this is not a spoiler

I just saw Matrix2.

It is very very very smart. I understood it (I'd say at least 70% of the theater was at a loss), but I couldn't explain large chunks of it to you. Many deeply freaky monologues.

It is also quite sexy.

Also provoked tons of nervous laughter from an audience that did not know what to do with it.

Very uncomfortable, noncommunal viewing experience.

Go fucking see it.

Oh and it bloody references EVERYTHING.

I will also note, at greater length another time, that it oddly hit on a lot of extremely strange, not personal buttons so much, but definitely ideas that have been at the forefront lately because of a couple of writing projects. This was, remarkably unexpected and somewhat unsettling, as I was looking forward to getting away from that for a few hours.

the matrix again

( this time, with fairly incoherent spoilerish stuff )

Ultimately, this is a film made by people who love movies, and aren't ashamed of that fact. It is not perfunctory in that adoration, nor closed in its ambition. Which made it uniquely relevant to what interests me these days.

Also, generally I see movies and I say to myself, "man, all that scary physical stuff is really going to be very hard for me as a performer sooner or later" and I saw this and was like "yeah! I wanna do that." Which is not usually the sort of adventure I go for. Pretty neat.

P.S. -- I am all about Neo's costume.