[FILM]
THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS
Clockwise from main: Look who’s back; Morpheus (Yahya Abdul- Mateen II) and Bugs (Jessica Henwick); Hands up if Tiffany (Carrie-Ann Moss) looks familiar to you, Thomas (Keanu Reeves).
★★★
DIRECTOR Lana Wachowski
OUT 22 DECEMBER
CERT 15 / 148 MINS
CAST Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jessica Henwick
PLOT Two decades after Neo supposedly died, we find his synthetic alter-ego Thomas Anderson (Reeves) living out his life obliviously, munching blue pills prescribed by his therapist (Neil Patrick Harris). In recovery from a mental breakdown, he’s having visions, and after meeting the familiar Tiffany (Moss), his world starts to open up.
THE LEGACY OF 1999’s The Matrix endures and evolves. It has been exalted, co-opted, bastardised. With every passing day, the film, directed by Lilly and Lana Wachowski, seems to mean different things to different people, who all claim it as their own. To some it’s merely a groundbreaking, hugely influential, oft-imitated sci-fi action movie that’s rarely been bettered. To some it’s a trans allegory. To some it’s about truth, and reality, and sheeple. “Take the red pill,” tweeted Elon Musk in May 2020. “Taken!”, responded Ivana Trump. “Fuck both of you,” replied Lilly Wachowski. Thank you and goodnight.