WORLD RECORD is another (I think) discrete short story, of an athlete who ruptures himself into seeing actual reality by obsessing past the limits of what his “body” should be able to do
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Love the animatrix, and how some of the stories (last flight of the osiris for example) are referenced off hand in the films.
The games (especially the matrix game for ps2) tell a story arc that is also referenced in the film and links in perfectly.
Never seen that done since and it's a shame.
This one’s great if you ask me, to have its emotional heft in so short a time is not easy and the rough fluidity of its animation rules. A Vampire Hunter D guy directed this one
BEYOND takes place in as small a corner of this saga as you’ll find but it’s one of my favorites; pure exploration. Its characters all live blissfully in the Matrix, where a neighborhood “haunted house” caused by corrupted code does the strangest things
Its look is very much on the traditional side for this anthology—it’s directed by Kôji Morimoto, whose career goes back to the late ‘80s and includes animating on AKIRA—and includes a lot of rotoscoped action. I like that, Bakshi forever, but some may not? Who cares, love this one
A DETECTIVE’S STORY is by the same guy who did KID’S STORY but it’s one of my favorites, a scratchy black and white story of a gumshoe who thinks he lives in reality. The phones are rotary and the computers have 1940s typewriter keyboards
He’s called up and offered a lot of moneh to find a hacker named Trinity (aha), and seems to get close, and in the end it’s a neat little digression that must have happened on a day when she wasn’t too busy
“Moneh” is the worst typo of my life. Anyway the next and last is MATRICULATED, by the Æon Flux guy, and you’re never going to believe this but it’s about a beautiful and spindly woman on a mission inside a labyrinthine biomechanical structure
This is my favorite one...I love the cleaness of Morimoto's style, which reminds me a bit of my favorite anime director, Yasuomi Umetsu, but also the way this plays with the world...and demonstrates the strange beauty of it with this 'glitch' space with it's clipping errors and faulty bounding boxes
I love the idea that this 'flaw' is a miraculous thing to these kids, but to the Matrix program it's just a bug that needs to be fixed, and there's something sad and melancholy about the world being stripped of it's magic to maintain the dull illusion of reality.
Actually, this was directed by Takeshi Koike, and was his big break out as a director...he's done some just PHENOMENAL stuff after this, including REDLINE and the three most recent (and quite grisly and adult) LUPIN THE 3RD movies!
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The games (especially the matrix game for ps2) tell a story arc that is also referenced in the film and links in perfectly.
Never seen that done since and it's a shame.
This was exceptional to me.
He is an EXCEPTIONAL animator and storyteller!
Getting close to my favorite!