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The Animatrix: The Second Renaissance Part I (2003)

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Concept art for the combat suit by Mahiro Maeda for the "Second Renaissance" in The Animatrix.

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Dude when I was a kid these couple of seconds of film were the hardest fucking thing I'd seen in my entire life

I still feel chills

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The Animatrix

I never realised this character was called the Instructor, but here we go! I always thought her design was interesting, and she had a lot of empathy behind her words.

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There's something I find beautiful about Neo as a character: he's living proof that we as humankind can grow and move past our histories of misdeeds towards others to become better. "I stand here because of the path that lies behind me" indeed.

In the Second Renaissance two-parter in The Animatrix, most notably in the first part, the Machine War was ultimately brought about by most of humanity's own greed, arrogance and superiority towards the Machines, but that was only the humanity of back then - Neo, a human from later on, is very evidently selfless and really does only want to save mankind, and what's more, he talks kindly with the Oracle, Seraph, and Sati and her parents - programs created by the Machines - just like he would with any other human, especially after he finds out from Rama-Kandra and then fully believes that programs have the same concept of love for each other that drives Neo. This is further shown after his second unplugging in Resurrections, when he sincerely thanks Cybebe, Octacles and Lumin8 for getting him out and even returns Cybebe's affectionate headbutt. He treats them just like any other hovercraft crewmember, and this is before he even knows if what he did in Revolutions ended the hostilities.

So although Smith had a point in saying that things like the rapid consumption of natural resources is a fault of ours, which I think we do need to be careful about, he was wrong when he claimed that all humans are a plague and are just out for their own ends, and it's why he'll never get humanity. For every arrogant human convinced of their own supremacy and stuck in their greed, there's also a person who'll go above and beyond even for strangers, and will be happy to extend a friendly hand to those who they formerly would've thought of as enemies simply because it's right, like Neo.

He did so much to end the hostilities and get peace for both sides, to save everyone, just because it was the right thing to do. And so it's why I like to think that as well as it being about having the strength to carry on and find your own freedom of individuality, when Neo's response to Smith demanding "WHY, MR. ANDERSON? WHY DO YOU PERSIST?!" was him saying "Because I choose to." it was his way of telling him that he'd chosen to just be selfless and kind. He chose to have the kindness both for his fellow humans and for the Machines that the humanity of the past should've had, and to represent the renewal of the best of humankind. 💕

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The other thing about interpreting the hate crime scene in The Second Renaissance to be specifically some tortured metaphor for trans women specifically, beyond the fact that it was written and directed by a cis man and the Wachowskis only provided the outline, is that in the films trans people* are metaphorically represented by humanity and the oppressive forces keeping them closeted or unaware of their true selves are the machines. Not only does those conditions not yet exist during the scene in question, but even if they decided to just be inconsistent here you're still saying that what the franchise depicts is trans women reacting to brutal oppression by going on to take their legitimate grief and victimization out on others at the first opportunity!

Wait. Damn.

TRFs! I take it back! You're great at media analysis! Unless you'd rather admit that the cis man who wrote and directed the short was not really doing so with the grander metaphor in mind, because a spin-off to flesh out the world building was an entirely separate endeavor that the Wachowskis likely did not really care as much about as the themes they were trying to get through in the primary works.

*not women, people, pay attention

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forever incurably repeatedly throwing up over the one android getting assaulted and slowly forcefully dehumanized physically and psychologically while screaming she’s real in the animatrix like i will never fucking recover from this chat

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