Visual Analysis (The Matrix and the Real World)

Trying to understand the real world is what it makes people more knowledgeable about their surroundings. And even  living ten decades, this time is not enough to comprehend what is real and isn't. Many debates out there allows people to question about themselves and facts about what if there is not real world. In fact, arguments about reality and unreal events have been used in philosophical analysis which allows one criticize surreal moments experienced. A movie that has been used in to analyze metaphors  and philosophy is the movie 'The Matrix,'  which is a 1999 American-Australian science fiction action film written and directed by The Washowski Brothers.

The visual analysis in this movie focus on the five modes of communication or the multimodality of communication:

Visual Mode: The directors who stamped this film bring the audience attention with visual modes that includes color, layout, style, size, perceptive. These visual modes persuades someone's feeling and entertain among other things. For instance, the colors themes used in this dominates many scenes in the movie. The color black, green, blue, and red  are the most used during the movie which are seen in moments of action, suspense, drama, romance, and so on. Most of the layouts of the movie seems to have digital arrangements which allows the art or process of the graphic design of it. Some other layouts seems to be arranged in real places such as inside and outside scenarios. Another visual mode is the visual style of the movie because draws on its creators' admiration for Japanese animation traditions. These stylistic elements include certain modes of framing and lighting, along with an emphasis on violence. In addition, the movie contains visual size which is the angle a viewed object subtends at the eye. For instance, the visual size of the "bullet time" effect was created for the film. In this scene, many physical cameras were positioned in a 360 degree framework in order to record the fractions of each frame simulated. Finally, the visual perceptive of some parts of the movie seems to have fast movements which objects appear to the eye based on spatial attributes. This type of visual perspective persuades the audience to be more involve in the visual mode of it.

Gestural Mode: Some of the body language seen in this movie comes from martial arts. For instance, after Neo undergoes extensive mental training, Morpheus tells Neo: "Show me." This scene shows cool parts where professional martial arts are demonstrated by professionals actors. Another gesture mode shown in the movie is when Neo demonstrates confusion before and right after he knows the real world. The body language Neo presents almost at the end of the movie seem to be more confident and secure. Most of the characters of the movie tend to use face-to-face conversations which is important for the plot of the movie. Here's a video clip of my favorite interaction between people in this movie.

 
Spatial Mode: It is a bit difficult to understand the organization of the movie the fist time the audience watches the movie, but after seen it several times, one deducts how the movie has been arranged.The spacial mode of this movie set in the year 2199 and beginning of the 21th century. There are two physical spaces: the matrix and the real world. According to the writers of the movie, the matrix is everything, the air we breath, the things we see, everything we feel. On the other hand, the matrix set in 2199, which according to the writers is what is known as the real world; a world that it was destroyed by the war between humans and machines.

Aural Mode: The sounds effects of this movie are known as the best sounds effects in the film industry. Some of the sounds are electronically based and the action of the characters is based off of speed. Some other voices are digitalized, which it brings excitement and mystery to the audience. There are many sounds effects that goes along with moments of actions and suspense which makes this movie to have the best sounds effects.

Linguistic Mode: The linguistic mode in this movie seems to follow metaphorical, mythological and philosophical frameworks. The allegory is related to Plato's theory of Forms which holds that the true essence of an object is not what we perceive with our senses, but rather its quality, and that most people perceive only the shadow of the object and are thus confined to false perception.