So we did Matrix Reloaded this weekend and I have THOUGHTS.
1) The movie opens with Neo having a nightmare about Trinity dying. Neo has achieved a tentative unity with their inner self, but that unity is fragile.
To me this is clearly about how healing is fraught and fragile.
1) The movie opens with Neo having a nightmare about Trinity dying. Neo has achieved a tentative unity with their inner self, but that unity is fragile.
To me this is clearly about how healing is fraught and fragile.
2) Neo knows who he is now, but he doesn't know what to do with that information. "Ok, now what?"
Well, now-what is he has to work through a series of gatekeepers to reach The Truth, which is that everything he was told is a lie.
Well, now-what is he has to work through a series of gatekeepers to reach The Truth, which is that everything he was told is a lie.
3) Very strong Kafka "Before the Law" vibe here. He is made to perform various identities -- for Seraph, for Persephone, for Morpheus, for The Architect.
Each time he makes a choice to submit, provisionally, until the end when he chooses not to.
Each time he makes a choice to submit, provisionally, until the end when he chooses not to.
4) Every part of The One was a mechanism of control. The Oracle helped create the Matrix, and facilitates the journey of The One in a way that's ultimately designed to force a choice between genocide and oblivion.
The only way to win is not to play, as Neo learns too late.
The only way to win is not to play, as Neo learns too late.
5) Smith is the complicating factor. If Neo and Trinity are two aspects of the same person, Smith is infinite aspects of the same person.
But whereas Neo and Trinity's unity is tenuous, fragile and porous Smith's is violent and "inevitable".
He's white allocisheternormativity.
But whereas Neo and Trinity's unity is tenuous, fragile and porous Smith's is violent and "inevitable".
He's white allocisheternormativity.
6) And what's interesting to me is that he comes to represent a third faction. The Machines, in this case, are not the enemy per se - they're just a system in which humanity finds itself.
But Smith, he's the enemy within the system and without.
But Smith, he's the enemy within the system and without.
7) What I still don't understand is how Neo stops the sentinels at the end. I'm really looking forward to watching Revolutions tonight.
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