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2022-04-13, 06:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Matrix Resurrections Review Thread
I am not saying it is the dichotomy, quite the opposite, I am saying you need both.
But we got both in Matrix 4 that is why Smith is there to have a short brawl, that is why Morpheus 2 is there to have the nostalgia duel in the dojo. They are there to say sometimes the enemy is one you can define yourself against, a dialectic of recognition where Smith recognized Neo enough that he is going to take his broken sunglasses off and is going to say “I'm going to enjoy watching you die”, there is a mutual recognition here for even to the Machine Smith it is personal.
But the frantic running to the exit after the subway scene is a different type of experience. The agents were transforming into bystanders and shooting guns from a distance. There was no freedom or recognition here for one mistake and you are dead. The swarm is a similar type of avalanche experience. You are fighting a zombie horde, you feel like a fox being chased by an army of hounds and the goal is to outlast the fox in a battle of endurance. It is a different form of terror, it is not one based of recognition but instead death by exhaustion. Aka perhaps what mankind did on the Savannah if the anthropologists are correct about how prehistoric man hunted in a big game fashion.Stupendous Man drawn by Linklele
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2022-04-13, 08:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Matrix Resurrections Review Thread
You can't normally escape a zombie horde by jumping through mirrors though so the analogy loses something.
I agree you need both action and philosophy, but they messed up the balance here.Plague Doctor by Crimmy
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2022-04-13, 09:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Matrix Resurrections Review Thread
Mirrors are a safe space in a game of tag if your operator is prepared. That is why peoples always carry mirrors around with themselves. If they can import guns and clothes they can import mirrors as an escape route.
And the machine overlords counter this effect by removing all phones and mirrors from this fictional storyStupendous Man drawn by Linklele