Our first time watching THE MATRIX (1999) blind movie reaction!

[@mentallygonereacts]

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[@Muckylittleme]

Good to see an intelligent reaction to this movie by independent critical thinkers who understand our reality is constantly being defined and manipulated by those who wield power, not so easy to find these days. What makes humans so different is not just our basic intelligence, but our ability to imagine and invent, our deeper consciousness, and to make choices in the knowledge that those choices affect the world around us for better or worse. But where does that consciousness actually come from and what is the filter that has us consider one thing good and another evil - where does the idea of spirituality and higher plane of consciousness come from and most profound of all, where does free will come from given a causal Universe bound by the laws of physics must be deterministic? Clearly consciousness must have always existed, it must have been innate in the birth of the Universe, since the genesis of all things that can ever be were logically created in that moment and so it is more correct to say that humanity came from consciousness rather than consciousness comes from humanity but given our thoughts are physical electrochemical reactions they too must be bound by the laws of physics and have been seeded at the start of the Universe. As a thought experiment consider where your last thought came from. It will of course be directly related to being asked that question and in this way so each thought is in someway related to the previous. So what is our first thought and where does it come from? It is not from stimuli of the senses as we have thoughts in the womb, we know late term babies dream. And does that thought determine the rest of our lives given every thought thereafter is triggered by the last? Well, there are other people who interact with us and create new paths of thought, but their thought was in the same way triggered by their last thought or interaction and so on. Free will must either be an illusion or there must be a force that operates outside the laws of physics that allows for it. And if we do have free will then the filter we use to discern must fit the description of a soul. People who proudly proclaim themselves atheists are proudly announcing they do not believe they have free will which paradoxically makes their proclamation irrelevant.

[@WakeUpEternals]

I don't know if you are ready or not. But here it is. We are inside a matrix system. But it's not like this movie. We are consciousness. We build realities, and then we go play in them. To experience that, that we are not. To experience limitations\densities., feelings, emotions, and so on. But something went wrong. There's a conflict in creation. A distorted consciousness. And now you are all bound to the matrix system, unable to come home. So here are your options. 1 - If you want to gain access to the information you blocked and take control of this construct. You only need to let go of thoughts entirely and become fully self-aware. 2 - If you want to leave the Matrix and go home. You not only need to let go of thoughts. You also need to let go of emotions, feeling, needs, wants, and attachments. You need to let go of absolutely everything. As soon as you do, you will be instantly home. 3 - Ignore me entirely and go on believing whatever you want to believe All the best.

[@travisbickle1552]

The fact that you mentioned Andrew Tate so many times in your opening tells me you truly aren’t a “free thinker” and not so internally in tune as you think. You turn to conspiracy podcasts that confirm your preconceived opinions and think those that challenge your unfounded psychosis as being part of the Matrix. And we’re just lost needing to be set free. Free of all the lies being taught to us. Lol. Sounds a lot like religion right? And neo is Jesus? Nothing original about the story of the Matrix. Nor you conspiracy theorists trying to play prophet.

[@travisbickle1552]

The Matrix is basically the story of Christ being retold for Millenial morons who think they’re on to something new.

[@nicolbolas8758]

5:51 monitor behind her ( she meditating in darkness alone ) :D

[@4000mack]

I watched it in theaters in 1999 (18yo). It was beyond groundbreaking, it was unimaginable.

[@timgardner3681]

Oh, man, me too. I remember walking out of the theater into bright sunshine, overwhelmed. I swear I could feel the brain interface in the back of my head.

[@alejandrobarboza2004]

Damn you're old!!..like me...$1.00 theater for me

[@4000mack]

@@alejandrobarboza2004 😂

[@SWOLEX_1]

Same

[@prltqdf9]

My first time watching The Matrix was also in 1999. It was a bootleg version recorded with a camera in a movie theater. Video resolution was something like 360p and it had terrible audio quality but I was still completely mesmerized and blown away by it.

[@GrumpyOldGuyPlaysGames]

The scene with the boy and the spoon is the giveaway for the entire Matrix. There is no spoon. Not really. The Matrix was merely making him believe there was a spoon there. So if he knows the spoon is fake, he can do anything with it. Bend it, twist it, fold it, whatever, because as the little kid said, he's not bending the spoon, he's accepting that the spoon isn't real and thus can be whatever he wants it to be.

[@pooman2]

Spoon

[@citizensunitednegatingtech9783]

You believe the air you're breathing is real, again. Was the first pointing it out to everyone the two places and one being based on bending and breaking rules.

