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] Plot synopsis

"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 his gun at them while looking in the other direction and lighting a cigarette. With this apparent no-win situation, the movie ends.

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[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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A Detective Story at the Internet Movie Database

The Works of Shinichiro Watanabe v • d • e
TV series:Macross Plus \| Cowboy Bebop \| Samurai Champloo Films: Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door Short films:A Detective Story \| Kid's Story

The Matrix series
Films	The Matrix \| The Matrix Reloaded \| The Matrix Revolutions
The Animatrix	Final Flight of the Osiris \| The Second Renaissance \| Kid's Story \| Program \| World Record \| Beyond \| A Detective Story \| Matriculated
Soundtracks	The Matrix: Original Motion Picture Score \| The Matrix: Music from the Motion Picture \| The Matrix Reloaded: The Album The Matrix Revolutions: Music From The Motion Picture \| The Animatrix: The Album \| Enter The Matrix: Original Soundtrack From The Videogame
Games	Enter the Matrix \| The Matrix Online \| The Matrix: Path of Neo
Characters	Neo \| Trinity \| Morpheus \| Smith (Agent Smith) \| Captain Mifune \|Agents \| Oracle \| Architect \| Niobe \| Merovingian \| Persephone \| Seraph \| Deus Ex Machina \| Minor human characters \| and machines in the Matrix series">Programs and machines
Locations	The Matrix \| Mega City \| Club Hel \| Mobil Ave \| Zero One (Machine City) \| Zion \| List of ships in the Matrix series
Cast and crew	Wachowski brothers \| Keanu Reeves \| Laurence Fishburne \| Carrie-Anne Moss \| Hugo Weaving \| Jada Pinkett Smith \| Owen Paterson \| John Gaeta \| Geof Darrow \| Steve Skroce
Other topics	Thematic motifs \|Matrix digital rain \| The Matrix character names \| The Matrix Revisited \| The Ultimate Matrix Collection
Related topics	Bullet time \| Cyberpunk \| Digitalism \| The Hero's Journey \| Martial arts film \| Messiahs in fiction \| Virtual reality
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