animatrix: world record

one of the most stylized of the series, this short film features an athlete running a race, intercut with flashes of his life leading up to the race. as he is racing he starts to become self aware of the matrix. as he realizes that he is actually in a computer program a bunch of agents show up and force him back into the programming. his legs give out and he looses the race, but he also knows what is actually going on. this one is one of the most interesting ones to me, it does a great job of showing how the machines are working against us to make sure humans stay put inside of the construct that they made for them. a glimpse into the decisions that are made between neo and the machines at the end of the third film. this gives an idea of what neo and the people in zion are fighting for.