Bringing in authors David Mitchell (of the original Cloud Atlas novel) and Aleksandar Hemon ( Nowhere Man, The Lazarus Project) as co-writers would seem to indicate continued intellectual ambitions. Bob Chipman argued in his "Really That Good: The Matrix" video that The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, as flawed as they are in execution, were well-meaning attempts to deconstruct the first movie's "chosen one" narrative and provide a non-violent resolution to the central conflict.Ĭoming to The Matrix 4 after working on the likes of Cloud Atlas and Sense8, increasingly experimental narratives that were queer, political and engaged with questions of when revolutionary violence is heroic versus troubling, it seems like Lana Wachowski is going to further complicate the narrative. The "Second Renaissance" shorts in The Animatrix altered the simple "humans good, machines bad" narrative by transforming the conflict into a story of cyclical oppression. It's also clear that Lana Wachowski has long been interested in complicating the more simplistic and potentially problematic reads of The Matrix. RELATED: Will Smith Explains Why He Turned Down The Matrix On some level, you really can't predict how people are going to misinterpret art when you have people using My Little Pony and Steven Universe of all things as excuses to be hateful jerks (and in the Wachowskis' own filmography, the response to V For Vendetta shows even taking explicit political stances doesn't necessarily stop the other side from appropriating your symbolism). The idea of The Matrix, a film in which a diverse, egalitarian crew of heroes fight together for the liberation of humanity, being a favorite of people who think women are to blame for society's problems is a confusing one on the face of it. RELATED: Matrix 4 Confirmed with Reeves, Moss and Lana Wachowski Returning According to MRAs and incels, the illusion you need to be "Red Pilled" out of is feminism. In the Matrix movies, taking the Red Pill awakens you to the real world and breaks you out of the illusions of The Matrix. However, one of the central concepts of the series, the idea of Red Pill versus the Blue Pill, took on a darker connotation as the terminology became used by Men's Rights Activists and incels. The Matrix's influence has been either undeniably positive (introducing countless viewers to complex philosophical ideas, paving the way for the Keanuissance) or simply silly, memetic or neutral (how every movie had to include a "bullet time" parody for a few years after the first movie).
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