animatrix

The Matrix trilogy is my favorite trilogy, and The Matrix, first part, is one of my top five all time favorite movies. But I never got a chance to watch the animatrix, and now I am wondering what took me so long.

Before starting the film, I had high expectations about it, keeping the original movie in mind. And man did it exceed my expectations! It was mind blowing indeed. The quality of animation puts pixar to shame, and I have great respect for pixar, but these japansese studios are far ahead of the game.

I always believed the perspective shown in the matrix movies was lacking, though brilliant, it seemed incomplete, as if something was missing. I had some answered questions, some concerns, few anxieties. animatrix took care of most of them. and gave birth to some more. I love movies that tease my brain and give me a new dimension of thinking, movies like the devil’s advocate, being john malkovich, artificial intelligence, are all in my top ten favorite movies because of that, and animatrix is quickly climbing up in the list. I am afraid it might become my most favorite animated movie. Pixar’s Monster’s Inc. currently holds that spot, but not for long. Watch out mike wazowski, let me watch the animatrix few more times and you will have to settle for number two.

so here is what I thought after watching it.

are human beings really on their way to self destruction?

will the human race not reach its end by fighting each other but by fighting the machines?

Will they really make the artificial intelligence so advance that some day machines will have a will of their own?

although it seems too far fetched, but who knows somebody might come up with a new algorithm to let a machine emotionaly express itself?

what if somehow robots learnt to protect themselves under any circumstances? would they hasitate murdering a human?

what if robots started to communicate with each other, which is conceivable, considering the current progress in wifi.

what if they come up with their own encryption algorithm, unbreakable by humans, and use that to talk to each other? if we made machines smart enough to write programs, why wouldnt they be able to write encryption?

I know AI is not advanced enough right now to let the computer make its own decisions, but the concepts of learning machines and self programming computers are not too new.

If we ended up making too many robots to be able to monitor all of them, if we ended up making more robots than human population, then who would be able to stop them if they riot against their creators?

if we give the next generation bombers enough intelligence to figure out its target without human help, would we able to stop it from targeting back at us?

what if the most powerful computer assumes the role of the leader of artificial intelligent world, and form its own government? will we negotiate? or would we start a war?

i just had mental orgasm.

if you were more than entertainted by the matrix trilogy, and if it provoked your thoughts at all, then you must watch the animatrix, and let me know how you felt about it.