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Loved this. It’s funny to me how many films aim to be “gritty” and “raw”, and yet Heller nails it by just playing the film honestly. It’s frank about sex, desire, and forming your identity, which is made so difficult when the adults around you also don’t have their shit together (and probably never will). And yet it’s not a preachy thing about the need for role models but rather a look at how close can you come to the…
The meta first act is my favorite part of the movie, but the whole vibe is sort of Lana Wachowski acknowledging studio pressure for the film to exist and then clapping back with a big, unabashed love story. Not everything works (the action doesn’t come close to the original trilogy, the Smith and Morpheus characters are undercooked), but it has a true north in the Neo/Trinity relationship and that keeps the whole movie together.