Beyond (The Animatrix)

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The kids investigate the lot.

Beyond is a short film that is one of nine Animatrix films. Beyond is directed by Koji Morimoto (of Akira fame).

[edit] Plot synopsis

The machines locate the error. The white dots are the children, with Yoko having just jumped the wall in the lower left of the courtyard.

The anomaly's location is replaced.

Beyond starts with a teenage girl, Yoko, looking for her cat Yuki. While asking around the neighborhood, indicatively somewhere in Japan, she meets some younger boys. One of them tells her Yuki is over at the haunted house, and he invites her to come to see it.

The kids have stumbled across an amalgamation of anomalies within an old, broken building, They have learned to exploit the glitch in the Matrix for their own enjoyment, through several areas which seem to defy real world physics: glass bottles reassemble after being shattered, rain falls from a sunny sky, broken lightbulbs that flicker briefly (during which they seem perfectly intact), a door which opens to nothingness, shadows that do not align with the physical origin, and a feather that moves peculiarly through the air. There is a large open space in the middle where they take turns jumping off a high point, freefalling towards the ground yet somehow stopping just inches before impact; this proves amusing and they seem unbothered by the inherent strangeness.

Throughout the film, short sequences show that the agents are aware of the problem in the matrix, and a truck is seen driving on the way to "fix" it. They arrive while the kids are playing, and a team of "rodent exterminators" led by an agent round up the kids and throw them out. The story ends when the girl and the kids are outside of the house the next day, which has turned into a parking lot. The girl spots the floating can, one of the previous glitches, which is no longer floating. She picks it up and cuts her finger on the opened lid of the can, blood dripping. The kids then find the parking lot boring and find something else to do.

[edit] Voice actors

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• Hedy Burress — Yoko
• Pamela Segall — Manabu
• Kath Soucie — Pudgy/Masa/Sara
• Tara Strong — Misha
• Matt McKenzie — Agent
• Dwight Schultz — Townsperson/Police Officer/Exterminators
• Tress MacNeille — Housewife/Kenny
• Jill Talley — Townsperson
• Jack Fletcher — Townsperson
• Julia Fletcher — Townsperson

[edit] See also

• Simulated reality
• Dennō Coil