Animatrix

Animatrix was made by Andy and Larry Wachowski. It shows us nine shorts about some things that happened in the famous film Matrix. I want to show what Animatrix hides. Some people watch films without thinking what they are watching and learning with this. They only want to enjoy themselves watching a kind of story. But plenty of films should be analyzed because are they more than a film. Watching the story of "The Second Renaissance" of Animatrix, I saw a good example to criticize and analyze a film because it is full of moral and political contents.
The story talks about a future experience of the world and start saying:
In the beginning, there was man. And for a time, it was good. But humanity's so -called civil societies soon fall victim to vanity and corruption. This sentence makes us guilty about the consequences which will happen through Animatrix. It means that egoism and the ambitious intention of men corrupt his mind. The story says that men create machines in their own appearance and use them to do the work that they don't want to do. I saw in this an allegory of the Work Fields where Germany used the Jewish people.


Then, B1-66ER, a kind of domestic robot, kills his owners who were politicians that want to kill him because he has heard a private conversation about the government. B1-66ER claims that he only wants to live. And then, the narrator attacks us with another moral question: Mustn't there a machine with human characteristics mustn't have a right judgement? From starts a revolution of the machines that want to be listened by the human. But the human race knows that they must eliminate the machines. Through these images I could see some clear symmetries with the Holocaust and how the Nazis exterminated Jews. In the film humans throw robot corpses in a ditch like in the images that we can see in "Schindler's list" film. If we haven't seen yet how Jews use morality indirectly, we have more clues along both shorts. Then, the robots that remain alive create a new city "where they can grow their sons and a place that they can call Home". The name of the city was Zero-One. It was curious that they situate it just in the place where the state of Israel. During this time, they create some industries. They work all day and this way they can obtain the monopoly of the worldwide production. Then human don't know how to act, because they need Zero-One products, but they hate robots because they are destroying their production. That's why they try to aisle Zero-One, like the United States did with Cuba. It is another political content. The machines become richer, like the Jews, and want to enter in the human organizations like ONU, etc. But humans don't want it and they decide to destroy Zero-One and the entire machines world. The film shows us the madness of the story through the human acts. Then, human can't destroy machines at all and they think in a "Final Solution". If you don't know, the Holocaust Nazi was also called "The Final Solution" so you can see the similarities.


The "Final Solution" consists in making the sky dark and this way delete the sun that is the main source of energy of the machines and from create make a dark war in a black field without light. And in this point of the story there starts a great battle against the machines. It was great because there are some cruel and stressing images that show us the brutality of the wars. In this battle we can see my favourite image of the film which is an apocalyptic horseman robot, with his trumpet and his machine horse, carrying a flag. In this battle we can also see that the number of corpses is counted in the bottom of the screen. It remembers me some Zombies Gore Films.

If you take the red pill you will be able to see who rules the world now and how they make us see what they want.

All images taken from www.intothematrix.com