Movie: The Matrix
This movie takes wickedly stylized film making and a perfect soundtrack and uses it as an extraordinary backdrop for a plot featuring extrapolated technology, kung-fu, and a look at a future of our world. The sum is much more than the parts. This movie could have been terrible - different directors, different actors, attempting to make it more “pop” and less gritty … there are so many wrong turns that are so frequently taken with futuristic movies of this type. This movie avoids these problems: how, I do not know.
This is the movie you want to see to start a discussion of philosophy. This is the movie you want to see to start a discussion of kung-fu.
This is the movie you want to see if “good/bad” aren’t nuanced enoughs distinctions for you in a plot.
The Matrix would screen poorly to an all-girl slumber party. It would screen wonderfully to just about any other audience over 14. Go watch this if you have not yet.