How many times a movie can change itself and our lives?
I watched The Matrix again, this time on a huge IMAX screen in the middle of Shinjuku. Be in that station and than start to see a movie like The Matrix is really impactful. Again I could feel in depth, in my soul, what some details of this movie means to me.
The purple that I could not see since 1999 was there, and be eaten by phone numbers brought me the claustrophobic sense of all the internet failures surrounding us. It's terrifying. The movie throws this in your face, it's a warning of what is coming:
I consider the 1999 The Matrix a Morpheus perspective of the same looping storytelling that happens in all matrix movies. The hero story of Neo is there, but it is never good enough. Always fragile, it will forever serves as a blank canvas for what matters most: her.
Trinity doesn't need to know kung-fu or dodge bullets. She just goes and do her best and it's always enough. She has doubts, but doesn't stumbles. She worries, confront and care. Also headshots an agent. She is solution, power, fear, resilience, equity and beauty in a physical and spiritual sense.
And when everything goes wrong, when humans and machines are dying for not understanding the world, and Morpheus is hopeless without any other word to say, Trinity assumes as a queen and wakes up the sleeping beauty for the second time, now with a soft kiss. No, there is no flowers or talking animals, only short circuits redefining affection.
Believe me, The Matrix is not a dystopia anymore, is an utopia, changing itself and us once more. The cliché is not on the screen, is on you. Understanding this makes us reborn in the ruins, where technology is love and the most important tools are our bodies. There is no Morpheus to doutrinate, no traitors or barriers defining who we are. Trinity and Neo are layed down over crappy chairs, cables and broken machines. There is balance, peace. Everything is contaminated by our deformity and because of that, we survive.
PS: this was written before matrix resurrection.