[@danieltorres1839]

"There is no spoon," in this case, just means that, in a digital reality, the representation of a three-dimensional object is not a fixed solid form and malleable so the neuro-pixel units that comprise it may be manipulated by a mind that understands the digital dynamics of the Matrix, kind of like theosophists who believe the same about the quantum world and its subatomic particles that, in many ways, are more metaphysical in substance than physical in form. The Wachowski Brothers (Sisters now) are not political, especially not paranoid about "fake news."

[@crystalscolza1663]

It also ties in with the kiss scene at the end. Some people think it's cheesy that he was brought back to life with a kiss. But if you think about it, he wasn't shot in real life. And he could hear what she was saying, in real life through his ears. That he needed to wake up. So he overpowered what his brain was telling him in The matrix and restarted his own heart.

[@ciberzombiegaming8207]

@@crystalscolza1663 or just a lot of surrounding electronics and machinery being torn apart and short-circuting gave jolt to him. its not as lovely or mystical but more realistic reason. also Molag Bal on a stick! how much conspiracy theories in this video discusion like wtf i ended in when i clicked on film reaction.

[@nth_to_see_here]

"I'm gonna start dressing like Neo" - Yep, that's what we did in 1999 when I was in high school. Suddenly everybody started showing up in long, leather coats ;)

[@kevintipcorn6787]

That trend lasted a few weeks in 99 until the Columbine massacre trenchcoated goobers put a stop to it most places.

[@WheresWaldo05]

That's also what the columbine kids did too! Guess there are three peas to a pod afterall!

[@SamBorgman]

Yeah after that trench coats were seen as clothing for scary murderers.

[@bloodyneptune]

@WheresWaldo05 Thats what _everyone_ did, it was like, a cultural phenomenon. Super weird your mind immediately went to the only two people on the planet that killed people after getting hung up on the trend, and not the millions and millions of other people who did.

[@hafajulz]

What you guys have to keep in mind is that in 1999, these slow motion, 360 degree shots were never before done in Hollywood. This film introduced this style of cinematography and special effects to the entire world.

[@SamBorgman]

Man it’s such a shame that people watching the movie now don’t get how groundbreaking it was. And how every movie even now uses things invented by it. Dam shame. They have seen all these effects elsewhere already.

[@montgomeryfitzpatrick473]

Nah they stole it from Shrek

[@SG-js2qn]

Am I the only one who laughs when Cypher says, "I want to be someone important ... like an actor" ...?

[@edsonribeiro4829]

Exactly. His mind is so small for thinking like that. 😂

[@MonicaPamaska]

I always see him as the Captain from the Bad Boys movies 😊 "Did you hear what I said? I heard what I said, because I was there when I said it!" 😆

[@bronzewand]

"Rage Against The Machine - Wake up" dropping at the end while Neo flies towards the screen was the most hype moment I'd ever seen in a theatre

[@SamBorgman]

I’ve been saying that for 24 years and it’s still true.

[@DanYeLL2003]

It is truly hard to explain how much of a cultural impact this movie had. The visual effects, the story line, the clothes, most of pop culture today can trace back to this movie. Think about it, this movie came out before social media, before everybody had a cell phone in their hand, and before most people had a home computer. Most people thought in 1999 that the world was going to end(Y2K) and then this movie came out, Perfect timing.

[@grego3277]

Underrated comment

[@Tokerific1976]

"Follow the white rabbit" is a reference to Alice in Wonderland. That's also where the term 'falling down a rabbit hole' comes from.

[@Cuthbert903]

was coming here to say this before even getting past their intro.. like I know reactors go in blind, but how do you not know that these are originally from Alice in Wonderland and that the Matrix is specifically referencing that if you know those lines from the movie going in...

[@Cau_No]

Neo sitting in front of the mirror just before he goes "down the rabbit hole" is also a reference. "Through the Looking Glass" is the second book of Alice in Wonderland.

[@VanIyke]

@@Cuthbert903 there's so many other references: Virtual reality vs reality. Kansas goes bye bye, Dorothy referencing the wizard of Oz as a metaphor. Biblical references like that the only thing as strong as death is love (when Neo dies and is resurrected). And for those who were here in the early 80's they'll remember the cereal commercial callback with 3 siblings, where the older two convince the youngest to try a cereal they thought he'd hate, and one ends up saying, "Mikey, I think he likes it!" which Tank says when feeding Neo those fight programs.

[@kylehopkins1180]

Poor Jenny was a abused girl searching for love. Abuse has long term effects on the abused.

[@kylehopkins1180]

If you want to try his shrimp, go to Bubba Gump shrimp restaurant. They are all over the country!

