Neo’s headaches are as strong as hurricanes. They knock on the temples, they go boom boom. They signal an oncoming storm of visions & premonitions sedated / fueled by the most famous blue pill after Viagra. Guys, here we go again. The technological abyss brings humanity to the crossroads between the gray everyday existence and the virtual reality of the Matrix program. In a world that travels on the memory-nostalgia track to remove uncertainty and guilt, could not miss Matrix Resurrections, fourth segment of a serial that at the time opened the door toultra-reality, indicated a winning style to a generation of hi-tech lovers and it was proposed, through the mouth of its authors, as a transgender allegory.
Matrix Revolution, the third chapter, was to be the tombstone of the saga started in 1999 by the then Wachowski brothers, Andy and Larry, now Wachowski sisters, Lana and Lilly. Never again, this was the proclamation of the time. Pinocchio could not have done better. For years there has been talk of nothing but resuming the old project and give a new cut to the shiny-black raincoat of Keanu Reeves, orphan of the most important role of his career as a surfer in Hollywood.
A delay on production rights has held back the initiative. With the video game continuing to thrive, the temptation to try again for Warner’s thinking heads was too strong. Lana Wachowski rules the original cast: besides Revees, I’m in the game Carrie-Anne Moss, Jada Pinckett Smith, Lambert Wilson. Among the novelties, the Indian star Priyanka Chopra and Christina Ricci. Filming began in total top secret on February 4, 2020 in San Francisco, suspended in the spring for Covid and then completed between Chicago and the German Babelsberg Studios.
Thomas Anderson / Neo (Reeves) not dead but wanders like a ghost in a reality deformed by space-time loops and he cannot free himself from the hallucinations that have sent his brain to jelly. He has forgotten that he is the Chosen One, fears he will go mad and tells the shrink everything.
However, his memories have faded, so much so that when he finds himself again face to face with Trinity (Carrie-Ann Moss) doesn’t seem to recognize her. He must find a new balance between what his eyes see, appearances, and the hidden reality that refers to alternative dimensions. For this he puts his head back into the Matrix program and pushes himself back into the rabbit hole. The sleeping hero no longer wants to fight. Trinity once again the lighthouse in the fog: praise to female foresight and a tribute to #metoo by a saga that cannot give up the dominant role of its male protagonist.
Lana Wachowski updates the subject by favoring the psychoanalytic side, metatextual, hallucinated. Matrix Resurrections darker, more tangled, more labyrinthine than its precedents. A kind of digital brown glac. The idea of a story governed by the algorithm. But almost three hours of winged adventure are not enough to restore the miraculous balance of the past. The screenplay by Lana Wachowski, David Mitchell, Aleksander Hemon. The first three chapters of the franchise they grossed over a billion dollars worldwide, took Oscars and jolted those in love with hi-tech cinema. Keanu Revees floats in the show like a fish in a pot. The charm of Neo, alpha male from videogames, thrives on jolts and he adapts by following the original path with diligence.
MATRIX RESURRECTIONS di Lana Wachowski
(Usa, 2021, duration 148 ‘)
con Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Priyanka Chopra, Jessica Henwick, Laurence Fishburne, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff
Rating: *** out of 5 (for nostalgia)
In cinemas from January 1, 2022
January 1, 2022 | 07:41
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