4/15/2024 0 Comments Red pill blue pill matrix audio![]() The website features both a red pill and a blue pill. First published on 21 January 2022.Those pesky red and blue pills are back in a new website teaser for The Matrix Resurrections, the long-awaited fourth installment in the sci-fi series. Used with permission.Įpisode recorded via Zoom in Comber, Dundonald and Newtownards, Northern Ireland on 15 January 2022.Įngineered and edited by Robert JE Simpson. The CinePunked theme music is ‘ Riding the Synth‘ – © 2020, Ben Blademan Simpson. In the US it is available to stream via HBO Max. The Matrix Resurrections is currently in cinemas worldwide, distributed by Warner Bros. They provide a flavour of the new film – do see it in cinemas if you can. The episode contains audio clips (used within fair use provision) from three different trailers for The Matrix Resurrections, distributed by Warner Bros. ![]() And apologies in advance for the epic length! Purely coincidental, but some of you might be following these by loose topic.Īs ever, do get in touch with us with your thoughts. This is also another of the San Francisco films I’m so fond of (I’ve been threatening to write a book on these) – with the bulk of filming taking place in the city. We’ll be doing a follow up in the next few episodes, looking at it specifically – because when two major studio productions dealing in similar topics are released within months of each other, something is at play.įor regulars, Red Pill or Blue Pill harkens back to our episode on Labyrinth with its Alice in Wonderland borrowings, and indeed, you’ll also perhaps find a connection to the previous episode on Targets… Once again, a theme has inadvertently emerged linking a bundle of episodes. Towards the end of the conversation we mention the Ryan Reynolds film Free Guy (in fact, I’d intended to draw parallels between the two films throughout, but when the conversation stayed focussed on The Matrix Resurrections I had to cut it from the intro in the edit!). We’ve not used YouTube as an outlet for much before now, but we’re hoping to change that this year. Several snippets of conversation from the aborted session were not repeated in the second, and when I get a chance, I’ll add some of these in clip form to our YouTube channel – and hopefully a video version of this pod. Instead, we’ve tended to come at it from some of the other social-political readings that the film presents as possibilities – one thing is certain, The Matrix is not a single dimensional approach, it supports many different takes, and I hope our conversation might prompt others. ![]() ![]() There is acknowledgement too of the trans-allegory reading that the Wachowski’s have endorsed for the film, but we have to acknowledge that as three non-trans men, we are not the people to thoroughly explore that reading. Over three hours of conversation that just wouldn’t fit in a podcast. We’d collectively agreed though that the film was trying to send a message, and so, armed with a certain familiarity and awareness of a message in place, we went back in, watched the film again and sat down for our discussion.īetween the sessions we covered the Christ parallels, binary existence, duality, representations of self, perception, and the blurring of lines between worlds. In the first session we’d started exploring disparate ideas, but the whole didn’t quite hang in the way it should, and we run out of time owing to the logistics of a back-to-back record with our Targetsepisode. I’ve largely left the episode as recorded – this is considerably longer than we had intended, but this was already a remount. With its religious allegories, Neil Sedgewick (he of Films & Faith branding) seemed an appropriate third wheel – and my gosh, the symbolism of the entire Matrix plotting provided fuel for a leisurely, lengthy and ponderous conversation between the three of us. Not having really indulged beyond the first film, I okayed the idea and collectively we set about a rewatch of the series ahead of the cinematic release of The Matrix Resurrections. Neo enters the Simulatte cafe in The Matrix Resurrections (2021)īen made the suggestion that we should cover the fourth film in The Matrix franchise ahead of its release in December 2021 – arguing that its symbolism and importance within film history should stimulate conversation for the CinePunked team (and possibly also playing into his interests in computer games).
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