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Matrix Resurrections: Keanu Reeves is back in the rabbit hole

2021-12-21T18:06:36.006Z


Matrix Resurrections: Keanu Reeves is back in the rabbit hole Created: 12/21/2021Updated: 12/21/2021, 7:03 PM From: Michael Schleicher 18 years after the finale of the “Matrix” trilogy, “Matrix Resurrections” is now coming to cinemas. Again Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss play the leading roles. Read our guaranteed spoiler-free review here: Sometimes a T reveals the difference. In such a cas


Matrix Resurrections: Keanu Reeves is back in the rabbit hole

Created: 12/21/2021Updated: 12/21/2021, 7:03 PM

From: Michael Schleicher

18 years after the finale of the “Matrix” trilogy, “Matrix Resurrections” is now coming to cinemas.

Again Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss play the leading roles.

Read our guaranteed spoiler-free review here:

Sometimes a T reveals the difference.

In such a case, a single, small letter decides what the answer is to the question: Reality or appearance?

"Simulatte" is the name of the café where Thomas Anderson, celebrated developer of video games, spends his breaks.

But if you cross out the Italian “Latte” in the name above the entrance, it says “Simulate”, the English word for “simulate”, “pretend”.

Because a great simulation is not just this place, but the life that Anderson and all the other people lead.

A delusion they are only too happy to indulge in: Welcome (back) to the Matrix!

"Matrix Resurrections": Lana Wachowski opens a new chapter

18 years after the finale of the trilogy with which Larry and Andy Wachowski revolutionized the science fiction genre between 1999 and 2003, “Matrix Resurrections” is now coming to cinemas.

Lana Wachowski, as Larry, who has lived as a woman for more than ten years, is now called, is solely responsible for the fourth part - and has thus opened a captivating new chapter in the story.

"Matrix Resurrections": Keanu Reeves as Neo and Carrie-Anne Moss, who plays Trinity again, are at the center of Lana Wachowski's new film.

© Warner Bros.

The idea of ​​"Matrix" is as simple as it is fascinating: what if our reality is not real? The starting point of the three films is an unprecedented war between humans and intelligent machines. The latter prevail and henceforth use Homo sapiens as an energy source, growing the bodies in honeycombs with nutrient fluid. The brains, however, link the machines with an enormous simulation, the matrix. This computer program simulates a life as we know it. Only a few rebels know the truth and are fighting the system. A chosen one becomes her savior: Thomas Anderson, who calls himself Neo as a hacker, an anagram of the English "One". Neo already bears its uniqueness in its name - and dies a sacrificial death for all people in "Matrix Revolutions" (2003).

The "Matrix" trilogy was released between 1999 and 2003

In the three films, the Wachowskis amalgamated myths and philosophies, tales of salvation, and the history of literature and art.

They staged the trilogy as a spectacular science fiction and action cinema;

Metaphysics meets martial arts here.

For their brilliant marriage, the siblings created a dark, elegant look.

20 years ago it was cool, casual - today you can of course smile about it.

Lana Wachowski does nothing else when she lets rebel leader Morpheus, who is now played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, sometimes even prance in brightly colored suits - meanwhile his colleague Laurence Fishburne, who was once seen as Morpheus, always weighty in black leather stepped on.

Back then there was more pathos.

"Matrix Resurrections" also looks at the trilogy with humor

It is this ease of the director in dealing with her own work, the wink with which she encounters the enormous success of “Matrix” that, among other things, make the new film so appealing.

However, Wachowski does more than just swap clothes.

The success of the trilogy itself: In "Resurrections" it is a computer game that Anderson programmed: Warner Bros. (actually the studio behind this film) now wants another, fourth part, his colleague explains to the shaggy-haired computer nerd.

At this point, I don't want to reveal too much, but it is obvious that Anderson has been wondering for some time whether the Matrix story could really have sprung from his imagination.

Keanu Reeves plays this doubting hero again, whose first name is reminiscent of the unbelieving Thomas, one of the apostles, while his last name pays homage to the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, who became famous through fairy tales.

Only when Neo awakens from his ignorance, his fictitious existence as Thomas Anderson in the Matrix, is he ready to become "the One".

In the new film, Wachowski tells the story of the first part again.

Sometimes identical down to the individual camera settings, but sometimes with different signs.

That could have failed terribly - not least with two and a half hours of running time.

But it is not.

"Matrix Resurrections": Jessica Henwick impresses as a hacker Bugs.

In the background: Keanu Reeves, who plays Neo again.

© Warner Bros.

Because "Resurrections" finds a new, contemporary tone, continues the dramaturgical spiral, is exciting and staged with humor. In other words: worth seeing also for all those who have not yet seen any of the films. However, if you are at home in the trilogy, you will have enormous pleasure with the numerous allusions that have been placed by the director. There are, for example, the glasses worn by the psychotherapist with whom Anderson is being treated - and their blue frames reveal which side this guy is actually on. His cat, in turn, eats from a bowl on which the word “Déjà-vu” is printed: based on such a memory illusion, combined with a cat, Neo was explained in the first film what the matrix is ​​all about. If you look closely, you will discover even more such references. This is a festival!

"Matrix Resurrections": strong acting ensemble

But the film is supported by its great ensemble, in which the women in particular embody the most interesting characters: especially Jessica Henwick, who is new to it and plays a hacker who, like the white animal in "Alice in Wonderland", goes down to the deepest depths accompanied by the rabbit hole of the soul and memories.

Jada Pinkett Smith, as feisty General Niobe, shows how well her figure has aged.

Jonathan Groff is not only the smart business partner of Thomas Anderson, but also the yang to his yin.

The shadow without which Neos light could not shine.

And finally there is Carrie-Anne Moss, whose trinity was already the most exciting, because most vulnerable, character in the trilogy.

The actress is now consistently continuing on this path: Yes, she can.

Source: merkur

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