Review: Matrix Resurrections – with spoilers

“Spoilers, lots of spoilers”

The Matrix was a revolutionary film. This is the least that can be said of the work that still influences the aesthetics of action scenes in cinema. Its sequels were not so well-received, but now a new movie has come to set the record straight and prepare the franchise’s future. Did Matrix Resurrections achieve what it set out to do? Let’s see…

  • Chronostasis — more convincing proof that we live in the Matrix
  • #notMyMorpheus (Credit: Warner Brothers Corporate Overlords)

    Matrix is ​​a film that works for a very simple reason: Just like ogres and onions, The Matrix has layers. It can be for many people, in the definition of the late José Wilker, a movie where a little guy learns to fight faster, or it can be a huge discussion about life, the universe, free will, destiny, control.

    It’s all there, when Neo asks if he’ll be able to dodge bullets, and Morpheus explains that when he understands he’s the Chosen One, he won’t need to.

    For many people the Matrix is ​​that (Credit: Warner Brothers Corporate Overlords)

    The concept of The Matrix was even taken from the book The City and the Stars, by Arthur Clarke. In history, 2.5 billion years in the future, humanity is reduced to a single city, controlled by machines, which create bodies for human minds stored in the Central Computer. People live hedonistic lives, when they die they go back to the database. From time to time a Unique, an Anomaly is created, the function of this individual is to destabilize society, promoting its growth.

    The big problem of The Matrix: Revolutions neither was to kill Neo, it was the “future” to be stagnant. The promise of peace with the Machines leaves an impression of something incomplete, recalling the dialogue in Watchmen, when Ozymandias says to Dr Manhattan “I did the right thing, didn’t I? Everything worked out in the end” and Jon replies “In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.”

    Morpheus American pimp version of the 70s. (Credit: Warner Brothers)

    A technique of literature is knowing when to finish telling your story. They lived happily ever after is something people pretend to believe if it’s said at the right time. The first Matrix could have been a one-off movie, but everyone would be pissed off for answers. They came, and they were obvious. A lot of people didn’t like it.

    Matrix Resurrections is a kind of soft reboot / retcon that works as a social critic sometimes very heavy handed, Lana Wachowski talks to all the letters; we live in an era of continuations and reboots, we want a loop of family stories, no one leaves their comfort zone.

    The corporations that control entertainment will reinforce this even more . The movie even mentions Warner Brothers by name, she basically says she’s doing the movie thanks as it would be done with or without her. It’s one of the fuck yous

    most beautiful movie since Reth Buttler released “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a Damn” at the end of Gone with the Wind , entailing a fine equivalent to US$100,000 in 2021, gladly paid by the producers.

    Matrix Resurrections – synopsis

    60 years after the end of The Matrix Revolutions, there is a Matrix 2.0, or rather 7.0. When the Matrix 6.0, with Neo and his friends was reset, people started to want to get out of it, this caused a great loss of energy for the machines. A civil war erupted between machines that wanted to keep the Matrix and others that wanted to enslave humans again. These won.

    The new Matrix is ​​more modern, very similar to today’s world, everyone is entertained by their cell phones and tablets, the daily routine -day is assuaged with the distractions we all know.

    The old Matrix was a realistic world, but with flaws, eventually people started to feel like they weren’t part of it , that there was something wrong. This time the machines had a brilliant idea, often repeated in Reality. Sometimes the best way to hide a secret is to reinforce the voice of everyone who believes in it.

    During World War II, Hitler built the Atlantic Wall , especially strengthening the Pas-de-Calais region, which is the closest point between the United Kingdom and France. The allies created a top-secret operation, with a corpse dressed as a naval officer carrying plans to invade the Calais region.

    False radio communications were made, networks of fictitious spies informed Berlin that the invasion would be in Calais. Hitler heard what he wanted to hear, and many troops who would have been in Normandy were diverted to the North.

