Repeat
Decades have passed since the heroic sacrifice of Neo (Keanu Reeves), which was to end the war between humans and machines. The system seems to have undergone a hard reset and those stuck in it are back to square one. The Chosen One is locked in the simulation code again – he functions as Thomas Anderson, no longer a serial programmer / hacker, but a recognized developer of immersive video games. He is kept in check by corporate routine, and all manifestations of inquisitiveness and attempts to search for anomalies in the surrounding “reality”, as well as the flashes of his past life that haunt him from time to time, are suppressed by cyclical sessions with a therapist (Neil Patrick Harris), who in addition to cold psychological analysis regularly provides the patient with prescriptions for horse doses of the blue pill. On the other side of the link, however, there is a group of conscious supporters of the revolution,
Source: ign.com
Re-evaluation
When asked about the possibility of continuing their loudest work, the Wachowski sisters consistently declined, arguing that they included a complete, closed story in the Matrix trilogy. The label, however, had other plans – seeing the success of various reboots , reboots and returns after years of successive slightly dusted brands, it wanted to have another juicy nostalgic bite in its portfolio. The green light of the fourth part of The Matrix was therefore given to the blind – regardless of whether the creators decide to get involved in the project. Without waiting for those to be identified, the studio was ready to hire Zak Penn ( Player One , Free Guy). Then the older sister, Lana, entered the game. The result is a film made somewhat… out of spite. Anyway, the studio is picked up by name. The main source of the plot is the fictional iteration of the Wachowski franchise; as part of the auto-thematic ploy, Neo (or Anderson) is responsible for the game under the title, of course, The Matrix– a quasi-autobiographical title that has become a worldwide phenomenon. Forced by greedy shareholders at Warner Bros. combat task – creating a box-office continuation – results not only in hours of meetings of a young, dynamic team, breaking down the original trilogy into its first parts (the keywords are “freshness” and “originality”, remember this if you ever have to work on the fourth part of anything), but also Anderson’s nervous breakdown. The protagonist, representing the voice of the Wachowski sisters here, is well aware of the creative futility of reviving the brand after many years. The director adopts a strategy closer to Lynch’s deconstruction and destruction of the idea of rebooting from Twin Peaks: The Return. rather than numerous sentimental tributes pumped with delight by Fabryka Dreów.
According to the rules governing the Hollywood reheating of chops, many things seem familiar in The Resurrections . The very outline of the plot, stripped of the self-referential rash, resembles a mirror image of Neo’s path in the first part of The Matrix . Familiar places appear, faces (although some gain slightly refreshed “skins”) and gadgets, iconic issues arise (even if the circumstances suggest an original mockery), and the screenings are interwoven with copies of the original trilogy. Wachowski openly distances himself from the almost religious cult that the Matrix has developedwhile placing on the “light side of the force” the followers who stand behind the messiah / creator. Instead of another bombastic revolution, however, it has a perverse, perhaps less effective, but essentially logical evolution of the fabric of the created reality – the world (both ours and the one presented) went forward and adapted to what the story of the virtual Chosen had brought with it. Returning to the source is simply not possible; therefore, dynamic outbursts and skirmishes (agreed at the creative meeting as an important point for checking off) do not have a chance to recreate the joyful feeling of communing with something innovative and fresh, and the intellectual load, though no less current, will seem secondary. Because even in his criticism of the pop-culture milling of famous brands, which is the greatest valueResurrection , Wachowski – fully aware of it – does not say anything that would not have been signaled by others before.
Source: goodmorningamerica.com
Reincarnation
So it seems that Resurrection achieves a compromise: Wachowski has the opportunity to mock corporate greed in a corporate-funded project for millions of dollars, and the studio got its blockbuster-trinket, even if the creator herself assumed that with this film she would try to slaughter the cult franchise. Practice shows that a potential, equally unnecessary continuation – if only the decision-makers dream – will arise without the contribution of the original authors. At best, they will just “keep some kids busy” again for a while …
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