[@TenTonNuke]

The Matrix deals in such philosophical topics as existentialism and determinism, invoking Plato and Descartes, all somehow wrapped in an analogy of Christianity and sprinkled with elements of Buddhism. Andrew Tate, on the other hand, is like if Pitbull had an inbred child with a severe case of Down syndrome who was homeschooled by conspiracy theorists and then ingested copious amounts of bleach. The two things don't belong in the same paragraph together.

[@BobLeach_DarkWolf]

Agreed. Tate is awful.

[@delbomb3131]

Origin of the the figurative rabbit hole is from Alice in wonderland.

[@Mr--H]

You know Q right?

[@benjaminroe311ify]

I am a simple man. I see a reaction to the Matrix and I click and watch. It's such a good movie and great to see reactors see it for first time. Nice outfits guys.

[@citizensunitednegatingtech9783]

They know the answer to the JP question, how much do clothes cost in the matrix

[@dabreal82]

You are a simple man. Bc you're still making the same comment people have been making since the dawn of youtube...

[@λιμινιλ]

I’ve been watching them all week. Such a treat!

[@tonydigital6017]

It’s so funny to see how much you two are REACHING. Hahaha!

[@AlphaLimaXray]

All over a story that is, essentially, a parable about gender identity.

[@snakebite6x6x6]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@dall1786]

The marketing campaign for this movie when it was released was unbelievable. They never gave anything away and it just made you want to go to the movie just to see what the matrix was.

[@Ray.Norrish]

The scene where Trinity hits the glass after exiting the chopper was absolutely ridiculous in cinemas. Still makes my hair stand on end remembering it

[@astranoel895]

Great reaction! I was really impressed with the amount of symbolism you picked up on first time around and your observations of things---some of which I myself never noticed and I've been looking at this movie since I saw it originally in theatres. Trust me, this is one movie you NEED to see in the cinema. The experience is amazing and totally sucks you in! And everyone legit came out and looked around at the world and wondered if it was real.

[@NoriMori1992]

19:57 Huh? A shield from what? 20:51 I think you're forgetting that The Matrix and the real world are separate environments 😂 People inside the Matrix don't see things outside of it. 25:37 He's not thinking that long-term. This isn't about crippling the Resistance, he just wants back into the Matrix. 26:56 They're pince-nez. They're attached to his nose. 34:44 No, she said he'd have to choose between his life and Morpheus's life. 35:22 It's just an expression, y'all! And Oracle didn't say there's an afterlife. 41:27 I saw a theory, which makes a lot of sense, that in this scene Trinity waited so long because the Oracle told her to. (Obviously not telling her why.) 44:39 No, he said you can empty a clip on them and hit nothing but air. You see this during the rooftop fight. Bullets can still hurt them, it's just nearly impossible to hit them in the first place. 47:42 No, he's talking to the Machines.

[@roberthodson8645]

You cannot claim to be a Keanu Reeves fan until you've watched bill and Ted's excellent adventure

[@StinsonSwarley]

And Little Buddha

[@thomasruwart1722]

Most Excellent comment!

[@scottlaughlin9897]

Lmao when she said ignorance is bliss. Cyphers line when dealing with the agent to get put back in the Matrix.

[@craigclass]

Trinity and Neo room numbers match their characters: Trinity is first discovered by agents while she's in room 303, which seems fitting, given that her name means a group of three. Neo, who later discovers that he is "The One," lives in room 101 - continuing the trend of fitting room numbers.

[@WarriorPoet01]

23:47. “I can only show you the door. You have to walk through it.” Throughout the movie - rooms 101, 303,…… I never got that until just now. Amazing how many dozens of times I’ve watched the movie, and little things can still pop out. Amazing writing.

[@willcool713]

Chasing the rabbit, specifically the White Rabbit, and "going down the rabbit hole," are references to Through the Looking Glass, the Alice in Wonderland story by Lewis Carroll. It is widely considered a psychonautical/psychedelic story of awakening and enlightenment.

[@magusmelanie828]

Better to chase a white rabbit than a white dragon

[@Animeabe]

First time watching you two. Great commentary on the symbolism. I really encourage you to watch the next two. They are one continuous story and all really good. My fav is 2 personally. I'll check out some of your other stuff too.

[@ghostmkc4045]

The Matrix is arguably the best film ever created. Its one of the few perfect films that made a huge impact on society.

[@ai10oz]

There is no relevancy with Andrew Tate's version of the Matrix and what this film is trying to convey us. They are both different. Andrew Tate's version is misleading one. Loved your reaction. Waiting for rest of the three movie reactions from you people.

[@Californyuhh]

Andrew Tate does a disservice to this movie by using it in his analogies. Tate is very much part of the matrix. He’s just another form of control and fails to understand the true philosophies that ground the film.

