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Why are people so concerned about 'chronology'?

posted 12 years ago by Shred_Master
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So many posts about where does it fit in and what's the order, etc. If you paid attention to the movies and the shorts, it will be obvious to you and thus, should not matter. Are you really that obsessive to the point where you have to figure out which short films come before and after Matrix, which ones are in-between what sequels and after the last one before you sit down, watch it all and enjoy it? Man, you must really hate watching Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill.

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[–] Liquidje 12 years ago

No. People who are really into movies tend to like to analyze the movies, especially when there is lots of subtexts adn sublayers to it.

I did not have this with the Matrix, but did with some other movies. Don't say that people are idiots for deepening out their favorite movie. For the movies I did have those experiences with, it was freaking awesome to just analyze the *beep* out of it.

[–] Shred_Master 12 years ago

I wasn't calling anyone an idiot, it's just that I fail to see the point of it.

I understand analyzing movies and sure, I've done my share of analyzing the Matrix but most of that takes place without watching the movie. When you're watching, you're not using your brain to concentrate on the "subtexts and layers", you're just getting caught up in the visuals and what's presented to you at face value.

We ain't hunting him, he's hunting us.

[–] Liquidje 12 years ago

Idiots was maybe not the right word, but you see it as pointless then: if people like to analyze the *beep* out of a movie, its what they like to do, so it is not pointless as it satisfies them. Some people don't understand the fun, like I don't understand the fun in collecting post stamps.

Having a clear "point" to achieve is of course trivial with movies: what's the point of watching a movie in the first place?

[–] CaptainViggo 12 years ago

Well, even without thinking about it, "The Final Flight of the Osiris" obviously takes place just before Reloaded / Enter the Matrix, and "Kid's Story" also obviously takes place a little time before Reloaded. And "The Second Renaissance" is clearly an origin story.

The rest of the shorts are basically "what if" stories (very good ones), and I agree that it doesn't really matter to try to find out when they take place in the Matrix chronology, and I'm even pretty sure that no official chronology was used during the making of those episodes.

But I understand why people would want to have a canon chronology, after all, at the time of Reloaded, the Wachowskis set a quite complex multi-mediums project, involving two movies, a video game, and animated shorts, two of them being strongly connected to Reloaded. They basically set a (basic) puzzle in place with pieces here and there, it seems pretty normal for the fans to want to know all the details. I don't, but I can understand them.

[–] mjrules31 12 years ago

I think "A Detective Story" takes place sometime before the first movie. I wonder sometimes if Morpheus thought the detective in the story could have been the One.