slutWhat movie do you think is really underrated?
HadriscusMatrix Reloaded. People generally dislike it. I find it deepens the Matrix universe in many ways
The metaphysics in the whole series is honestly mind blowing. I even found the 4th movie to be oddly disturbing because it made it click in my mind that choosing a different reality than you were born into is akin to suicide. That blue pill kills your old self. It didn’t quite click for me in the first movie because I feel they were doing a lot of world building and it was easy to miss it in the fast pace.
The 4th movie they kinda lingered on that concept and it just screamed “this is talking about suicide” to me.
ahhh… never saw it that way. I remember reading Lana (?) saying it was a trans allegory, and it made so much sense to me.
I didn’t like the 4th at all but I fully expect to read more into it a decade from now or so
Yeah, maybe try watching it from the suicide perspective. If you end up seeing it like that, suddenly that blue pill you swallowed is a death sentence. Perspective can essentially invert reality. Switch The real with the fake. The wrong for the right. The male to the female. The Good to the Evil.
Life to Death.
Light to Dark
Obi-Wan was right. It really does depend on a certain point of view.
The matrix sequels definitely muddle the pacing and characters, and they struggle to fill the void left by the central mystery of the first film, but the philosophising and action are both as good or better than the first film.
Speed racer has already been critically reevaluated so I guess my wachowski hot take is that Jupiter Ascending is due. It’s idiotic but it’s a sweaty blast of pure cinema.
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