Trying to get back into writing a little post everyday. This next year I'm going to need to up/maintain my writing game. Let's make this a career, baby! Today, I have a MLog.
**SPOILERS**
THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS
2021
Directed by: Lana Wachowski
Written by: Lana Wachowski, David Mitchell, Aleksander Hemon
Watched: 12/23/21
Matrix Resurrections came out almost twenty years after the original Matrix trilogy. Neo and Trinity are back in the Matrix, contained in special pods. Neo – Thomas Anderson – is a game writer/developer for “The Matrix.” Agent Smith (now played by Jonathan Groff) is Neo’s business partner. We find out that Morpheus (now played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) was originally an agent who can appear in the real world by using a swarm of nanobots. Trinity’s got a husband and children. Her name in this new Matrix is Tiffany. Neo and Trinity see each other in a coffee shop they both frequent. They’re drawn to each other, but Tiffany’s life – her husband and sons – get in the way. (Although honestly not that much.) Zion is gone, but the humans have established a new home with the help of sentients called Io. They’ve been growing real strawberries by reverse engineering the Matrix to create actual DNA. Niobe, the leader, doesn’t want the team rescuing Trinity (after they’ve gotten Neo out) because she doesn’t want to risk Io, to risk her strawberries. They go anyway, and they get Trinity out. Smith comes to help them, for some reason. And Trinity picks the blue pill. Together, Neo and Trinity can fly – whereas Neo couldn’t on his own. The One is really the Two.
I liked early on in the film, when the game designers of The Matrix were discussing what was needed for “The Matrix 4.” There were also all these sequences that were layered over the previous three movies, either by cutting back to previous footage or, at one point, projecting the footage from the previous movies over the action taking place by the current actors. As soon as the actual storyline kicked in – them having to save Trinity – it got less interesting. That part felt perfunctory, like somebody had said – well, we need an actual story here somewhere. But the story wasn’t very good, and the analyst – the big bad – didn’t really do anything bad that I can remember, and Smith switches sides for no discernable reason. There’s a quote I liked: “The key to it all? You and her. Quietly yearning for what you don’t have…while dreading losing what you do.” The analyst is explaining, there, how he’s kept Neo and Trinity contained (stuck) in the Matrix. I thought it was a good description of how I feel a lot of the time. An equally powerful yearning and fear, creating a deadlock.
There’s a good article about it in the Hidustan Times: “In a fabulous scene (the film’s best scenes revolve around ideas and dialogue; the action is lacklustre), the Analyst tells Neo how in the latest matrix, the machines deliberately trigger human minds to keep them in a perpetual loop of fear and desire so as to make them produce more energy.” Social media. Here it is again, “He says that “zero resistance” is the best part and that for 99% of humanity, the definition of reality is “quietly yearning for what you don't have, while dreading losing what you do”. And a little bit more (I really like this article ) “The Analyst is talking about our continuous desire to escape power structures (capitalism, patriarchy, caste system, so on) while benefitting from the same structures.”
The interesting parts were interesting! The parts that were trying to make it a big sci-fi blockbuster like people want and expect fell flat. Giving it a score in the middle.
Rating: ★★★
2021
Directed by: Lana Wachowski
Written by: Lana Wachowski, David Mitchell, Aleksander Hemon
Watched: 12/23/21
Matrix Resurrections came out almost twenty years after the original Matrix trilogy. Neo and Trinity are back in the Matrix, contained in special pods. Neo – Thomas Anderson – is a game writer/developer for “The Matrix.” Agent Smith (now played by Jonathan Groff) is Neo’s business partner. We find out that Morpheus (now played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) was originally an agent who can appear in the real world by using a swarm of nanobots. Trinity’s got a husband and children. Her name in this new Matrix is Tiffany. Neo and Trinity see each other in a coffee shop they both frequent. They’re drawn to each other, but Tiffany’s life – her husband and sons – get in the way. (Although honestly not that much.) Zion is gone, but the humans have established a new home with the help of sentients called Io. They’ve been growing real strawberries by reverse engineering the Matrix to create actual DNA. Niobe, the leader, doesn’t want the team rescuing Trinity (after they’ve gotten Neo out) because she doesn’t want to risk Io, to risk her strawberries. They go anyway, and they get Trinity out. Smith comes to help them, for some reason. And Trinity picks the blue pill. Together, Neo and Trinity can fly – whereas Neo couldn’t on his own. The One is really the Two.
I liked early on in the film, when the game designers of The Matrix were discussing what was needed for “The Matrix 4.” There were also all these sequences that were layered over the previous three movies, either by cutting back to previous footage or, at one point, projecting the footage from the previous movies over the action taking place by the current actors. As soon as the actual storyline kicked in – them having to save Trinity – it got less interesting. That part felt perfunctory, like somebody had said – well, we need an actual story here somewhere. But the story wasn’t very good, and the analyst – the big bad – didn’t really do anything bad that I can remember, and Smith switches sides for no discernable reason. There’s a quote I liked: “The key to it all? You and her. Quietly yearning for what you don’t have…while dreading losing what you do.” The analyst is explaining, there, how he’s kept Neo and Trinity contained (stuck) in the Matrix. I thought it was a good description of how I feel a lot of the time. An equally powerful yearning and fear, creating a deadlock.
There’s a good article about it in the Hidustan Times: “In a fabulous scene (the film’s best scenes revolve around ideas and dialogue; the action is lacklustre), the Analyst tells Neo how in the latest matrix, the machines deliberately trigger human minds to keep them in a perpetual loop of fear and desire so as to make them produce more energy.” Social media. Here it is again, “He says that “zero resistance” is the best part and that for 99% of humanity, the definition of reality is “quietly yearning for what you don't have, while dreading losing what you do”. And a little bit more (I really like this article ) “The Analyst is talking about our continuous desire to escape power structures (capitalism, patriarchy, caste system, so on) while benefitting from the same structures.”
The interesting parts were interesting! The parts that were trying to make it a big sci-fi blockbuster like people want and expect fell flat. Giving it a score in the middle.
Rating: ★★★
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