How do I become a Netflix tagger?

This is a question for me and not necessarily you.

My first tag is The Matrix. I grew up watching it over and over again as a kid. I even had the VHS of the first movie. I knew everything about it. Every character and where they appeared. Everything. I even have a replica of the gun at home.

I know the movie is awesome and it will forever hold a special place in my heart. I know the creators are awesome as well. Everything about it is great.

After seeing The Matrix, I started to notice that many other people seemed to think the same thing I did about it. So I became a The Matrix tagger. After the third or fourth time I said it, I thought I would take a moment and review the movie again with a new perspective. It was an eye-opener. For one, there are more plot holes in it than in Star Wars. Second, there are way more characters than there were in the Star Wars movies.

And then there's this: there are no characters. The only real characters we see in the movie are the ones inside the Matrix. We see Neo and Trinity in the movie, but we never see their names. And all the characters in the movie are just as disposable as each other. There is no difference between one character and the next. We know nothing about any of them except what they represent in the movie.

Let's look at this from a little bit of a different perspective. When you go to a movie theater, you enter into a magical experience. The lights dim, you sit in the dark, you watch the movie. But that is just a single view of the movie. The Matrix is made of thousands of views, each one a different angle of the story. One viewer, one set of eyes.

But instead of multiple views, it is just one. The entire movie is being watched at once. And it is all happening in real time. There are no breaks in the action. You are watching a video. You are watching someone else watching a video. You are watching the movie happen. It is all happening at the same time.

How does that work? It doesn't really matter. You can watch it as one long stream of images. Or you can watch it as a series of scenes.

Can you visit Netflix headquarters?

Of all the people I know, you're probably the only one that hasn't had the privilege of visiting Netflix headquarters -- the company's Santa Monica California home, that is.

But this coming Monday, February 8, you'll be able to get an up-close-and-personal look at what happens behind those doors, thanks to a docu-series called "What happened at Netflix?" that will premiere at Sundance on Feb. 9.

From Sundance Online: A series by acclaimed documentarian Alex Gibney and produced in conjunction with SundanceTV, "What Happened at Netflix" brings viewers behind the scenes at the digital media firm's offices in Southern California's Century City area. A look at the technology that underlies the company's streaming video platform, plus conversations with founders Reed Hastings and Mark Urkov about their work and their philosophy of giving creative control to employees.

Hastings, the CEO who founded Netflix as part of a company-wide effort to make the Internet more efficient and productive, talks in detail about the company's history, current strategy and vision for future projects. This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.

While some might think Netflix's success might have been the result of luck, a lot of it was the hard work of Hastings himself (who also produced the docu-series) and then-employees like Reed Riemenschneider. It was Riemenschneider, whose original idea for the service was to compete with Blockbuster, that first met Hastings while watching porn together at a video store, who started the company's first office in the garage of Hastings' house when Netflix was still known as Silicon Valley Video Company (later renamed the Video Software Distribution System after losing ground to Blockbuster). In the series, Riemenschneider explains his strategy to the filmmakers in detail and the filmmakers in turn use clips to show just how far they took the now very successful Netflix. Hastings was originally slated to help write the series but couldn't fit the schedule in; he wrote instead a letter that came out at the end of the series, written before the cameras had even started rolling.