A Detective Story
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A Detective Story is an animated short film, part of The Animatrix series, set in the universe of The Matrix. Traditional animation is blended with grainy photographic backgrounds to produce a very distinctive style.
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[edit] Episode Summary
"A case to end all cases"
A film noir style film in black-and-white, set in an unnamed city in some manner of alternate history, it follows the story of a down-on-his-luck private detective who receives an anonymous phone call to search for a hacker that goes by the alias "Trinity". The aesthetic of the piece is highly Art Deco and thirties-retro, with the computers blended with typewriters to give it an old-fashioned yet modern feel (compare Terry Gilliam's Brazil), and the phones using a rotary-dial system. The private detective Ash traces down the hacker Trinity learning that other detectives have failed in the same task before him, one had committed suicide, one had gone missing, and one has gone insane.
Eventually Ash finds Trinity after deducing that he should communicate using phrases and facts from Lewis Carroll's Alice books. She proposes a meeting he successfully finds the location. At the meeting she removes a "bug" from his eye, planted by agents earlier in one of his "dreams." Agents appear and attempt to apprehend Trinity. An agent attempts to take Ash's body, forcing Trinity to shoot him in order to prevent the agent from appearing and taking over his body. While Ash is wounded, he and Trinity bid their farewells with no hard feelings. Trinity escapes. Agents enter the car to find Ash, who points a gun at them while looking in the other direction and lighting a cigarette. The story's resolution is left intentionally open-ended, although if the Agents are as powerful as their counterparts in the Matrix trilogy, then Ash would probably have been overpowered and killed.
[edit] Voice actors
- James Arnold Taylor — Ash
- Carrie-Anne Moss — Trinity
- Terrence 'T.C.' Carson — Clarence (as T.C. Carson)
- Matt McKenzie — Agent
[edit] Crew
Written and Directed by: Shinichiro Watanabe
The director and writer, Shinichiro Watanabe, is known for also writing and directing the Cowboy Bebop anime series and movie. He also directed the Animatrix short animated film Kid's Story.
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| The Works of Shinichiro Watanabe
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| TV series:Macross Plus | Cowboy Bebop | Samurai Champloo Films: Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door Short films:A Detective Story | Kid's Story | |||
