“Racing will never change. What matters is whether we allow racing to change us.”
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
I haven't exactly rushed out with my scarf fluttering behind my neck to see the new Wachowski flick. This is not because it dispenses "almost entirely with credible emotion or intelligible narrative," as Elvis Mitchell puts it. That's what I go to a Wachowski brothers flick to see: I've had enough "credible evidence" in this decade to last me through the next three. Besides, I just saw Two-Lane Blacktop, a great movie, about which the same can be said. No, I've passed on their latest because they have so consistently flubbed the themes I feel strongly about. When Chris Claremont sent his characters back and forth on an alternative timeline he gave them specific tasks to accomplish and personal losses to attend. His comic-book creations had a shared responsibility towards destiny, not the autodidact's choice between the red pill and the blue pill. (And again, I'll keep bringing this up: if the machines of the Matrix's future required biomechanical energy to run, why couldn't they just use elephants, or swamp algae, as a power source? Isn't that what our own dystopia implies?) Anyway, this idea that they're going to take a fun romp through a supposed anime classic isn't really blowing my mind. I expect they'll screw that up, too.
However, I do find the reviews pretty obnoxious. They seem to imply that the Wachowski Bros. should earn back their credibility by taking it down a notch, maybe write a wholesome flick about a hedge fund manager finding his purpose in the home country and starting a little wine start-up. Embarassing moments of real feeling. Shot in natural light, maybe. Did you come to see a movie, Elvis, or to shop for real estate?
posted by Greg Purcell @ 2:17 PM,