    In the Matrix, it was impossible to get over the feeling that something was wrong. wrong, so what did the Machines do? They created a whole framework to justify that feeling. Neo was resurrected (tech, woah) and reintroduced (woah!) into the Matrix. Was he a video game creator, his biggest success? The trilogy… Matrix.

    The game was a worldwide success, everyone knew Matrix, if anyone had a strange feeling, they associated it with the game, like my dreams strangers with aliens, blame the TV on the History Channel.

    By turning Neo’s story into fiction, he was robbed of his agency. His own doubts were treated like a mental problem, his psychiatrist (Neil Patrick Harris) prescribes blue pills (nothing against. They say.) that keep him stuck in “reality”.

    Today it has. (Credit: Warner Brothers)

    to think that that could really be the original Matrix, and Neo never lived what we live in the other films.

    So we realize that there is a balance in this Matrix. Neo remains obsessed with Trinity, or “Tiffany” as she calls herself in the version. Married, with children. Neo’s partner in the video game company is none other than Agent Smith, or an adapted version of him to serve as a counterpoint and help Neo create the games.

    Neo’s world changes when he encounters Morpheus, but not “the” Morpheus, a version created in a Modal (actually a virtual machine running MatrixOS) running in a loop until Morpheus develops consciousness.

    Along with real-world humans, Morpheus rescues Neo, and we discover that we fans of the original movies are selfish and simple-minded. We settle for Zion, a place where everyone dresses up like beggars and eats baby food as they prepare to face the Machines. Zion was binary.

    In Matrix IV we see the marketing material of Matrix IV (Credit: Warner Brothers)

    In the new city, IO, humans research and improve, not only for war, but mainly to improve the quality of life for everyone. And they live in peace with the Machines, or rather, Synthients, as they prefer to be called. That is, at least the faction that wanted to keep the original Matrix, even suffering from lack of energy.

    Later the Analyst (NPH) explains that in all simulations they tested, when Neo and Trinity ended up together destabilizing the Matrix, but without them they didn’t have enough energy. The presence of the two generated conflict and anguish, strong emotions and yes it doesn’t make much sense, but neither does using people like Duracell.

    The joker, again, is Agent Smith, who hates Neo but hates being put in a loop, with his memories erased, controlled by the Analyst. The mission is now to save Trinity, in a Matrix reprogrammed to remove or at least deeply nerf Neo’s powers.

    The Metaphors, ah, the metaphors

    In a scene Neo faces several Exiles, old programs that have lost their function. Among them, Merovingio, with the appearance of a beggar of those lousy people in Praça é Nossa, disgusted with the new Matrix, with disposable entertainment, everyone connected on their tablets and cell phones, following stories without substance.

    “We had books, songs , movies, we had style, we had conversations, not this beepbeepbeepbeep.”

    If the first Matrix was a criticism of the System, which creates social roles and keeps us in them, Matrix Resurrections is a slap in the face, showing that the people would you like these social roles, it’s much easier to get home from a frustrating job and vent your anger on a video game, a twitter thread, or YouTube comments, than it is to do something.

    Ah, Trinity… (Credit: Warner Brothers)

    The versions of the Matrix that were utopias were a failure. People cannot be happy for long without challenges. Versions where there were only problems, perished as well. The version where we live in eternal home/work loops but we have a place to unload our frustrations, this one has the potential to last forever.

    Goal, but a lot of goal

    Matrix Resurrections is perhaps the most cynical movie I’ve ever seen. In a good way, of course. Marketing meetings are sensational, with millennial executives discussing… Matrix 4. At one point an executive speaks with the most serious face in the world:

    The material in front of you has the result of our group focus research.

    Inside, you’ll find a breakdown. including keyword association

    with the brand.

    The first two are “originality” and “new”, which I think are great things

    to keep in mind when you start working on Matrix 4. And who knows how many others?

    This is how blockbusters are made, with polls, maps, tables and graphs. The contrast is that minutes earlier Neo was having coffee with a co-worker, who was telling him how important The Matrix had been to him, how the philosophical discussions made him see the world differently, how the Matrix was important to millions of people and -you you’re feeling a little bad about buying those books on The Philosophy of the Matrix, right?