[@eschatological]

The weird co-opting of this film by the rightwing and MRA types, to the point of claiming "redpilling" is analgous to their political awakening, is really bizarre.

[@proosee]

I was also a bit put off this true love kiss, but fans say it was just a signal for his mind to acknowledge that his body is still alive in real world, so it still holds with trivia. There is also the question whether "the real world" is truly real or just another simulation for cover up (there are some hints of that in sequels). What I love the most is that Oracle never said that Neo is not The One - he said him himself. Also, she told him he's probably waiting for another life, which actually happened. But the ingenuity of this script is that it's almost impossible to catch it when you watch it for the first time, you need to rewatch this scene.

[@StimParavane]

It represents the death of the ego-self.

[@zablak689]

That is not because of the kiss...he wasn't the one before he died in the matrix...the oracle told him he wasn't the one...he needed to die to become the one

[@navtektv]

what I've always found interesting and it's something I've never seen discussed about this movie is that Trinity doesn't say that the Oracle told her she will fall in love with the One. She says that the oracle told her that the person she would fall in love with would be the One. Different way of putting it in my opinion, meaning maybe Trinity is the person who makes the One and throughout the movie, the more she falls in love with him the more he becomes the One. Meaning in an alternate Matrix world, Trinity could have fallen in love with Cypher and then he would become the One. I mean we already know that by the end of Matrix Reloaded that the real world might just be another Matrix holding the Matrix that they broke Neo out of. Smith, a program being about to break into the 'real' world as well? Why can't a cookie idea of Trinitys love making the One become the one be a reality?

[@proosee]

@@navtektv I've just rewatched this scene and she actually said it both ways, so I'm still not convince, but it's an interesting idea nevertheless.

[@stephenhudson2032]

Great reaction. You picked up on a lot of concepts really fast. I will keep an eye out for more of your reactions.

[@kellifranklin9872]

You’re not alone! Lol I had a deep existential crisis in the theater when I watched it for the first time! Lol

[@StimParavane]

The Matrix is a Buddhist film. The Buddha is the Awakened One. You are living in an illusory world, called Samara, created by your own discriminating mind. We all need to wake up and realise Nirvana for ourselves.

[@DefenestrateYourself]

@@StimParavanenah it’s Plato’s Cave. Look it up

[@xeno-andrew]

18:40 Descartes(1591-1650), “if we are all just brains in a bucket, could you ever know?”

[@daywalkerp]

07:53"There is the main man... John Wick..." f*** I'm old

[@LeDedoubleur]

I was 20 when I saw this masterpiece in theaters, I never experienced that before !! Love it 💚

[@jamesmatthew1903]

You're editor is talented to remove the copyrighted audio without ruining the sound entirely. Impressive.

[@shawbros]

"You're editor" Your

[@inquisitive6786]

It wasnt true love’s kiss the thing that brought Neo back. Literally every reactor thinks this for some reason. Blows my mind. It was the stimulus from the real world that reminded him it was all fake inside the matrix. When Trinity kissed him Neo WASNT bleeding in the real world despite getting shot up in the matrix. Morpheus said “your mind makes it real” so if your mind DENIES that, you break the matrix. That’s what happened with Neo. Morpheus has been telling him to “believe” and to “know he can do this” the entire movie. The kid with the spoon is also a reference This also falls in line with Morpheus telling Neo “when you’re ready, you wont have to”(dodge bullets) All of it is “placebo” so to speak but the impossible task is believing REALITY is fake so your mind essentially thinks it dies despite not actually dying. The mind is fooled

[@ezhiq]

Yeh, but it's almost impossible to get all the references and ideas when watching The Matrix for the first time. Even now we don't know what would happen if she didn't kiss him, because Neo was already the chosen one (by the Matrix), but I guess they didn't have a choice after all, and I'll leave it here to avoid any spoilers :D

[@w3-watchingwithwombat79]

I love your explanation. For me, it was always that the Oracle's prophecy to Trinity had not yet come true--that she would love the One. But Trinity refused to acknowledge that until the end of the movie when he'd died. Also, the Oracle said to Neo that he seemed to be waiting for something, which meant to me that he was waiting for Trinity to love him--or realize that she loved him. Together, those two things made him the One. But I think I like your explanation more.

[@inquisitive6786]

@@w3-watchingwithwombat79 Oracle told him “you aint the one, not in THIS life.” Then Neo died. And now he’s the one. He may be waiting for something drastic to happen, maybe his death. Neo didnt know what the oracle told Trinity tho

[@WolfHreda]

The thing I love most about Andrew Tate's use of "The Matrix" and the kind of people who unironically call themselves "Redpilled" is that they all seem to forget these terms were coined by a pair of trans sisters discussing philosophies from books these guys would probably never read. One of which is Simulacra and Simulation by Baudrillard, the book Neo was hiding his illegal disks in. Morpheus' glasses are called Pince Nez glasses. They literally pinch onto the bridge of your nose.

