I don't know what I expected from the new #Matrix movie but it surely wasn't this. I've seen the original trilogy dozens of times (and rewatched it once more just before this), always enjoyed the sequels too, and wrote a thesis (back in school) on the philosophy of/in the series.

https://twitter.com/mf_watching/status/1474742880040333313

So to say my expectations were high is an understatement. While I think I mostly get #MatrixResurrections and don't disagree with it, it was just really not what I hoped for in a continuation. Which might be exactly the point, but that's just a little too meta for me currently.

So, "quick" update after another week. Sadly things haven't quite settled down yet, my dad is currently in the hospital for monitoring over the weekend after he lost consciousness and fell out of his bed in the nursing home yesterday.

https://twitter.com/manu_faktur/status/1469429388055924738

But first things first, as I said last Saturday me and a friend went to his apartment in Munich and I brought home two large boxes filled with folders and loose documents, basically every piece of paper I could find. That was already immensely helpful several times this week.

Sunday was my dad's 63rd birthday. Today my brother and I had to put him in a nursing home, after what was probably the hardest and most emotionally draining week of my life. I'm already forgetting details, so I want to document it before it's too late. This will be fairly long… For almost a decade now he has lived with a fairly untreatable brain tumor causing loss of motor function for most of his (upper) right body and huge impediments to his ability to speak. Apparently he knows exactly what he wants to say, but he can't put it into actual words.