It includes about hirty years in his life, from his teen years as a Brooklyn Irish neighborhood kid to maturity as an adult gangster, covering the years from the 1950s to the drug-saturated 1970s when married to wife Karen (Lorraine Bracco).[Note: It was ironic that the success of the nuns"" mission was dependent upon a number of flimsy premises: he donation of the ex-bordello palace for the convent, the services of a young child interpreter, the bribery of the locals to attend, and the nuns"" own ill-suited lack of skills to survive in the demanding environment.I""ll pick the young lady for you - - and it won""t be a girl with a father like that.After his father has left, Willie removes his nightshirt, revealing that he still intends to rendezvous with Mary - he has dressed himself in his father""s oversized clothing." A search had already commenced for him.Introduction of Thomas Anderson (Alter-Ego Neo):The film then introduced the main character - an individual who was living two lives:Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves), a computer programmer working for a software company (Metacortex), a techie slackerNeo (""Neo"" was Thomas Anderson""s hacker alias, an anagram for his designation as the "One"), a computer hackerIn the year 1999, computer programmer-hacker Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves), with screen-name alias Neo, was asleep in front of his computer in his cluttered apartment, Room 101.