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The first thirty minutes or so was a good short film, followed by yet another Matrix sequel. The film shares a lot with Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Gremlins 2, Alien 4, and Spaceballs but I'm not sure it even has the guts of the latter in terms of auto-critical self awareness.
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VROOM VROOM posted:The action within the Matrix is not real, we are past that. Neo spends the movie casually doing cool Matrix things instead of harder, cooler martial arts things, and then at the end he does a big cool Matrix thing and it nearly gets them killed. The One awakens and immediately literally says "Bye" and flies out of the cool action entirely. "The action was bad on purpose" is hardly a ringing endorsement.
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Dec 28, 2021 02:01
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VROOM VROOM posted:the strawberry is Cypher's steak. This much is correct, the rest is backwards. Would Cypher have asked to be plugged back in if reality outside of the Matrix was more than raves and gruel? Also, the strawberry suggests that Mouse's ponderings about cereal flavors and chicken was probably wrong; if working plant DNA can be reverse engineered from a simulation in the Matrix, then the rest was probably just as carefully simulated too.
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Dec 30, 2021 06:11
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VROOM VROOM posted:The Matrix is not a computer simulation; the Matrix is control. The comforts of Io are the result of their acceptance of the existence of the Matrix and their refusal to liberate those still trapped by it. After Neo escapes to go rescue Trinity, Niobe admits to being scared of losing what they have as a result of disrupting the status quo (but also as Freya notes she is grateful that the crew of the Mnemosyne took the leap that she has been too scared to - very appropriate that the ship named after the goddess of memory is the one to remind Niobe of the fighting spirit that she had forgotten). The strawberry being derived from Matrix code is just a particularly on-the-nose representation of this. They're "quite excited about the blueberries" while people are still trapped in the Matrix, and so on. Also the strawberry is genetically engineered beyond its retro-conversion from Matrix code, so it's hardly a reclaiming of the original, more of a tempting illusion if anything. The first film is about as explicit as it can get that many people would not prefer a life of living in the sewers eating gruel.
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Dec 30, 2021 16:49
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The movie spends what, two or three minutes total showing Trinity's family? And always in the context of them getting in the way of her reuniting with Neo. It's wildly different than the way Jupiter Ascending portrays Mila Kunis's character's family, where there's a sense of her character's genuine love for a group of people. Trinity's eFamily is all social obligation by contrast; it removes any actual stakes there might been in her making the choice to abandon them.
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Dec 31, 2021 00:34
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lunar detritus posted:"Women stop being people after having kids" that's something society believes and strictly enforces. What a surprise that a dude's misery is depicted different from a woman's. Imagine a movie where there was something approaching equity in depicting their misery instead of Trinity getting short changed. checkplease posted:I think some of us are just approaching the kids and Trinity scenes differently. For myself at least, the kids are more symbolic as a means to control and limit her just as in real life where women are often expected to sacrifice their careers for domestic duties. The kids and her husband being hollow shells that only exist for plot functions is something that actively undermines the story. It makes Trinity seem like a chump for being fooled, compared to the more elaborately staged (and presented) life for Neo.
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Jan 2, 2022 02:49
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Why not? Neo had official McFarlane toys on his desk.
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Jan 5, 2022 05:37
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Presumably, the game features at least one scene of Trinity on a motorcycle, which would be an appropriate jumping off point for "Tiffany" to see her self in the narrative as a woman who spends most of her day working on or riding motorcycles.
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Sounds like a good way to go insane.
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