    Lana (Lana? LANAAA!!) isn’t afraid to show that Matrix it can be, yes, just a blockbuster with beautiful fight scenes and a very thin story. Bench by a mega-studio.

    Don’t worry, they’re fine, the machines used the code from Battlefield 2042 helicopters (Credit: Warner Brothers)

    The absence of Laurence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving, even not being the Director’s choice, it serves to show that no one is irreplaceable, and at a given moment we see Trinity’s reflection in a mirror, and in that Matrix her image is of a completely different woman.

    She and Neo are externally seen as NPCs, so it took the humans decades before find them, and Neo’s life is that of an NPC. In a magnificent sequence to the sound of White Rabbit , by Jefferson Airplane, Neo lives his loop diary while the game designers discuss Matrix, with some defending that the game is about philosophy, others that it’s anti-capitalist, and at the end one of them says: If you mention The Matrix to anyone in the world, the first thing they’ll remember is… bullet time .

    Lana Wachowski tricked everyone, including Warner Brothers (and Sister Warner). She got a hefty budget to make the first intimate blockbuster action movie in history.

    The Matrix Resurrections is a way for the Matrix to get to know itself. The film is an essay on the Society’s effect on the film, how people view The Matrix, and how having an opinion doesn’t mean it’s the only one, or even the only right one. At no time is it said that A or B is wrong, I don’t think even the creators know what the Matrix is.

    This, of course, generated a lot of division. There are people spewing lava at the film, others tearing up praise. On Rotten Tomatoes there is a rare unanimity between critics and public, placing the film as controversial.

    Vox Populi , Vox Deus Ex Machina (Credit: Internet Reproduction)

    E here, again, the lesson of the film itself is valid: There is no right answer. You can either hate it for not being what you expected, or love it for the same reasons.

    Is it a reboot? Yes, literally the Matrix has been rebooted, altered and updated. We have a new generation of characters, we have a more complex and non-stagnant humanity, at the same time we have fully humans

    gadified in their cocoons, happy with their unhappy lives.

    And like all good reboots, Matrix Resurrections ends exactly like the first movie, with minor changes to make it look original and new.

    And before you ask if there’s a lot of action, yes, there’s a lot of punching and bombing, don’t expect something revolutionary like Bullet Time, of course. This kind of tech revolution happens once a generation, but the fights are good, Trinity uses the Scorpion Kick and in politically correct times it’s comforting to see Neo’s gang happily strafing everyone, even if technically they’re bots with human skins (Agents are expensive to clone).

    The film makes a lot of use of flashbacks, but in images and short phrases, the characters repeat phrases from the original trilogy several times, much to Neo’s amazement, who has to accept that the most important experiences of his life either never happened or happened and were trivialized in a video game, so you should never show Battlefield V to your great-grandfather who fought in WWII.

    Conclusion

    Matrix Resurrections can mean a lot of different things to a lot of people. Some say they liked it because it was with expectations on the ground. I don’t like this Bode in the Room strategy. I assumed I had no idea what to expect, no preconceived ideas.

    It worked, I legitimately liked the movie, I liked the new crew , I liked having my Manichaeism exposed, having never considered a harmonious society between humans and machines -sorry- Synthients.

    I enjoyed seeing Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss once again kicking ass. And Neil Patrick Harris has always made great villains, since the Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.

    Is there room for more movies? Maybe, but at the same time I think the great lesson of this reboot is precisely that the author must know the right time to end the story. Coming full circle, Resurrections ends up with 1999’s Matrix, and that point is perfect for an “And they lived happily ever after.”

    Except if I learned something from this movie, is that the “corporate overlords” will milk this cow until it dries up.

    Quotation:

    4/5 Cats named Deja Vu, as Lana Wachowiski might be a girl but she has a heavy hand for metaphors and references.

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