The Matrix Marathon

Warner Bros. Pictures

This isn't a review of The Matrix Resurrections per se. DH and I did a Matrix marathon this weekend, ending with the latest installment. With 20/20 hindsight, this movie franchise is most definitely a story told through the lens of of the Wachowskis' journeys as trans women.

I'm in no position to comment on the trans experience. However, Lana Wachowski does slyly reference the cis-het female experience during Thomas/Neo and Tiffany/Trinity's talk over coffee. Tiffany/Trinity's comment about whether she chose motherhood or did she succumb to societal pressure hit home for me.

But that particular scene delved deeper into Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss's real lives. It struck me that this wasn't a conversation between two characters. It was a conversation between two friends who are getting reacquainted after being apart for years and facing their own choices over that intervening time.

Instead of the downer ending of the third movie, the fourth Matrix ends, not on hope, but the acknowledgement of the power within us all. It shows the hard-won wisdom that comes with age.

Most of the reviews I read today missed all the points Wachowski's story made. That truly is a pity because this movie series not only displays Wachowski's internal struggles within herself, but the eventually acceptance of her self.