

That had become commonplace in cinema by 1969.īut what happens next is a little more unusual: the viewer’s perspective, which is behind Neo as the first bullet sails towards him, begins to shift. The slow-motion effect of the shot is nothing special.

High up on a rooftop, Keanu Reeves’s Neo faces down an inevitable onslaught of bullets from a sentient program in the body of an agent. In what is arguably The Matrix’s most memorable scene – from a film overflowing with them – Lana and Lilly Wachowski demonstrated an apparent ability to bend the fabric of space and time. That effect is called ‘bullet time’ and it’s the magic behind that iconic bullet-dodging scene. The film not only had the effect of making everyone question reality, but it also expertly executed a particular special effect that The Telegraph argues is the most significant in the history of cinema.

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