With TheMatrixResurrections, in a return to a trilogy that reached its natural conclusion 18 years ago, director Lana Wachowski wonders, 'What if Neo had chosen the blue pill?'
) and a handful of other key characters , “Resurrections” tethers its latest iteration to the “simulation hypothesis” — the theory, given oxygen by Elon Musk, that video game technology is advancing at such a clip that odds are good you’re already living in one. The difference, compared with “Matrix 1.0”: The “sheeple” in the movie’s brave new world have that potentially liberating information, and still they choose to sleepwalk through their lives.
It would’ve been much edgier to present Reeves as an aging incel with receding hair and a dandruff-speckled turtleneck — or better yet, as a self-deprecating version of himself, like the one he played in Netflix rom-com “Always Be My Maybe.” Storytelling has evolved by quantum leaps since 1999, and as futuristic as the “Matrix” franchise once felt, it all seems rather quaint today, what with the advent of “reality TV” and such ontological series as “The Good Place” and “The OA” .
Self-doubts aside, Anderson drags his feet when Morpheus kicks open a door and tries to offer him the old red-pill enlightenment. Meanwhile, his shrink has him on a steady prescription of blue pills. And then a spunky young cyber-anarchist named Bugs shows up, having narrowly escaped an obvious-trap “modal,” or training exercise, where she rescues the new-and-improved Morpheus .
Far removed from the shadowy film-noir vibe of the original, it’s easy to imagine humans being seduced by such a setting, especially when presented in the magic-hour glow of recent Marvel movies — and against which the grungy post-apocalyptic realm of spaceships and people pods seems less appealing than ever.
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