Analysis of the Matrix

The Matrix 

The film begins with the Warner Bros logo, it then goes on to show the title of the film The Matrix, after this it immediately moves on into the film where it starts showing a computer screen with some text on saying the date and time, the narration over this section is a phone call between two people, this is used well as an enigma as it hooks you and makes you want to find out who the two people are and why is it set in this computer form of numbers. After the phone call it then moves onto zooming closely into some digital numbers and as it zooms it adds a spacey sound effect instantly a bright light begins to get bigger and bigger until it then zooms out again to show a policeman with his torch, this makes the viewer wonder what is going on as it went from a phone call to a policeman, another enigma which makes the viewer want to watch on further. As the shot goes further on an eerie tune begins to play up until the moment when the police kick down the door and see the women sat in the chair, as she slowly raises her arms the music gets louder and louder until it suddenly stops and the scene cuts to a tracking shot of the camera moving from the top of the building to the bottom, as the camera reaches the bottom the camera then cuts to a car pulling up with two men in black suits getting out, this adds mystery to the scene as there is no information given on who any of the characters are and they look a bit overdressed for the background. The camera then skips back to the women in the room who is now surrounded by police and it would seem she is going to be arrested, the camera quickly zooms back to the men in suits this builds tension as the camera keeps skipping between characters, as soon as one of the men says “your men are already dead” the camera then skips back to the women who then wows everyone by breaking the laws of gravity and floats in mid air whilst kicking one of the police officers, immediately the genre is set and the audience begins to realise that this is fiction film. The women then goes onto fighting the other officers and being chased by one of the men in suits, the tension builds as they run across the rooftops with police officers trailing behind then as the tension reaches the critical point the women leaps across a whole street landing on the building across the other side, this wows the audience again and defies the laws of gravity, the man in the suit then does the same thing as the women and adds more mystery and is an excellent enigma. Once on the building she quickly scrambles behind a wall this gives you the image that she does not want to be caught by this man, she stares blankly at a window on a near building she waits her chance and the action music begins as she runs and dives through a tiny window, as she is heading for the window in mid-air the audience will be thinking that it will be impossible for her to get through it. She smashes through the window and rolls down a set of stairs as she hits the bottom she draws her weapons and aims them up the stairs ready for the man in the suit to come through, the tension builds and you begin to think he is going to come through the window, she then gets up and runs out of the building, the audience become confused in this scene as she runs towards a phone box, the camera cuts towards a truck which somehow is being controlled by the man in the suit, the truck storms towards the phone box, this is great for tension as it puts the audience on the edge of their seat and wonder whether she is going to be killed. The truck smashes through the phone box which in theory would kill the women instantly, the man in the suit then gets out of the truck and check on the phone box, as if by magic the women has disappeared whether she is alive or dead we do not know, this is a great enigma as this is the ending of the beginning scene and this makes the viewer want to watch on to find out who the women is why the police where after her, who the man was why was he wearing a suit, how they done all the magic jumps and floating, and the main thing whether she survived the truck crash or not.