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Why was "The Matrix" so successful?

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What is it that makes "The Matrix" so successful? In April of 1999 the Wachowski brothers released their new sci-fi film, "The Matrix." On its opening weekend, The Matrix was shown on 2849 screens and brought in 27.788 million dollars. So what exactly was it that made The Matrix such a storming success? "The Matrix" would not be as successful without its ingenious plot, in which human beings are the perpetrators of their own destruction. The creation of A.I. (artificial intelligence) made machines dangerous and thus a war began, between man and machine. During the war man caused the skies to darken, destroying the machines' energy source, forcing them to find another: energy generated by human bodies. Now, somewhere around the year 2199, human beings are "grown" by machines in a place called "The Human Crops." They are distracted from reality by a construction similar to a computer programme, disguised...

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