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Read: A movie like The Matrix might never happen again Was it the action? The twisty plotting? The punky, late-’90s leather aesthetic? Does the world really need more Matrix? Wachowski ponders the question both through Thomas’s weariness and the strange creative debates that play out on-screen, as eager young game programmers bat around notions of what made The Matrix so appealing in the first place. Wachowski, who had long seemed content to leave the Matrix universe dormant after the back-to-back sequels Reloaded and Revolutions in 2003, is poking fun at the pervading corporate desire to make everything old new again. While working on a new video game, Thomas is told by his smarmy business partner Smith (Jonathan Groff) that their parent company, Warner Bros., is forcing Thomas to create a sequel to The Matrix-news that further emphasizes the sense that his life is an unending treadmill of the same experiences.

Though the world around him has changed-he’s now surrounded by chattering Millennials tapping away on their cellphones-he’s as existentially tormented as he was before, sure that there’s more to life beyond what he can see. (Reeves also sports his John Wick look-longer hair and a patchy beard.) Thomas is a video-game designer coasting off the success of The Matrix, a deeply immersive, best-selling game that appears indistinguishable from the original film arc. But in updating a seminal text about generational alienation from more than two decades ago, Lana Wachowski (who directed solo this time, without her sister Lilly) has made a film that addresses the discombobulations of contemporary life, critiques Hollywood’s general reboot culture, and serves as a surprisingly sweet work of nostalgia.Įxhaustion with our ultra-connected world pervades the first act of The Matrix Resurrections, which finds Thomas living in the present day. The Matrix Resurrections is hardly the first “legacy sequel” to hit cinemas recently- Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Space Jam: A New Legacy are among the many long-delayed follow-ups to big hits of yesteryear. But in this film, the turn of the century’s crushing inertia has evolved into the unending din of the social-media age. In The Matrix Resurrections-a new entry in a movie franchise that’s been dormant since 2003-Thomas, whom audiences knew as the heroic Neo, is once again trapped in a simulation. The twist, of course, was that this seemingly familiar life wasn’t real, and that Thomas, like almost all of humanity, was stuck inside a computer program created by a machine race. Released in 1999, the Wachowskis’ sci-fi film painted a quotidian picture of the late 20th century: The protagonist, Thomas Anderson (played by Keanu Reeves), lived in a bland-looking megacity where he worked a dull cubicle job and pondered the hopeless future that many feared at the end of the millennium. The Matrix was set at the end of history.

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