Kid's Story

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Kid's Story is one of 9 short films in The Animatrix series that reveals more about the world of The Matrix. It was written by the Wachowski brothers and directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, with animation and production design by Studio 4°C, Tokyo.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Voice actors 3 Music 4 Trivia 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Plot

The Kid gets a personal invitation from Neo, The One, to escape The Matrix. The following day, he is chased through his high school by a band of Agents, and ultimately is cornered on the roof. He asserts his faith in Neo, and throws himself from the roof - it promptly cuts to his funeral. The short fades up from black as The Kid awakens in the real world to see Neo and Trinity watching over him. They remark that he has achieved "self substantiation" (removing oneself from the Matrix without external aid), which was considered impossible. However, in both the short itself and The Matrix Reloaded The Kid seems to believe it was Neo's actions, not his own, that saved him.

Self-substantiation is never thoroughly discussed in any part of the series. Dan in the Animatrix short, "World Record" similarly manages to exit the matrix without the use of a Red Pill. In The Matrix, Morpheus speaks of the founder of Zion who freed himself, presumably without external help.

[edit] Voice actors

• Clayton Watson — Michael Karl Popper (The Kid)
• Keanu Reeves — Neo
• Carrie-Anne Moss — Trinity
• John DeMita — Teacher
• Kevin Michael Richardson — Cop (as Kevin M. Richardson)
• James Arnold Taylor — Additional Voice

[edit] Music

• Opening: Who am I (Peace Orchestra)
• Chase Scene: Masters of the Universe [version played on the album Shango] (Juno Reactor)

[edit] Trivia

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• The school in the film is based on two schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, where filming for The Matrix Reloaded took place: Alameda High School located in Alameda, California, and Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California.
• The teacher in the film is based on the former Vice Principal of Alameda High.
• The main character of this story later appears as a minor character in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions and emerges as the leader of "E Pluribus Neo", a break-away faction from Zion in the The Matrix Online game that takes place after Revolutions.
• This is the only one of the animated shorts contained in "The Animatrix" which Keanu Reaves appears in.
• The protagonist's name, Michael Karl Popper, is an obvious allusion to Austrian philosopher Karl Popper, who rejected the traditional conception of induction, which held that a scientific hypothesis may be verified through the accumulation of confirming observations, arguing instead that scientific hypotheses can at best only be falsified - an ideal fit to the theme of the Matrix.
• The short contains Watanabe's trademark closeup of a character's eye, in this case the kid, while they are falling.

[edit] See also

• Simulated reality

[edit] External links

• An interview with one of people involved in making "Kid's Story"

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