Describe a foreign film you like.
you should say:
the name of the film
when and where you watched it
what the film is about
and explain why you like this film.
My all-time favorite movie is “The Matrix”. This epic science-fiction trilogy was first released in 1999 and nailed four Oscars the same year.
The film depicts a dystopian future in which human beings live in “the Matrix”— a simulated world created by the machines perceived by human brains; while their bodies are caged in small capsules producing energy from the body heat and brain movements to fuel up the machines. The rest of the story is pretty much about how a computer programmer named “Neo” came to discover the truth and started to rebel against the Matrix and eventually freed mankind.
Underneath this simple storyline unfolds a complicated web of riddles and metaphors of language, culture, religion, science and philosophy. Everything could mean something else: a place, a color, a room number, a name…etc. For instance, the name “Neo” means “new” in Latin, and it is also an anagram of “one”. His name in the Matrix is Thomas Anderson. Thomas can be associated with the “Doubting Thomas” in the bible who, like Neo in the movie, doesn’t believe in “The One” at first; while “Anderson” ultimately comes from the Hebrew language denoting “son of man”, one of the titles of God the Messiah. When you piece all the information together, it becomes quite clear that Neo is “the Chosen One” who is destined to save humanity. On top of that, he is a “New One”. So what about the old ones? The suspense had been a real torture to me till I finally found the answers in the second and the third movies.
But the movie isn’t just about the metaphor tricks, it goes way deeper by calling into question the role of human beings in the universe, the boundary between body and mind, the similarity between scientific facts and religious beliefs, and finally the limbo between entity and spirituality.
To this day, these questions still haunt me, begging for answers. The Matrix is truly one of a kind, definitely one of the must-sees.
