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#301 - The Desert of the Real (Patreon)

Published:
2022-01-17 22:03:38
Edited:
2022-01-17 22:34:04
Imported:
2024-06

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In a cinematic landscape glutted with reboots and cinematic universes, Lana Wachowski's THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS (2021) is unique: an unnecessary sequel that knows it, and feels ambivalent about itself. We discuss this divisive film's self-reflective streak, and the many ways it tweaks the metaphors and idioms that became so iconic in 1999.

"What May Have Been" by Aaron Thorpe - https://spacelight.substack.com/p/what-may-have-been

"Boringly postmodern and an ideological fantasy" by Slavoj Žižek - https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-muddle-not-a-movie-slavoj-i-ek-reviews-matrix-resurrections

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Ekaterina Sedia

I wonder if you had a chance to watch The Landscapers. It’s an interesting take on constructed reality but kind of an obverse to franchise cultural model — it is intensely personal in its image of two people who build a world out of movie memorabilia, to completely sever themselves from reality and dominant cultural narratives.

Elizabeth Havens

As someone who loves every movie in the Matrix trilogy, the thing I really enjoyed about Resurrections (which I do agree is generally more interesting to think about than to actually watch) is how it feels like Lana Wachowski reclaiming her love for the story her and her sister created. Going from the pure disgust for corporations, buzzwords, think pieces, and all the fans who think they're so cool that is the first half to the more pure "Neo really needs Trinity (and she needs him) to be completely himself" second half feels like a defiant stance from Lana that a corporation (or alt-right fans with their "redpilled") can never fully take away the Matrix and those characters away from her.