Introduction

1001 movies you must see before you die. Must I? Let's see.

My name is Dagmar and I am from Czech Republic. I have a bachelor's degree in screenwriting. I study movies. I watch movies. I write about movies. I kind of mention movies a lot. I even cross stitch things I like in movies. My views on cinema could be described as peculiar. My views on the "1001 movies" list as complicated. It happens a lot that I get the feeling it wasn't that necessary to see some particular movies. Sometimes I'm really grateful I saw them. And there are also times when I don't watch any new movies for six months straight. And they keep adding new movies every damn year so I might have to never die to watch them all.

What's the score right now?
606/1245 - That's 639 left to see.
I started this experiment on July 3rd 2009 and the latest update was made on April 19th 2023.

You can find the full list here.

Thursday, 5 January 2017

The Matrix (1999)

USA
written and directed by: The Wachowskis
starring: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne
comment: 5th Januray, 2017

-"Do you think that's air you're breathing now?"

If there is a film equivalent of a motivational postcard depicting sunset with a scribble reading "Which one of you bitches wants to dance?", then it must be The Matrix. Because there is no spoon. It's a fairy tale conveying that everything can be alright in the end, complete with a wise fox offering helpful advice, a horse with golden mane that can fly and help you achieve your mission and a crossroad where a hero must choose which path will most likely lead to the water of life. And never before and never after was the unchanging expression of Keanu Reeves used so efficiently and ostentatiously. I will, probably forever, love everything about this film, including the fact that the steak Cypher enjoys so much looks absolutely revolting to me.


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