I also blogged about this movie here, 365 Days 365 Classics: She Said Movie Review
Matrix Resurrections Movie Review Plus Matrix 1 Memories
Did the trailer give you ideas of seeing the American military as the Red Queen's foot soldiers? How excited were you for this Matrix movie on the scale of zero to ten? Me? 100!
One thing that can be said with confidence is that if Keanu Reeves goes to the Matrix with a dose of Morpheus, there is a certain set of 90s kids that will show up regardless of the content. And the last couple of years have been a season of recaps of the 90s movies and television, the Spiderman movies did a parallel universe tie-in, Sabrina came back in a darker avatar and of course here, Neo will be meeting Trinity in an Alice in the Wonderland universe. Right from the melting mirror scene this bringing together of those two universes was due.
It is as if the movie itself treats the last two Matrix movies as a dream and picks up the thread from the first movie and wakes up from an amnesia where the two characters have been leading a "normal" life having erased the apocalyptic scenes of their past. Neo has not forgotten but considers his past escapades as a game reality. Especially considering that the first movie was talking about a world where Artificial Intelligence was becoming an all pervasive presence is quickly becoming a reality, this movie was due for a reboot.
And so it is the shrink Neo is seeing, Neil Patrick Harris, (perhaps a hookah-smoking caterpillar, or the Cheshire Cat, who quotes a philosophy and disappears,) is called The Analyst, the person who is supposed give you insights into reality is the person who takes you away from it. Mental health concerns are rising all around the world and there is a need for an enquiry into what goes into the making of those anti-depressants and the anxiety pills we are popping!
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Caphernaum Movie Review vs Zozo, these are two Lebanese movies affected by the same politics, but the protagonists belong to different classes. Here is my review of both these movies.