[@eschatological]

TBF, their discussions only crystallize in the second and third movies, the antithesis and synthesis to these movies, and most people don't look that far into it. But they're spectacularly off-base.

[@Ripcraze]

Does it matter who first coined a term? I can point out some symbols that were coined by people thousands of years ago but then it's accepted in society as something else because of recent events. I think you're opinion on that wouldn't be consistent. It doesn't really matter who first came up with something if it is popularized as something else within the context of our current society.

[@eschatological]

@@Ripcraze Except in the case of "redpilled" the Andrew Tate losers are trying to suggest they mean the same thing as the Wachowskis - to wake up from a system of control. For the Wachowskis, the control was the authoritarian tendancies and cisheteronormativeness of society ("Switch" was supposed to be a male in one world, and female in the Matrix, but the studio nixed it) and related to their own journey. Andrew Tate and his ilk want to make it about being anti-government control generally - which if they watched the second and third films, the Wachowskis didn't have a problem with at all. The Wachowskis critique was not of government, but of lack of freedom. Zion is filled with government and "control", in fact, the second movie is a lot about how you can never truly be free of being controlled, but in accepting your freedom to depend on others you are free to be yourself.

[@eschatological]

@@RipcrazeYour argument applies to things like the swastika, a Hindu symbol of peace, which was reversed, both iconographically, and in meaning, by the Nazis.

[@stefanosm.2780]

Thnx for underlining that! It's so hypocritical that those guys use the matrix metaphor

[@krono5el]

This movie is an amalgam and inspired from all the 80s and 90s cyberpunk anime and Hong Kong action movies like john woo and wu ping. literally everything i loved growing up : D also really fun how after all this time its still blowing people minds : P

[@hugueslepeltier8931]

I watched it in Theater in 1999. Every body Was crazy about it.

[@dextercool]

Whoa! Did not expect this type of insightful discussion on the Matrix at the end of a YT reaction vid. Great reactions - subbed. As someone who saw it in cinemas at the time, I think it is mythologising a bit (which some do) to think everyone became enlightened on the spot having watched it - but people were definitely mindblown to some extent; everyone was like "Have you see it yet?" "Yeah amazing" - people recognised it as 'the coolest movie ever'; only a bit later did it begin to percolate into people's minds over time esp. on rewatches. It had a very strong impact - just not immediately or all at once.

[@ginawhisnant9966]

In an interview, Keanu was having dinner with a friend and his family when the young teen daughter asked what the Matrix was about. Keanu told her it was about a man who was learning that everything he had thought real was virtual reality and he was trying to find out what was real. She asked him "Why?" and blew his mind.

[@StinsonSwarley]

And then he replied "wooaaah"

[@BaronTormunda]

I usually enjoy your reactions but you (the man) talked such bollocks during this film - lol

[@rogeriopenna9014]

"crazy it was made in 1999... it does not feels like an old movie". That's because 1999 was not long ago... hmmm... actually 24 years. DAMN, I AM OLD!

[@shawbros]

7:51 Oh, there he is, our main man, Reanu Keeves.

[@Stockfish1511]

Best movie ever. At the time it came out, it was mindblowing. People were talking everywhere about the matrix. It was something that left people in crisis questioning life and reality. Also the filming was something else, all this slow motion etc stuff was groundbreaking in movies never done before. This is why it looks so good even today. Incredible story, actors and more importantly a fantastic villain. The movie had incredible marketing up to release, trailers were done so clever telling us that nobody knows about the matrix until we see it ourselves. On top of that first release reviews were on such level, people were talking like it was the best shit ever. Well it was. Imo best movie ever hands down.

[@ddoucette]

At 19:58 he literally described the premise of “They Live” by John Carpenter. Gotta put that on your playlist.

[@lunaticzeroone]

holy moly I looooved your expression of the symbolism here. It really cleaned up and improved my own similar insight. thanks for sharing this

[@MUSBFRANK]

My most watched movie in the theaters, couldn't get enough of it, saw it at least a dozen times until I could get my hands on the DVD! 😍

[@geak78]

I love your reactions. You understand the intricacies of movies that I always miss.

