FILM CLUB: MATRIX (OV)

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FSK 16 | 136 minutes | Action / Science fiction | Release: 17.06.1999 | USA 1999

Sensational sci-fi action film by the Wachowski sisters, which boasts incredible special effects and made Keanu Reeves a superstar.

On his forays through the internet, hacker Neo (Keanu Reeves) makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne). He reveals to him that reality has long been dominated by machines and that humans are actually in a permanent slumber - left alive only as suppliers of bioenergy. The world as we know it, on the other hand, is a simulation, created to distract people and make them compliant, the so-called Matrix. But he, Neo, has been chosen to free humanity from the Matrix. When Neo realizes that Morpheus is right, he faces up to his task ...