The Matrix: Resurrections and Caught Up in a Meta-Loop of Destruction

By Christopher Barr │POSTED ON Christmas Eve, 2021

---If we don’t know what is real we are often unable to resist what isn’t.---

Tabula Rosa – is the theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content, and therefore all knowledge comes from experience or perception.  The mind isn’t born with a hardwired possession of certain knowledge.

Some spoilers ahead……………

Like a mosquito at a nudist colony, I’m trying to figure out where to begin with this fourth installment of The Matrix franchise.  Which by the way, this movie cynically criticizes throughout the first half of its long-running time.

The Matrix: Resurrections is about choice, destiny, identity, and trans-formation.  The movie explores qualifying memory recall and whether free will is an illusion and destiny always being part of our programming.  Then - we are able to escape that programming through, I guess through some form of free will, hence these strange repeating loops and inconsistencies this movie softly investigates.  I would argue – not well.

Is reality-based in memory nothing but fiction?

Thomas Anderson (AKA Neo) in this version of the Matrix is a video game creator and designer of The Matrix game for a company called Deus Machina.  Which is a game that mirrors the content, characters, and plot of The Matrix 1999 film, which of course is unknown to the millions of gamers that reside in this seventh version of the Matrix from which they perceive reality.  I know what you’re thinking – a loop within a loop within a loop within a loop then a meta-loop, and so on.

Thomas goes to therapy to try and resolve the psychotic and suicidal issues he has been experiencing for some time now.  He believes he doesn’t belong in his current reality; he believes somethings wrong or off with this place, “like a splinter in his mind” that he just can’t put his finger on.  So, he keeps taking his blue pills to help from going ‘crazy’.  A word, it turns out, he isn’t permissible to say in his therapy session.

Thomas meets up with Tiffany (AKA Trinity) in a café called Simulatte.  They start to get the feels and begin to remember moments of their ‘true’ past.  Thomas through therapy and Tiffany through dreams.  Thomas is then brought over to the real world, which has survived 60 years since the last time he was there, by red pilling it and then planning to get Trinity out of the Matrix.  That’s pretty well it, no saving the world, bin there dun dat, just get Trinity out.

Big shocker, in the end, Trinity becomes the One and saves Neo and then takes down the patriarchy afterward.  This hasn’t been a common theme permeating cinema and culture in the last five years, has it?

---If we are unable to distinguish the difference between what is real and what isn’t we are doomed to be trapped in fantasy.---

Reason it appears, is unable to break out from its own loop.  No matter what these characters do, they seem to remain caught in this Matrix loop, indefinitely.  In our, outside of this movie, world we are not able to change on the level that our imaginary and emotional perceptions tend to believe.  We have thoughtful stories and internal narratives that persuade our minds into going along with this line of thinking, often in a quite convincing way, but to quote the actual Morpheus, “There’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.”

The truth is most of our lives are lived internally within the neuro-synaptic confines of our minds.  We perceive the world outside our braincase, we feel it affect our nerves and gather sensory data through our many available inputs, we then form a narrative and live that story as if it were as real as apple pie.

Echoes of the past ripple up to this point in time only to help us forget.

The fight scenes were sloppy, unlike the choreographed artistry of the original.  The action scenes for the most part was generic and in some cases crappy for what you’d expect from a Matrix film.  The Merovingian from Reloaded makes an appearance in one such crappy action scene yelling out barely coherent indictments against Neo.  I won’t go into detail, but it was just a sad sight to behold.  How did that make it into final picture I will never know?

All the far……….far left, neon hair dye and non-binary, diversity couldn’t swoop in and virtue-signal this movie from being a cardboard simulacra shadow of its former self.  The wokeness in this movie is plastered throughout, unfortunately, which ultimately bogs down the story and drenches it in identity politics.  To be fair, the reason it is bad isn’t hinged on its wokeness – it’s just bad filmmaking from screenplay to picture lock to final test screening.

There were a few moments that were -actually- okay.  The movie dived a little into Predictive programming and the meta-message about exploiting nostalgic IPs for the sole purpose of a money grab but Neo and Trinity are the real focus here.  Everyone and I mean every other character in this movie are forgettable, ‘Who was forgettable?’ ‘Exactly.’

Other than that, there was no real innovation and only rudimentary cookie cut-out philosophy that was even beneath entry-level Philosophy 101.  The Matrix: Resurrections did make a profound statement despite itself; the audiences of today can’t handle the discourse and depth of The Matrix 1999.

Resurrections is more on par with Revolutions, the third Matrix movie.  It’s lighter and more dumbed-down to suit how the studio likely thinks what contemporary audiences, with many bubble-wrapped and willing participants in victimhood culture, would be prepared to sit through.  Are we the problem here?  This current system?  Social media?  Why do we resist the Red Pill?  Is the choice an illusion or was the red pill always decided?  Sadly, these days I don’t see much of that going around.

Why are we all so easily offended in our first-world technocracy?  We have become hyper-sensitive to any comment, opinion, or view that conflicts with our own perspective.  We often become agitated at the slightest bend in our narrative, that story that we believe defines us.

We are alone in the fastest and most expansive time that human beings on this planet have experienced.  We have technological advances and scientific discoveries developing at a rapid pace.  We have endless conflicts with governments and their often-absurd policies, and the daily threat of impending doom by some unknown, faceless enemy.

We have difference in every direction, constantly reminding us of how small we are, among all this chaos.  We have health warnings, passive-aggressive violence, and system failure seemingly lurking around every corner of our lives.  We have numerous multi-cultures of people, that believe in other gods and live by dissimilar traditions than the ones we are accustomed to. 

We do have control but the problem with it is it isn’t real, it’s manufactured.  Our control mainly comes in the form of some technology or what we choose to buy.  The problem with this control we all share is, our control isn’t really ours, it belongs to the corporations that deceived us into thinking it’s ours.   

 

---If reality alludes us, we will inevitably fall prey to illusions presented to us.---