Second Episode of The Animatrix Released

murphyslawyer writes "The second episode of Animatrix is now available. Download it here"

Comments

I liked the first episode

[Dark Paladin]

Granted, it was rather short, and it rather thunked you over the head with its message rather than letting the story give it to you - but there were elements that were incredibly well done.

First, the animation itself - a mix of hand-drawn and computer technology in the realm of Lain and Blood: The Last Vampire, only to an even better and more refined degree.

Then there were the images within the artwork. Probably the most disturbing scene in the first Animatrix video shows a women having her clothes torn off by a mob, and that sick feeling filling your gut as a man walks forward and bashes her in the head with a club - only to reveal that she's a robot, and as her all-too human looking breasts spill from her town shirt and her metallic head revealed, your both drawn and repelled by the feeling of how horrible to kill a woman in distress - except she isn't a woman at all. And yet, does that make it any more right?

So far, it's been an interesting lead in to the whole Matrix mythos. I'm downloading the second episode now (90 minutes to go) with high hopes.

Re:I liked the first episode

[Anonymous Coward]

Personally, I wasn't particularly impressed with the first Animatrix short. The animation was very nice, but the story itself was too heavy-handed for me.

The moral issues involving artificially intelligent life forms have been dealt with so many times that the premise just seemed rehashed. Certainly, it would be easy to cite examples of science fiction that deals with questions of robotic intelligence much more subtley.

But what dissapointed me was that the short failed to touch on the themes of the original Matrix. I think it would have been more interesting to see the origin of the Matrix explore the deep psychological oppression that the Matrix represents.

But that's just my opinion, and it was an entertaining short movie. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.

Anyone got the Kazaa dat file?

[Salamanders]

Or any other version of a P2P sig for it?

It makes me ask...

[Anonvmous Coward]

...why aren't the 3 movies animated?

The world of the 'future' in the first prequal was a much richer setting than the live-action movies.

Coulda made for a much more interesting story if they could let their imaginations grow.

Not Just Kinda

[LPetrazickis]

I kind of thought the
mass robot grave ~= our own historical holocaust(s)

The bit with bulldozers disposing of robot corpses is plagiarised directly from documentary footage of the real Holocaust. I'm pretty sure that there also borrowed bits from the US Civil Rights Movement and the Tianamen Square debacle.