The Second Renaissance Part I

It was interesting that it was short and animated at the same time. The Matrix is a series of movies with a very interesting subject and I love it. I already knew about this subject, but I had never watched this animation. It was good.

Ever wonder exactly HOW the machines managed to seize the planet and enslave the human race? This Animatrix short details how humans created robots to do their worst jobs for them. Basically it's a metaphor for a third-world divide. But when a single robot rebels political opinion of the machines turns sour and they are banished to their city, where their economy thrives, turning the human world into the new third-world. Oh, the irony.

It's a fascinating short and really makes you think if whether or not the soul is purely a biological thing, or if a sentient robot can earn one too, kinda like Bicentennial Man.

This short film forms part of the backstory of the Matrix universe. It shows a lot of violent imagery inspired by historical atrocities to show that humans were evil and shortsighted in their treatment of the robots. At times it went too far in this direction and the humans seemed unrealistically evil and made ridiculous decisions. A single robot kills its owner so the humans try to destroy every robot in existence, even though that is their entire labour force? Could they not have just done a product recall or software update? The story doesn't make a lot of sense but it was well made.

A really strong short with strong parallels and human history.

This is as always a great short to watch. The Animatrix is no doubt a mixed bag, but I think most can agree on, this is one of the better once. With an interesting story, strong imagery and art style this tells the tails of the rise of the machines, making parallels to human history and a warning that history could repeat itself that only feels more and more relevant with time.

Humans have developed robots to do their bedding, but AI learns to think, and starts asking questions about the world it´s in.

The animation can seem a bit stocky at times, but it´s rather beautiful with subtle art style changes that makes special imagery stand even more out.

The story is rather basic but told well. The parallels to earlier human history is strong and creates a strong story about a subject we might need to think about in our lifetime.

The usage of AI robots are paralleled with human atrocities throughout time. Slavery, genocide, dehumanization, racism, xenophobia and the list goes on.

The voice over is rather pleasant and tells the story in a good tempo. The story feels logical in it´s steps towards it´s ending. The different escalation and evolutions of the situations feel like natural continuations of each other.

The Second renaissance part 1 is a strong short mostly weighted down by it not being a complete story. True, you could see the second part as a natural extension and judge them as a whole, but looking at it by just itself, it ends on a rather weird note that doesn't lead naturally to a part 2.

Brilliant visualisation. Love to see a full length version by the animators.