[@BadassRaiden]

Just want to revisit the Andrew Tate thing. He has never been a leader of a movement to "escape the matrix" of the world we live in. First of all, he simply used that phrase to make himself seem more enlightened than he actually is. The current matrix of our society is capitalism and aside from the matrix ultimately being a trans story as confirmed by Lana Wachowski herself - to the broader audience the film is meant to shine a light on the most pervasive system of our time, which happens to be capitalism. I mean it's quite obvious it's about capitalism when Morpheus gives his first monologue to neo right before offering the pills. "You are here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you can feel it. You've felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad... The matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it, when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes; it is the world, that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. That you are a slave." It's truly a perfect description of the world we live in, and how we live in it. We look around and there are so many goddamn problems, but we can't seem to pin down what exactly is the cause. It's capitalism. That's the system that enslaves us. It's a prison that we are quite literally born into to, as is illustrated by the fact that the zip code you were born in is a better metric on which to calculate your likelihood of success than hard work or dedication is. We toil and slave away at corporations that increasingly take away our rights as workers, and reduce our wages, wages used to spend on necessities for literal survival that have been commodified by capitalism, like food and water. And we see it everywhere; out the window, on television, in our own lives, and we feel it everywhere we go. This is important to Andrew Tate because the lifestyle that he espouses in order for one to escape the matrix, is to buy fancy cars, buy fancy clothes, date super models, eat at expensive restaurants - which is imbedding yourself more into capitalism, not escaping it. Lastly the consequences he is facing is not because of some movement. It's because he's a serial rapist and sex trafficker - and without even needing to be frank, he should spend the rest of his life rotting behind bars.

[@mauveomyt1995]

seethe

[@TimoRutanen]

I wouldn't say it's capitalism per se, but how we've set up society. There are enormous engines going inside it to make things work, and people have to find a place for themselves in it. The system benefits them sometimes and hinders them other times, and people look for a spot where it benefits them more often (promotions, better jobs, better houses and so on).

[@saiffronn]

based baudrillardian

[@quack2thesequel]

Andrew tate sucks but the matrix ain't about being trans dude, this is just retroactive bs by the author, so dumb. Don't believe what authors say all the time, cause they'r ehuman beings with self interests too.

[@MittenzTVYT]

After watching the movie 100 times. I began to interpret the end as him talking with the machines. Telling them what's about to happen and where we go from there. Is up to them.

[@Cluter]

Took me 1 time to realize that, but hey you came to the conclusion eventually!

[@6kembe4orba]

You had to watch the movie 100 times to get that? 2 times is already too much LMAO EARTH IS DOOMED - FULL OF DUMB AF PEOPLE, I'M GLADLY AWAITING FOR A.I. TO TAKE OVER - THE SOONER, THE BETTER xD

[@kylepirigyi9347]

Y'all nailed it. What a treat.

[@krzysiek23b]

It's not about true love kiss. Just as Neo had to understand and believe in himself that he was the one, so Trinity had to understand that she loved him in order to fulfill what the oracle said that she would fall in love with the chosen one.

[@CorneliusSchwarzenstein]

47:40 Well, technically, he isn’t flying. He’s still sitting in his chair with a plug in his brain.

[@ThaFunkster100]

Just starting the video, I love how you both dressed up for this, got a smile out of me :D

[@servantprince]

25:44 the most important line

[@wristcontr0l]

"I'm going to start dressing like Neo. Forever." Literally every 14 year old who saw this movie in '99.

[@epotty21]

Wow, Ive watched this film several times and you guys got things I never caught...Great job...There are 3 more Matrix films that put the missing pieces together... Some Recommendations you might like: TRUMAN SHOW, THE GAME, LOGAN'S RUN

[@StinsonSwarley]

I'd add Inception and Memento to that list

[@sethwilliams1275]

"Rabbit hole" is from Alice in Wonderland and the follow the rabbit in the Matrix is a callback to that.

[@dayb00000]

Been with y’all since 100-200 subs, love ur content

[@mrg0th1er83]

The Wachowski sisters who created this movie are trans women and their trans experience was a uge influence in this story. The character of Switch was supposed to be a man in the real world but a woman in the Matrix (to show her internal identity didn't fit her body) but the studio said it would be too confusing. So they just made her a bit non binary instead. So it is very strange to me when anty LGBTQ people use the Matrix in their argument or list it as their favorite film.

[@SherloqX]

Just discovered y'all's channel. Beautiful young couple. I saw the Matrix in my late 20s at the theater in 99. It literally was the groundbreaking movie for CGI and the bullet time effects. Thanks for the laugh when you said.... oh, they are downloading John Wick. That's too funny!!

[@chuckwilson4186]

Wait till you guys see the second and third movie.. and there’s even a four movie.. enjoy where the rabbit hole takes you !

