because
there's no stakes to the film. Which

1519
01:47:58.039 --> 01:48:00.119
I'm not saying that's what happens in
this one, but it can get boring.

1520
01:48:01.079 --> 01:48:04.800
And b it does that thing where
it sort of like desensitizes you so

1521
01:48:05.159 --> 01:48:11.960
much to gun violence that may not
be a net positive on society. Yeah,

1522
01:48:11.960 --> 01:48:14.520
it's a hard one to judge.
Man, I love this movie.

1523
01:48:14.520 --> 01:48:17.920
I've really enjoyed watching it. You
gave it an eight, I did.

1524
01:48:18.279 --> 01:48:21.119
I'm going to give it a seven, Okay, I'm gonna give a seven

1525
01:48:21.199 --> 01:48:28.159
out of ten. All I know
Kung Fus. It is in a way

1526
01:48:28.319 --> 01:48:31.520
us who has aged poorly and not
the film. Sure, and that's it's

1527
01:48:31.560 --> 01:48:34.600
not the film's fault, but I
do want to acknowledge that this was a

1528
01:48:34.680 --> 01:48:40.199
moment in his Like this, this
movie has an outsized responsibility to society that

1529
01:48:40.279 --> 01:48:44.119
it does not deserve but it is. But it does have because it is

1530
01:48:44.159 --> 01:48:47.560
the matrix. It is one of
those movies that changed cinema. I'm not

1531
01:48:47.640 --> 01:48:53.199
offering a palate cleanser because A I
think everyone's seen this movie already, We've

1532
01:48:53.199 --> 01:48:56.760
been hard pressed to find a listener
who's never seen this movie. My mom

1533
01:48:56.800 --> 01:48:59.439
has not seen it, and I
suspect she will continue to not see it

1534
01:48:59.479 --> 01:49:01.600
after this. Oh fair enough.
My mother is not a listener, but

1535
01:49:01.640 --> 01:49:06.680
I bet she hasn't seen this all
right, So if you are listening,

1536
01:49:06.720 --> 01:49:10.600
you can follow us on the social
media's. We're on Instagram, We're on

1537
01:49:10.640 --> 01:49:14.079
Twitter, we're on threads. We
have a tea public shop. Uh.

1538
01:49:14.159 --> 01:49:16.920
If you're a Spotify user, you
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1539
01:49:16.920 --> 01:49:19.479
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1540
01:49:19.520 --> 01:49:24.800
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1541
01:49:24.800 --> 01:49:28.479
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1542
01:49:28.640 --> 01:49:30.079
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1543
01:49:30.239 --> 01:49:35.159
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1544
01:49:35.239 --> 01:49:40.960
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1545
01:49:42.560 --> 01:49:47.199
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1546
01:49:47.720 --> 01:49:51.479
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1547
01:49:51.520 --> 01:49:55.000
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1548
01:49:55.000 --> 01:49:58.840
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1549
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1550
01:50:01.760 --> 01:50:05.840
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1551
01:50:06.319 --> 01:50:11.880
Speaking of the Patreon, some tears
on it come with thanks from a podcast

1552
01:50:11.960 --> 01:50:15.199
character. Today we are hearing from
the Mistress of murder, the Duchess of

1553
01:50:15.279 --> 01:50:21.920
deception, Missus White from clue Well
Well, Well, here we are again

1554
01:50:23.439 --> 01:50:28.039
more of your fun little games.
I got your note and all the accusations

1555
01:50:28.039 --> 01:50:33.079
therein, so I'm here once again
to prove my innocence. I'm so sorry,

1556
01:50:33.079 --> 01:50:35.840
Missus White. I think there may
be some confusion. We weren't accusing

1557
01:50:35.880 --> 01:50:40.680
you of anything. Oh, of
course, not you writing that. You're

1558
01:50:41.079 --> 01:50:47.800
positively gagging to have me thank Parker
for being a patron. Had absolutely nothing

1559
01:50:47.880 --> 01:50:54.600
to do with my ninth husband,
park Parker, expiring in a tragic ballgag

1560
01:50:54.640 --> 01:51:00.880
incident. Your ninth husband's name was
park Parker. Of course, park Parker

1561
01:51:00.239 --> 01:51:05.319
was the sole heir to the Scotch
Bright Sponge fortune. Oh well, I'm

1562
01:51:05.359 --> 01:51:09.479
so sorry. I had no idea
he died that way. Well, I

1563
01:51:09.560 --> 01:51:12.720
find that hard to believe, since
all you would need to do is a

1564
01:51:12.760 --> 01:51:17.840
simple search for local millionaire found dead
with lifelike dildo in his mouth. I've

1565
01:51:17.840 --> 01:51:21.520
heard your podcast. You expect me
to believe you don't have a Google alert

1566
01:51:21.760 --> 01:51:27.279
for life like dildo. Missus White, I think I'm confused. Your husband

1567
01:51:27.319 --> 01:51:30.000
had a life like dildo in his
mouth. But first you said it was

1568
01:51:30.039 --> 01:51:34.319
a ballgag incident. Correct on all
counts. In any case, I'm here

1569
01:51:34.560 --> 01:51:40.079
and I shall discharge my responsibility to
be certain you can slay no more mud

1570
01:51:40.359 --> 01:51:45.239
in my good name. Thank you
Parker for being a patron of that aged

1571
01:51:45.239 --> 01:51:50.039
well. Always remember another day,
another husband, and she's gone in the

1572
01:51:50.079 --> 01:51:55.800
mist. She almost she just disappears, she fades away. What a gorgeous

1573
01:51:55.800 --> 01:52:00.920
black dress, though she really,
she really does have style for a murderous

1574
01:52:00.119 --> 01:52:04.319
for someone who should be on the
FBI's most Wanted list. Enough husbands wind

1575
01:52:04.399 --> 01:52:08.359
up dead, you think it should
just be noticed? Right? You know

1576
01:52:08.439 --> 01:52:14.279
what some husbands are like? Cleanex
soft, strong and disposable. All right,

1577
01:52:14.399 --> 01:52:16.760
Erica, any final thoughts on the
matrix? I think we both know

1578
01:52:16.800 --> 01:52:20.239
what I'm gonna say, Paul,
is it going to be jiu jitsu.

1579
01:52:21.119 --> 01:52:26.319
I'm gonna learn jujitsu. No.
I was going to talk more about watching

1580
01:52:26.399 --> 01:52:29.880
that woman give birth, but you
know what, if it feels wrong,

1581
01:52:29.920 --> 01:52:42.399
now never mind, never mind.
In the club, Trinity approaches Neil Neil,

1582
01:52:42.479 --> 01:52:48.840
I keep Neil. Neil makes it
way less cool. Most cool name

1583
01:52:48.880 --> 01:52:59.760
that it might be Neil. I
had a crushing a guy named Neil once.

1584
01:52:59.920 --> 01:53:01.159
I have a very good friend named
Neil. He's a lovely person.

1585
01:53:01.479 --> 01:53:04.159
Yeah, but still, Neil.
Neil is a pretty lame name. Sorry,

1586
01:53:04.199 --> 01:53:09.359
Neils. Yeah, Neil's everywhere.
We love you, but sorry,

1587
01:53:09.399 --> 01:53:12.119
man, it's enough hill climb,
It's that meal