Plot Segmentation (The Matrix) posted at 11:58 pm 3/1/13

Scene 1:

• Armed policemen enter a hotel to arrest a woman dressed in black called Trinity.
• Trinity defeats the policemen and is chased from building to building by an agent.
• Trinity makes a desperate dash to a phone booth before a truck drives right through it and Trinity disappears.

Scene 2

• A hacker named Neo is portrayed asleep in front of his monitor, until messages appear on the screen telling him what to do next. 
• A group of shady looking people arrive at Neo’s door and he gives them a disk and the group invites Neo to go with them and he does.

Scene 3

• Neo then arrives at a rave bar and runs into Trinity and she warns him that they are in great danger.

Scene 4

• Neo awakens the next day and goes to his job at Metacortex. He receives a package from a Thomas Anderson.
• Neo finds a cell phone in the package and it immediately rings. Neo answers it and there is a man at the other end who says “They are coming for you!”
• Agents then approach Neo and the man on the phone informs Neo to escape but Neo rejects and goes with the agents anyway.

Scene 5

• Neo is taken to an interrogation room where the agents confront him especially a one Agent Smith.
• Agent Smith asks for Neo’s help to capture someone by the name of Morpheus who they believe is a Terrorist.
• Neo refuses the agents demands and is pinned to the table and the agents inject a small probe into his belly button.

Scene 6

• Neo awakens then in his own bed and immediately gets a phone call from Morpheus who tells him to meet them under the bridge.
• Neo goes to the bridge and is picked up by Trinity and another woman.
• Trinity then uses a device to remove the probe that was in Neo’s belly button.

Scene 7

•  Trinity takes Neo to Morpheus and Morpheus informs him about the Matrix and everything that is going on.
• Morpheus then offers Neo two pills: to take the red pill or to take the blue pill.
• Neo takes the blue pill.

Scene 8

• Neo awakens inside a pod with his hair gone and tubes stuck to his skin. 
• Morpheus and his crew rescue Neo and inform him “Welcome to the real world!”

Scene 9

• Neo awakens in this world of machines. He finds himself in the construct a place where newly awakened humans get taught to deal with the matrix. 

Scene 10

• Neo awakens and Morpheus informs him of a great war and how he can not go back to the life he used to live. 
• Neo then gets training from a guy named Tank.

Scene 11

• Neo then stars sparing and using the Kung fu he was taught to train with Morpheus. 

Scene 12

• Morpheus and Neo walk down a town street that turns out to be a simulation that is supposed to resemble the matrix. 

Scene 13

• A ship called Nebuchadnezzar sees the holographic image of a squiddy, a search and destroy sentinel, which is on their trail. They set the ship down in a huge sewer system and turn off the power.
• Two squiddies search for the ship — the crew can see them — but they move on.

Scene 14

• Neo startles Cypher, who is working at a computer console.
  

Scene 15

• Cypher is now in a fancy restaurant with Agent Smith in the Matrix.and Agent Smith asks if they have a deal.
  

Scene 16

• Neo and the rest of the crew are in the Nebuchadnezzar’s dining room enjoying a meal.

Scene 17

•  Morpheus, Trinity, Neo, Apoc, Switch, Mouse and Cypher are jacked into the Matrix. As they walk out of a warehouse Cypher secretly throws his cell phone into the garbage.

Scene 18

• Neo meets with the Oracle. 

Scene 19

• An Agent takes over the body of one of the policemen, reaches into the wall, and grabs Neo by the neck. Morpheus, who is above Neo in the walls, breaks through the wall and lands on the agent, yelling to Trinity to get Neo out of the building.

Scene 20

• A fierce battle between Agent Smith and Morpheus ends with Morpheus face down on the tile. Agent Smith sends the police unit in to beat him with their batons.
  

Scene 21

• Trinity attempts to call Tank but Cypher pulls the headset off of the smoking remains of Tank and answers. As Cypher talks to Trinity inside the Matrix.
  

Scene 22

• Cypher pulls the plug out of the back of Apoc’s head, and Apoc falls down dead in the Matrix.
  

Scene 23

• Tank kills Cypher

Scene 24

• The agents torture Morpheus. 
• Neo and Trinity go to try to rescue Morpheus.

Scene 25

• Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus run from Agent Smith into the subway. 
• Trinity and Morpheus exit the matrix and Neo fights Agent Smith.

Scene 26

• Neo defeats Agent Smith
• End Credits.

Plot segmentation: I felt like this movie was a really good and entertaining film. I feel like every piece of the movie fitted together very well with each scene and the plot. It worked especially well when the scene transitioned back and forth between the matrix and reality. It kept the viewer wondering what happened next going from one world to the other. As the story was narrating itself one would see what would be happening in the matrix something totally different was happening at the same time in reality. For example when in reality Cypher was talking to Neo and one would might think that Cypher might just be another friend Neo can depend on to help fight this long war. However in the matrix Cypher was then portrayed talking to Agent Smith arranging a deal to Neo and the team’s downfall. The plot in this movie was very complex however with the order that it was placed with each scene and it going from scene to scene worked perfectly. So I would conclude that The Matrix directed by Andy and Lana Wachowski  was a good and entertaining use of plot segmentation and I liked seeing it come together.