[@phtevenj]

27:09 they hid the camera in this shot by painting the rest of morpheus' tie onto something and draping it over the camera.. such great detail

[@midnightburner]

Luv your reactions, excited for this one ❤

[@michaelingram1487]

Masonry; Monarch programming; symbolism...instant subscriber

[@WMalven]

There were 4 films released at almost the same time about the same subject, alternate realities. The first was "Dark City" released in 1998, then in 1999 came "The Matrix," "eXistenZ," and "The 13th Floor." All of these films are great fun and all cause your brain to go into overdrive.

[@billymuellerTikTok]

I would put Fight Club there too as well as American Beauty, those two movies, Office Space & The Matrix all are about a guy trapped in a dead end white collar slave office job getting freedom by quitting / getting fired from that job

[@tammyknoll1496]

We would destroy ourselves (more quickly) if we could download programs directly to our brain. Imagine the chaos!

[@js6729]

We ARE in the Matrix. I'm not even joking, the Matrix has you all

[@rafm3068]

I saw this in the theater when it came out. And everyone was blown away. Nobody had ever seen anything like it before. Gabi picked up a lot of symbols pretty quick!

[@Cau_No]

I was in a early premiere in my city when it released. The scene with Trinity's first jump got applause from the whole audience. After half an hour, when the truth about the Matrix was revealed, I found my new favourite movie. I was much into that philosophy at the time (reading a lot of Philip K. Dick) Never regretted the admittance fee after I left the cinema.

[@hectordelacruz5222]

I always like watching first time Matrix reactions. I stood in line with my Bro for 2 hrs @ Mans Chinese Theater in 1999 and it blew my mind. great content

[@Defensive_Wounds]

11:27 - I still have my Nokia from 2004 - it works perfectly!

[@ivanbutenko8778]

I really like this movie, I remember that I bought a videotape with this movie and I still have it in a box like part 2 is already a relic) I remember when I first watched this movie, it made a big impression on me!

[@AudieHolland]

Wondering how many people hurt themselves after watching this film is the same as asking that for any movie or work of (non-)fiction that has been released in our time. My father is a retired medical professional, a doctor. In his time, he has seen people suffering from psychoses that led them to take their own lives. Some people have this affliction and there is not a lot we can do about it. In The Netherlands, as I used to travel to work by train a lot, there are mentally ill people jumping in front of trains to end their lives. As someone who travelled daily by train, I encountered this problem because there would be an announcement over the train broadcasting system that train such was delayed/cancelled because of a train hitting a person. This meant that on average, every six months a train would be cancelled and the next train would only start running again after 4 hours. The Netherlands has a population of over 17 million people so I don't know if that rate of suicide by train is high or not. I do know that certain trajects are notorious for these incidents because the train tracks run close to nearby mental institutions. There's one easy way to disconnect (a bit). Stop watching commercials or turn off the sound for the duration. Think of yourself, as I presume most of us do, 'I want to be unique.' And what do unique individuals? We do not buy mass produced and mass marketed items, even though the commercial will tell us we 'are unique' if we buy their stuff. How can anyone be slightly unique if they buy the same phone that millions of other so-called individuals are buying?

[@cskyco]

I watched this when i was 17, a genuine favourite of mine to this day. It is great seeing you react with the same intrigue i had. Hello from Scotland!

[@jeanpaulfelix4095]

How lucky. You get to see this masterpiece for the first time.

[@jasonreynolds3728]

I was a senior in high school when this came out (March 1999). Columbine happened April 20, 1999. The two school assailants called themselves the “trench coat mafia” and they would dress like characters from the Matrix. I remember seeing the live footage of Columbine on the news immediately followed by a commercial for the Matrix… showing a preview of Neo and Trinity mowing down all the security guards with shotguns and uzis. The Matrix was Certainly groundbreaking cinema, but (at least for me) It just hit different when it came out in the spring of 99, especially being in high school.

[@AikanaroSauron]

All other things apart, you have no idea how many people across the whole world thought to themselves "I'm gonna start dressing like Neo" back then, and did.

[@splintert4231]

You should see John Woo's Hardboiled and Mamoru Oshii's anime Ghost in the Shell to see where this film's major influences come from. Hong Kong action cinema from the 90's (especially John Woo and movies produced by Tsui Hark) had a direct impact on how the Matrix films and Hollywood in general started doing action in films. The directors of this film also especially love anime and comics.

[@servantprince]

wait until you watch it for the 100th time, then you will have a chance

[@iamworthy1302]

Y'all just sat there and over thought the whole movie lol. It's really not that complicated. You'll never figure out part 2 tho 😅

[@myjoy5115]

I've watched it in the theaters back then. It was mindblowing and since then I had a lot of time to think about the matrix and researching some rabbit wholes on my own. Some say it is more like a documentary. Now I agree...

