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Date Posted: 16:51:25 01/13/04 Tue
Author: Tatiana Matos
Subject: Task 12

Reading 12: The Matrix

ORACLE
Just come on in.

INT. KITCHEN

An OLD WOMAN is huddled beside the oven, peering inside
through a cracked door.

NEO
Hello?

ORACLE (OLD WOMAN)
I know. You're Neo. Be right with
you.

NEO
You're the Oracle?

ORACLE
Bingo. Not quite what you were
expecting, right? I got to say I
love seeing you non-believers.
Always a pip. Almost done. Smell
good, don't they?

NEO
Yeah.

ORACLE
I'd ask you to sit down, but you're
not going to anyway. And don't
worry about the vase.

NEO
What vase?

He turns to look around and his elbow knocks a VASE from
the table. It BREAKS against the linoleum floor.

ORACLE
That vase.

NEO
Shit, I'm sorry.

She pulls out a tray of chocolate chip cookies and turns.
She is an older woman, wearing big oven mitts, comfortable
slacks and a print blouse. She looks like someone's
grandma.

ORACLE
I said don't worry about it. I'll
get one of my kids to fix it.

NEO
How did you know...?

She sets the cookie tray on a wooden hot pad.

ORACLE
What's really going to bake your
noodle later on is, would you still
have broken it if I hadn't said
anything.

Smiling, she lights a cigarette.

ORACLE
You're cuter than I thought. I see
why she likes you.

NEO
Who?

ORACLE
Not too bright though.

She winks.

ORACLE
You know why Morpheus brought you to
see me?

He nods.

ORACLE
So? What do you think? You think
you're the One?

NEO
Honestly? I don't know.

She gestures to a wooden plaque, the kind every kitchen
has, except that the words are in Latin.

ORACLE
You know what that means? It's
Latin. Means, 'Know Thyself'. I'm
gonna let you in on a little secret.
Being the One is just like being in
love. Nobody can tell you you're in
love. You just know it. Through
and through. Balls to bones.

She puts her cigarette down.

ORACLE
Well, I better have a look at you.

She widens his eyes, checks his ears, then feels the
glands in his neck.

ORACLE
Open your mouth. Say 'ahh'.

She nods then looks at his palms.

ORACLE
Okay, now I'm supposed to say,
'Hmmm, that's interesting but...'
Then you say --

NEO
But what?

ORACLE
But you already know what I'm going
to tell you.

NEO
I'm not the One.

ORACLE
Sorry, kid. You got the gift but
looks like you're waiting for
something.

NEO
What?

ORACLE
Your next life, maybe. Who knows.
That's how these things go.

Neo almost has to laugh.

ORACLE
What's funny?

NEO
Morpheus. He almost had me
convinced.

ORACLE
I know. Poor Morpheus. Without him
we are lost. We will never find the
One.

NEO
What do you mean, without him?

The Oracle takes a long drag, regarding Neo with the eyes
of a Sphinx.

ORACLE
Are you sure you want to hear this?

Neo nods.

ORACLE
Morpheus believes in you, Neo and no
one, not you or even me can convince
him otherwise. He believes it so
blindly that he's going to sacrifice
his life to save yours.

NEO
What?

ORACLE
You're going to have to make a final
choice. In one hand, you will have
Morpheus' life. In the other hand,
you will have your own. One of you
is going to die. Which one, will be
up to you.

Neo can't breathe.

ORACLE
I'm sorry, kiddo. I really am. You
have a good soul and I hate giving
good people bad news. But don't
worry, as soon as you walk outside
that door, you'll start feeling
better. You'll remember that you
don't believe any of this fate crap.
You're in control of your own life,
remember?

He tries to nod as she reaches for the tray of cookies.

ORACLE
Here, take a cookie. I promise by
the time you're done eating it,
you'll feel right as rain.

Neo takes a cookie, the tightness in his chest slowly
beginning to fade.

-----------------------------------------------------

Writing 12

The film I recommend is The Sixth Sense.It is a very inteligent film with lots of clues about the end of the film but at the same time it don't let the audience predict what is going to happen. From my point of view it is one of the best suspense films.

The film I don't recommend is American Beauty. This film is terrible I don't know why but I did not like it, I think it does not have a good history.

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