The Matrix Resurrections | Official Trailer | HBO Max
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From visionary filmmaker Lana Wachowski comes “The Matrix Resurrections,” the long-awaited fourth film in the groundbreaking franchise that redefined a genre...

Four things I noticed in the trailer:

  1. In NPH psychiatrists office, he has butterflies and little glass baubles that are red and blue respectively that sit opposite of one another. I wonder if the implication is that he is the one who created/wrote the code of the red and blue pills.

  2. We see the machine's operating on Neo's body in a series of flashcuts and his eyes are burnt and sealed shut just like in revolutions....so this is 100% a resurrection in the literal sense. The machines can grow human beings so this honestly isn't that out there.

  3. We see trinities body in "the real world" (pin in that one). She has a tube connected to her head with blue LEDS....not unlike the blue pills actually. She also has what almost looks like blue code running down her face, although that could just be a trick of lighting and her being covered in liquid of some kind.

  4. We see a videoprojector in a room playing the first matrix film.

  • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Compare this to the original Matrix, with the thought out character blocking and usage of urban spaces, framing, the more subdued, symmetrical , gorgeously monochromatic, neo-noir aesthetic.

    I think this place is intentionally made to look almost uncannily otherworldly and alien....so I think it fits here. Notice the lack of color grading, which fits with the ending of revolutions where once Neo's code was introduced it faded away, symbolizing his change of the matrix. The sun here is very reminiscent of that final scene...which is a nice touch.

    Now, all of the CGI riddled cliches in the trailer could be very much intentional and the movies underlying themes being some super interesting meta-narrative and commentary on franchise reboots, etc. If so that would actually be pretty cool. But off first glance of the trailer it looks like a Star Wars esque revamp.

    Fair...but yeah, that's what I'm banking on. To be honest I think that's why at least one of the wachowskies is doin it...cause they knew looking around that someone else would if they didn't first.