BY LOIS WADSWORTH
Neo (Keanu Reeves)
shows his ability
as a warrior.
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A MIGHTY WIND
(PG-13)
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HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN
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T H E M AT RI X R E LO AD E D: Written and directed
by the Wachowski Brothers. Produced by Joel Silver. Executive
producers, Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski, Grant Hill,
Andrew Mason and Bruce Berman. Cinematography, Bill Pope.
Production design, Owen Paterson. Editor Zach Staenberg.
Music, Don Davis. Special effects, John Gaeta. Costumes, Kym
Barrett. Choreography, Charles Moulton. Fight Choreography,
Yuen Wo Ping. Staring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne and
Carrie-Anne Moss, with Hugo Weaving, Jada Pinkett Smith and
Gloria Foster. Also, Monica Bellucci, Randall Duk Kim, Harry
Lennix, Harold Perrineau, Adrian Rayment and Neil Rayment. .
Warner Bros. Pictures, 2003. R. 138 minutes.
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Special effects abound.
©2003
S
o much hype, so many words and
such ubiquitous images have
swamped the ‘Net, TV and the print
world about the Wachowski Brother’s second
of three futuristic films that I am reluctant to
add to the glut.
But I could do a snappy literature review
and suggest that you read, for example, Jane
Dark’s thoughtful analysis of Matrix phe-
nomena in the May 14 issue of the Village
Voice. Dark is willing to explore the film’s
fans’ quasi-spiritual obsession with what
Laurence Fishburne describes to her as “spir-
itual fucking voodoo fucking mumbo jumbo
kind of shit.”
Or for the inside look at the special effects
in The Matrix Reloaded, go to The New York
Times of May 11 for a story by David
Edelstein that includes an interview with vi-
sual effects supervisor John Gaeta. “I guaran-
tee you your brain will work harder than any
action movie you’ve ever seen in your entire
life,” Gaeta predicted.
Or check in with John Powers’ (L.A.
Weekly, May 16-22 issue), who hits the nail
on the head with his observation that Keanu
Reeves’ character, Neo, in the first Matrix
(1999) “hit the millennial Zeitgeist with the
explosive accuracy of a smart bomb.” As
Powers notes, “Reloaded doesn’t have any-
thing truly meaningful to say about race, but
its proud swirl of colors underscores a huge
cultural shift. … nonwhite style is what’s
happening.”
I know I’ve said this before, but I do have
to say it again. The only science fiction that
interests me is about the human experience.
Spielberg’s A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
and Minority Report (2002) challenged that
principle. In A.I. a child robot is introduced to
take the place of a lost child; in Minority
Report, a sensitive human woman is forced to
become a robot who foresees criminal vio-
lence before it happens. I had to see A.I. a sec-
ond time to love the child who could only
love; it became one of my top films of 2001.
Second viewing of Samantha Morton’s in-
credible performance as an imprisoned em-
pathic and Tom Cruise as a grieving father
made Minority Report also about loss, family
and love. Likewise, Steven Soderbergh’s
sublime, underrated Solaris (2002), is also
about love, loss and an unknowable
fate. These three films spoke to me
through themes that resonate
throughout human culture.
The Matrix Reloaded shows
very little about the human experi-
ence, although Neo’s love for
Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) saves
him from losing his humanity in a
world populated by machines and
heartless projections from the com-
puter illusion of the Matrix.
But the highly stylized warfare
envisioned, the mechanistic nature
of the future world imagined and the
tightly choreographed violence of
the balletic-like skirmishes Neo
must fight with 100 simulacra of
Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) leave
me cold. The 14-minute freeway
car-chase extravaganza expresses
no human values that I recognize,
but it is clever and smartly done. To
battle the non-humans of the
Matrix, must the few humans be-
come machine-like as well?
I was let down by the limited
creativity that went into the rave
scene in Zion. Music and drumming
can induce ecstatic dance, but here
the Wachowskis pander to some of
the film’s devotees at the risk of
looking foolish to everyone else.
The intellectual conundrum that
this installment offers — Matrix
being about choice — centers
around old questions that a religious
concept called predestination raises.
The master program that controls
everyone in the Matrix, which ear-
lier generations might have called
God, knows every possible out-
come of any set of actions.
Therefore, does free will exist? Is
there such a thing as Fate or Destiny? If the
program knows that Neo will rebel in a spe-
cific situation, is his rebellion programmed as
well?
Stick around for the answers. Or at least
for more questions. The third installment
opens in theaters this fall. Right now, you can
see this one at Cinema World and Cinemark
in six theaters.
ew
Does free will exist? Is there such a thing as Fate or Destiny?
DOWN WITH LOVE*
(PG-13)
WARNER BROS., 2003
10:55, 1:35, 4:30, 7:15, 10:05
LIZZIE MCGUIRE
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