[@CactusJackSlade]

I'm glad you enjoyed it. I watched it in the movie theater in 1999, just as incredible now as it was then, only the experience in the theater. There were so many references in this movie it is hard to count, religious, fairy tales (Alice in wonderland etc). On the religious, when Trinity kisses Neo, maybe that was the "resurrection" you had mentioned?

[@singerkgreen]

A conspiracy theorist that never saw the Matrix is like a Marine that's never seen Full Metal Jacket.

[@ronaldk.wileyjr.5476]

Fun fact, this movie is basically the continuation of the Terminator after the computers/machines take over. In the gun scene when they get Morpheus they even play the Terminator beat.

[@mikelundquist4596]

Fun fact... the whole wabbit thing can be attributed to Elmer Fudd.

[@olgawolga2901]

The Matrix is basically a story about ones higher self getting in contact with ones lesser self and finally transforming it. A story of ego death and ascension into a higher dimension. The movie itself is the red pill that was fed to us when it released in theaters.

[@AlphaToOmegaXG]

Best reaction to The Matrix ever!

[@SRoss-lq1ii]

She is the smartest of the two reviewers.

[@marclaliberte4118]

awesome reaction!

[@WendyHarding-kz2gk]

You guy's are amazing. Very factual 😮

[@WarriorPoet01]

Concerning three’s - Nikola Tesla said something to the effect that if you wanted the keys to the universe, understand the power of 3, 6, and 9.

[@philmullineaux5405]

When u said the word, Symbology...I immediately thought of the movie, Boondock Saints!

[@EduardoValenciaPuga]

It's funny that you keep saying John Wick, you must be very young, Neo was before, he is from 1999; Neo made Keanu the big star that is now, Neo made John Wick. It was interesting reading your reactions . Nice video

[@Cau_No]

There is a good mix of eastern and western philosophies in this movie. The Anime "Ghost in the Shell" was a main inspiration, both mentally and visually. Later iterations of the Anime even gave back references to the Matrix. Neo is actually a full messiah or 'Jesus' character. He is awakened, resurrected and in the last scene we see his 'Ascension'. Cypher, the 'snake' as you called him, even wears a jacket made from snake leather. Morpheus glasses are of the type 'pince-nez' (pinch-nose), they were widespread in the 19th century, being a precursor to the modern ones with earpieces. Btw, Breatharians are not a thing. It's a scam. You lose weight with every time breathing out, if you don't replenish that with matter, you'll die.

[@nasilelelisselo2348]

It literally based on The Butlerian Jihad in Dune with the neo noir style of Dark City and the base of Ghost in the Shell with the cybernetic implants.

[@TenTonNuke]

Most people think Trinity's kiss brings Neo back, but in reality she's just confirming the Oracle's prophecy that she would fall in love with the One. So he was already going to come back to life, being the One, but Trinity just showed that even in death, when all was lost, she still had faith. Again, it's the story of Christianity, where the apostles (supposedly) kept the faith even after Christ's execution.

[@PandaJohns]

24 years under a rock, unbelievable.

[@hoon_sol]

Her: «So that _was_ real?» Me, internally: «What is real? How do you define "real"?»

[@petresko1041]

Something to observe upon rewatch: The Oracle mentions "Your next life maybe, who knows" and gives Neo a cookie, which changed his code inside the Matrix. Upon dying he became the one because of the Oracle altering him. If you decide to rewatch the next 2 movies, keep in mind that the Oracle is a system, which cooperates with humans against the Matrix just like a hacker would to find vulnerabilities in software. Her purpose is to manipulate humans and make the Matrix stronger.

[@Lynn705Hal]

And you couldn't have let them discover this on their own instead of giving them spoilers?😒

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

This was pretty painful to watch.

[@playerone7663]

The directors of this made another GREAT movie, Cloud Atlas, very underrated IMO

[@wojecire]

38:00 that was me at 13. My first rated R movie I ever saw in the theater was The Matrix. It blew my mind.

[@Senor-Misterioso]

1999 was a great year for going to the theater. The first Matrix movie and the first Lord of the Rings.

[@billymuellerTikTok]

best movie of 1999 went straight to video - Boondock Saints

[@billymuellerTikTok]

American Beauty, Office Space & Fight Club too in 1999

[@billymuellerTikTok]

also The Sixth Sense and Green Mile

[@billymuellerTikTok]

another thing that made 1999 movies so iconic was in 2000 most people started switching from VHS to DVD and these are the movies everyone wanted to get