The Matrix

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The Matrix is a movie from 1999 which has Keanu Reeves in it.

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Keanu Reeves plays a man who works at a computer company. At night, he talks to his friends on the internet. On the internet he calls himself "Neo". One night, a person he does not know hacks into his computer and sends him a message, telling Neo to "follow the white rabbit." A few minutes later, a girl with a white rabbit marking on her shoulder appears at Neo's door. Neo follows the girl. The girl leads him to a club. He meets the person who sent him the message. She is a woman named Trinity. She says that she wants to tell him a secret.

When Neo goes to work the next day, he gets a package with a cell phone in it. One of Trinity's friends, Morpheus, calls Neo on the phone as soon as he opens the package. He warns Neo that a group of men in plain black suits are coming to find and arrest him. Morpheus tells Neo to escape the building through a window. But Neo does not trust Morpheus. So the men in suits catch him. They take him away and ask him questions. But also they do strange things to him. They close his mouth so he cannot speak. Then they put an insect inside his stomach.

When the men let him go, Neo's friend Trinity comes and gets him. She uses a machine to kill the insect in his stomach, which she says was used by the men to figure out where they were. Then she takes him to meet Morpheus. Morpheus asks him if he wants to know the secret. Neo says yes. Morpheus gives Neo a pill and then connects him to a machine.

Suddenly Neo wakes up in a tank of water. There are wires in his head and arms. When he gets up, the wires pull out. It hurts him badly. He looks around and he cannot see any people or buildings. All he can see is more water tanks. He escapes from the tank he is in. Then a ship comes and picks him up.

On the ship Neo finds his friends again. They tell him the secret. The Earth was not real. None of the cities or houses were real. Everything was a computer program. In the real world, the computers have taken over the Earth. They sent robots to capture all the humans. But they needed the humans to generate power. So they keep humans in the water tanks. They can extract power from their bodies. They use a computer program to make the humans think they are in the ordinary world. The program is called the Matrix. The wires in Neo's head and arms were sending the program to him, so he could interact with other humans and his surroundings.

The men in suits that Neo saw were not real people. They are part of the program too, and are called "Agents". The three that Neo met were Agent Smith (who is in charge of all agents in the Matrix), Agent Brown, and Agent Jones. They try to catch anyone who might hurt the computers. They found out that Neo was about to learn the secret. That is why they went after him. They made his mouth disappear by changing the computer program. Morpheus says since Neo knows the secret, Neo can learn to change the program too.

Neo is hurt. Morpheus and his friends take him to a hospital inside the ship. They help him get better. Then they help him learn to change the computer program. He learns how to change the program to make him strong and fast. It is hard. His mind still thinks that the program is real. Neo learns how to change the program. Soon he is able to jump between buildings and run along walls and dodge bullets.

Morpheus has heard a story. It is about a man called "the One". "The One" is a man who would be able to save humans from the computers. He thinks that Neo might be "the One". That is why he found Neo. Morpheus takes Neo to see a wise woman. She is called the Oracle. She says that Neo is not "the One". Neo is upset, but tries to help his friends anyway.

One of Neo's friends was called Cypher. All of Neo's friends had trusted him. But he was not their friend. He was working for the agents. He kills some of Neo's friends. But one of them, Tank, manages to stop him before killing either Neo or Trinity.

Soon after, the agents capture Morpheus. Neo and Trinity go to rescue him. The agents fight back. They change the computer program. They send an army to kill both of them, but, instead, they kill the entire army by bending the Matrix. Then the two go up to the roof of the building where the agents are. Agent Jones bends the program and appears on top of the roof. He takes out a gun and shoots Neo. But Neo, after his training with Morpheus, is able to bend back and doge all of the bullets. Trinity then shoots Jones, who manages to disappear before the bullet kills him. Then, Neo and Trinity take a helicopter and fly down into the room where the agents are keeping Morpheus. Morpheus breaks his chains, and runs into the helicopter. The agents disappear from the room, but not before one of them shoots the helicopter. The helicopter crashes into a building, but all three in the helicopter jump out.

Morpheus and Trinity exit the Matrix by answering a phone call from one of their friends, from a phone booth in a subway station. Before Neo can exit the Matrix, Agent Smith appears in the subway station and destroys the telephone. Neo fights the agent. The agent, much more powerful, kicks Neo down onto the subway tracks. A train is coming. The agent sees Neo struggling to get up, so he jumps down onto the tracks as well, and begins choking Neo, hoping to disappear before the train comes. However, Neo manages to escape the agent's grasp and make the train run the agent over. Agent Smith from the train unharmed, and Brown & Jones join him. Smith shoots Neo, and kills him.

Trinity is very sad. She loved Neo. Trinity says that she went to see the Oracle too. The Oracle said that Trinity would love a man. The man Trinity loved would be "the One." Trinity kisses Neo while he is dead. But Neo is not really dead. Neo stands up again. He realises that he is "the One". The Oracle lied to him. The Oracle wanted Neo to know without the Oracle's help. Neo looks at the agents. The agents shoot at him. But Neo can see the parts of the computer program. He can tell that nothing is real. Now he knows how to change everything. He can do it better than his friends. Neo does not dodge the bullets. He changes the program so that the bullets stop flying. Then he kills Agent Smith. Nobody had killed an agent before. For the first time since they were created, Agent Brown and Agent Jones know human fear. As Neo stares at the two remaining agents, the same thought comes to mind — run.

Now Neo and his friends are fighting against the agents. They want to free the humans from the computer. Now that they have "the One" they think that they can win.