Top 100 Movies you must Watch... 19- The Matrix

1999 Film

8.7/10-IMDb

87%-Rotten Tomatoes

Release date: March 31, 1999 (USA)

Directors: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski

Screenplay: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski

Sequels: The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions

Description

Thomas Anderson is a computer programmer who maintains a double life as the hacker "Neo". Infamous hacker Trinity contacts Neo and informs him that a man named Morpheus can tell him the meaning of the "Matrix", a cryptic phrase he has uncovered; however, three dark-suited Agents, led by Agent Smith, arrest Neo to prevent this. Evading surveillance, Neo meets with Morpheus, who warns that he can be shown the Matrix but will be unable to 'go back'. Neo accepts by choosing an offered red pill; his reality soon disintegrates and he abruptly wakes, naked and weak, in a liquid-filled vessel, to find he is one of billions of people connected by cables to an elaborate electrical system. He is rescued by Morpheus and brought aboard a levitating ship, the Nebuchadnezzar.

Morpheus tells Neo that he is from Zion, the last free human refuge. He explains that in reality, there had been a war in which humans lost to intelligent machines in which humans attacked the machines' access to solar energy and the machines responded by artificially harvesting and connecting humans from birth to a simulation of the 1999 world, called "the Matrix", in order to use their bioelectricity as a substitute power source. Morpheus and his crew are one of several who "unplug" enslaved humans and recruit them as rebels. They can hack into the Matrix to re-enter its simulated reality, where their understanding of its true nature allows them to manipulate the simulation's physical laws, granting them seemingly superhuman abilities, but the simulation protects itself from threats using human-like powerful sentient programs known as "Agents", and he learns that fatal injuries within the Matrix will manifest as death of the physical body. Neo proves highly skilled during virtual combat training. Morpheus believes Neo is "the One", a man prophesied to end the war between humans and machines.

The group enters the Matrix to visit the Oracle, a prophet who predicted the emergence of the One. The Oracle implies to Neo that he is not the One, and warns he will soon have to choose between his own life and that of Morpheus. Still within the Matrix, the group are ambushed by Agents and tactical police, and Morpheus allows himself to be captured to let Neo and the rest of the crew escape. Their departure from the simulated world is hindered by Cypher, a crew member disillusioned with the harshness of the real world, who had secretly betrayed them to the Agents in exchange for a return to comfortable life within the Matrix. Cypher murders several of the group whose real bodies lie defenseless in the ship, before he is himself killed by the brother of one of them. In the Matrix, the Agents interrogate Morpheus to learn his access codes to Zion's main computer.

Neo returns to the Matrix with Trinity to rescue Morpheus; in the process, Neo gains confidence in his ability to manipulate the Matrix, performing physical feats on a par with the Agents. Morpheus tells Neo that the Oracle had told him what he needed to hear. Morpheus and Trinity exit the Matrix, but Smith ambushes and kills Neo before he can leave. Outside the Matrix, "sentinel" machines converge on the Nebuchadnezzar. Trinity, standing over Neo in the real world, whispers to Neo that the Oracle told her she would fall in love with the One. She kisses Neo, and he revives in the Matrix. His ability to perceive and control the Matrix reaches a new height, and he effortlessly destroys Smith before exiting the Matrix in time for the ship's electromagnetic pulse weapon to destroy the attacking sentinels. A final scene shows Neo making a telephone call in the Matrix, promising the Machines he will show their prisoners "a world where anything is possible".

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Top 100 Movies you must Watch... 10- Fight Club

1999 Film

8.9/10-IMDb

81%-Rotten Tomatoes

Release date: October 15, 1999 (USA)

Director: David Fincher

Screenplay: Jim Uhls

Story by: Chuck Palahniuk

Description

Edward Norton plays the unnamed narrator, Helena Bonham Carter plays Marla Singer, and Brad Pitt plays Tyler Durden.

The unnamed narrator is a travelling automobile company employee who suffers from insomnia. His doctor refuses to give him medication and advises him to visit a support group to witness more severe suffering. The narrator attends a support group for testicular cancer victims and, after fooling them into thinking that he is a fellow victim, finds an emotional release that relieves his insomnia. He becomes addicted to attending support groups and pretending to be a victim, but the presence of another impostor, Marla Singer, disturbs him, so he negotiates with her to avoid their meeting at the same groups.

After a flight home from a business trip, the narrator finds his apartment destroyed by an explosion. He calls Tyler Durden, a soap salesman whom he befriended on the flight, and they meet at a bar. A conversation about consumerismleads to Tyler inviting the narrator to stay at his place; outside the bar he requests that the narrator hit him. The two engage in a fistfight, and the narrator later moves into Tyler's dilapidated house. They have further fights outside the bar, and these attract a crowd of men. The fighting moves to the bar's basement where the men form a "fight club", a routine opportunity to fight recreationally.

Marla overdoses on pills and telephones the narrator for help; he ignores her, but Tyler answers the call and saves her. Tyler and Marla become sexually involved, and Tyler warns the narrator never to talk to Marla about him. More fight clubs form across the country, and under Tyler's leadership, they become the anti-materialist and anti-corporate organization called "Project Mayhem". The narrator complains to Tyler that he wants to be more involved in the organization, but Tyler suddenly disappears. When a member of Project Mayhem is killed by the police during a botched sabotage operation, the narrator tries to shut down the project, and follows evidence of Tyler's national travels to track him down. In one city, a Project member greets the narrator as Tyler Durden. The narrator calls Marla from his hotel room and discovers that Marla also believes him to be Tyler. He suddenly sees Tyler in his room, and Tyler explains that they are dissociated personalities in the same body. When the narrator has believed himself to be asleep, Tyler has in fact been controlling his body.

The narrator blacks out after the conversation. When he wakes, he discovers from his telephone log that Tyler made calls during his blackout. He uncovers Tyler's plans to erase debt by destroying buildings that contain credit card companies' records. The narrator tries to contact the police but finds that the officers are members of the Project. He attempts to disarm explosives in a building, but Tyler subdues him and moves to a safe building to watch the destruction. The narrator, held by Tyler at gunpoint, realizes that in sharing the same body with Tyler, he himself is actually holding the gun. He fires it into his mouth, shooting through the cheek without killing himself. Tyler collapses with an exit wound to the back of his head, and the narrator stops mentally projecting him. Afterward, Project Mayhem members bring a kidnapped Marla to him, believing him to be Tyler, and leave them alone. The explosives detonate, collapsing the buildings, and the narrator and Marla watch the scene, holding hands.

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