![]() ![]() The Animatrix: MatriculatedĪnother animated short without clear placement on the Matrix timeline, "Matriculated" follows a separate group of human rebels different from the ones we know from Zion. The Matrix Revolutions picks up immediately after The Matrix Reloaded ends - concluding the trilogy of feature films and portraying Neo’s ultimate sacrifice and attempt to make peace with the machines. Given that it is a story about rebels testing their crew's loyalty to the cause, it is likely that "Program" is set after The Matrix and before The Matrix Revolutions. "Program" is a stunningly animated short that revolves around simulated training set in a Samurai-like training program. The story is set in an unspecified time in The Matrix canon, though presumably in the previous version of the Matrix given the presence of the Agents. Unlike Kid, Dan only self-actuallizes for a moment, at the pinnacle of his race, before he crashes back into the Matrix. Similar to "The Kid’s Story," "World Record" features a man named Dan who momentarily breaks out of the Matrix due to the strength of his physical willpower. It follows a young girl named Yoko and some local kids who discover a “haunted house” that is filled with curious anomalies that we know to be glitches in the Matrix. "Beyond" occurs sometime during the events of the trilogy given the existence of the previous version of the Matrix. It picks up right after the "Final Flight of the Osiris" short. The Matrix Reloaded occurs six months after the events of The Matrix and follows the love story between Neo and Trinity, as Neo discovers the cyclical nature and creation of the Matrix. "The Kid” featured in this gritty animated story is a character seen in the second installment of the film trilogy - a young boy who breaks out of the Matrix and saves himself by sheer willpower alone, self-actualizing as no one has before him - and his story takes place within the six-month gap of time between the events of The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded. However, seeing as the Matrix has already gone through six cycles, the real year the movie is set could be far more distant than that. The Matrix is the 1999 film that introduces audiences to Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus, as they fight machines of the real world and agents of the Matrix, somewhere around the (estimated) year 2199 according to the human rebels. "A Detective Story" mixes anime and classic film noir while following Detective Ash in his pursuit within the Matrix of the ever-elusive internet hacker known as Trinity, sometime after the creation of the Matrix and before she joins forces with Morpheus. The story takes place circa 2090, and it includes the creation of artificial intelligence and the events of the war of the machines. It tells how humans became enslaved by the machine-created Matrix and turned into batteries. ![]() ![]() Part I and Part II of "The Second Renaissance" tell the origin story of the rise of the machines and the downfall of man. The Animatrix: The Second Renaissance, Part I and II And, although a couple of The Animatrix stories take place before the events of the first Matrix film, we suggest watching The Matrix before diving into The Animatrix in order to fully understand and appreciate the short stories. While the collection of animated short films are housed within the anthology, the individual shorts take place at various points along the Matrix timeline. With four of the nine shorts written by the Wachowskis themselves, The Animatrix is considered Matrix canon. The franchise also includes an anthology of animated short films released in the middle of the trilogy, titled The Animatrix (June 2003). The Matrix was followed by two more feature films, The Matrix Reloaded (May 2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (November 2003), and then after a 20-year break, Lana Wachowski returned to the franchise to create The Matrix Resurrections(December 2021). The Wachowski Sisters introduced the now well-known redpill/bluepill metaphor for interpreting the world and asked viewers to consider the similarities of our own reality to that of a computer simulation. Aside from looking cool, they were also working to free humanity from the grips of a machine-controlled Matrix. The Matrix hit theaters in 1999 and dazzled audiences with a leather-clad and gravity-defying Keanu Reeves, as he, along with Carrie-Anne Moss and Laurence Fishburne, fought against artificial agents of a programmed reality with their stylized kung-fu and black leather outfits.
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