The hot love crash in 2019 is undoubtedly a series of excellent works, and the audience has seen the original science fiction, a niche art genre, which can give people such a strange experience.
In fact, as early as 2003, there was such an animation and such an operation, and more than 40,000 people scored a high score of 8.8 on Douban.
Its theme is taken from a very famous cyberpunk movie, the birth of this series of films has influenced the conception of countless film and television works, its director lineup is very dreamy, and there are many wonderful works at random.
This animation is—
The Matrix Animated Edition
During the break between the release of the second and third films of the Matrix films, an animated version of the Matrix consisting of nine short films was released.
This Japanese-American co-production animation, which predates Rokushina by more than ten years, was produced by the Wachowski sisters and well-known animators such as Shinichiro Watanabe and Yoshiaki Kawajiri.
The entire animation itself is a work that warms up for the third film, but the true level of "The Matrix Animation Edition" is far from being a warm-up appetizer.
Among these animations, the complementary film is set in two "Mechanical Revival" written by the Wachowski sisters.
In both animations, the director introduces the story that preceded the Matrix movie.
In the movie, humans are the oppressed side, but in the prequel story, the audience can know that it is the exploitation of human conscious robots that has caused the evil consequences of their own oppression.
The first robot to rebel against humans, B1-66er, took the initiative to resist because he was about to be destroyed by his master, and he and his robots of the same model were disposed of.
Although he was destroyed by humans long ago, his rebellion led to 50,000 robots and humans sympathetic to robots began to take to the streets to resist.
However, at this time, the robots that did not have military strength were slaughtered by the human army, and the surviving robots were exiled to the deserts of the Middle East, giving their country a gay name zero-one.
Zero-one gradually gave birth to artificial intelligence beyond human intelligence, and also relied on high-tech products such as flying cars to make its economic level gradually surpass that of human countries.
Zero-one also tried to send ambassadors to join the human nation, but was eventually rejected by the humans, and war broke out at this time.
Because robots' physical functions and weapon firepower are far superior to humans, war is almost a one-sided trend.
In the end, humans decided to use black fog to separate the robot from the sun, so that the robot could not get solar energy, but in the end, humans could not save the decline before the robot ran out of energy, and was defeated by the robot.
Robots that conquer humans survive through the energy generated by the human body, and set up a virtual world for humans that they think they can choose freely, the matrix, and eventually form a strange symbiotic relationship with humans.
The whole animation, in addition to this supplement to the original background of the story, also has "Detective Story", "Juvenile Story", "World Record" these more prominent director, original painting personal style of the work.
The first two are works directed by Shinichiro Watanabe.
For example, in "Detective Story", the jazz music in the background is together, the protagonist takes a cigarette, and the smell of Watanabe comes out.
Because it does not have to take on the function of completing the story setting of "The Matrix", it also gives Watanabe more room to play.
The timing of "Detective Story" is not far from the first part of "The Matrix", and the private detective Ash, who is almost so poor as to sell kidneys, finally receives a call from a client.
The client refuses to be named, only asking him to track down a hacker named Trinity, who discovers that there have been detectives who have tracked Downiti, but either commit suicide or go crazy.
Ash only got the word "Red Queen" from a crazy detective as a clue to find Trinity, and eventually he managed to contact the Red Queen online, solving her anagram and thus obtaining a meeting place.
Eventually, Ash meets Trinity at the meeting point, and it turns out that all this is a test she designed to find a savior who saves humanity.
But Ash is copied by the ensuing Agent program, and Trinity understands that he is not the savior.
His life ended as he was encroached upon by the Agent Program.
Although the plot of this short film is simple, Watanabe's fandom complex makes this short film full of stylization.
In his previous works, there are homages to Hong Kong films, such as the scene in "Star Cowboy" where Spike and Bixas fight in homage to Wu Yusen.
In Detective Story, Watanabe is modeled after the popular film noir in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s.
The tough guy detective and scorpion beauty in the animation are the standard in film noir, and the dark gray and black of the whole film occupy most of the picture, which is also imitating the lighting method of film noir.
Of course, the same stylized short films are "Teenage Story" and "World Records", the two animations do not have a complex plot, most of them rely on the picture to give the audience the ultimate experience.
Although "Teenage Story" is still directed by Watanabe, the original painting Daipei Shinya and Hashimoto Shinji are like drinking big, which is more camera-grabbing.
The whole animation is about the process of a teenager escaping from the mother, but the original artist's extremely deformed painting style and exaggerated angle draw the pursuit of the protagonist and the agent very wild and cool, so that the audience has an extreme enjoyment.
"World Record" and "Juvenile Story" are also a road number, the plot is very simple, the whole film does not have a few lines, is to give this kind of direct experience with the picture.
This short story tells the unique awakening of a world sprint champion.
In the Matrix setting, only extremely suspicious and sensitive people can generally perceive that the world is virtual.
But this protagonist broke his world record by relying on the determination to break through the speed at the expense of muscle bursting, touching the boundaries of the world by speed alone, and discovering the truth that human beings actually live in the virtual world.
The whole animation relies on this description of the speed of the protagonist, which makes people experience the fighting spirit of the protagonist.
Of course, the entire animation is not always undisputedly excellent, and one of the short films," The Matrix, has a mixed reputation.
The short film tells the story of a squad of humans trying to get robots to understand humans and fight against other robots.
The point of criticism about "Matrix" is this animation, which uses some bizarre pictures to show the scene of the anti-robot.
These pictures are indeed not like carbon-based organisms can make, so that many people feel that they are mysterious.
But I think these images are because they show humans in the eyes of robots.
For robots, humans belong to another species, and naturally there is such a strange feeling.
The director often uses metaphorical pictures to tell the plot, such as the human image formed after the robot sheds the metal ball, symbolizing his transformation from a robot to a human identity.
In war, the use of a shoe that falls in front of the robot's eyes is quite a sexual image, symbolizing that the robot has begun to have a kind of admiration for human women.
While previous cyberpunk works have discussed what kind of life will be born after the fusion of humans and machines and networks, this work does the opposite to explore what it would be like for machines to have human emotions.
The other short films in this anime also have their own strengths.
For example, "The Final Leap", which describes the destruction of a spaceship in the final battle, and "Beyond", which specifically shows the mother bugs.
There are also "procedures" that discuss the true and false -
The Matrix Animation Is Like a Feast for the Whole Han, and although each short film has a different focus, most of the animation is relatively comprehensive.
This masterpiece once again proves that the combination of imagination and painting skills is the unique charm of animation.