Saw a video the other day (not in English unfortunately) with an analysis of how it actually makes sense from a themes and style perspective (e.g. the Wachowski’s work on the Sense 8 taught them how to go to a more “impro” kind of directing compared to planning everything with very established plans in their earlier works)
Curious to see what the opinion of the people here is
So something I haven’t seen mentioned here yet is the premise of the new matrix.
Instead of being about the illusion of freedom and choice, it’s about chasing constantly tantalising and unreachable desires, with Neo and Trinity being out of each other’s reach “driving” the whole thing.
Obviously a reference to modern social media etc. But say what you will about the film, I always thought this was a solid idea and continuation of the first matrix’s metaphor.
There’s probably a bunch of artistic stuff out there on what the modern internet is to modern culture. But the image of two loved one eternally forced to be tantalisingly out of reach as the heart of modern society has stuck with me very boldly since I saw the film.
And I’m not sure I’ve seen anything even come close to getting to the heart of what doom scrolling takes away from us as people.