The pink tablet could comprise SPOILERS for The Matrix Resurrections.
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The Matrix Resurrections is in theaters and on HBO Max now, and it is fairly a visit down reminiscence lane 18 years after the unique trilogy ended. Unlike the Marvel Cinematic Universe films, the Wachowskis’ sequence is not identified for post-credits scenes, however the fourth entry does have a enjoyable meta shock for many who stick round.
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The ending sees Neo and Trinity (Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss) escape the Matrix, seize management of the simulated world from The Analyst (Neil Patrick Harris) and fly away to revamp it collectively.
After the credit roll, we reduce to Deus Machina, the Warner Bros.-owned online game developer Neo was working for. Forced again into his Matrix id, Thomas Anderson, he created a trilogy of video games based mostly on his reminiscences of the earlier films’ occasions (believing them to be mere creations of his creativeness).
Early in The Matrix Resurrections, Neo’s former nemesis, Agent Smith (Jonathan Groff), resides his new Matrix life as Anderson’s enterprise associate and fingers down an order that Warner Bros. needs a fourth Matrix sport. They arrange a brainstorming session, and bounce round concepts in regards to the sport’s motion, a cerebral narrative and the sequence’ signature Bullet Time. It’s all so meta that you just would possibly briefly query actuality.
This man is all about going again to the Matrix.
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We get a little bit extra of this within the post-credits scene.
“Face actuality. Movies are lifeless. Games are lifeless,” a developer says. “Narrative is lifeless.”
According to his colleague, media is only a “neuro-trigger response and viral conditioning.” They counsel tapping into the fantastic web custom of cat movies and counsel their subsequent challenge ought to be a sequence of movies known as “The Catrix.” There is certainly a YouTube video with an analogous identify that incorporates a bunch of acrobatic kitties.
It may additionally allude to The Analyst’s cat, Deja Vu, which was a callback to the enduring second within the authentic 1999 film when Neo noticed the identical cat twice after the machines made an alteration to the Matrix. All animals within the Matrix are digital constructs.
It’s unlikely we’ll be seeing a fifth film with this identify, however we must always all welcome our digital feline overlords if that point comes. Until then, let’s all simply eat cat content material. Meow, meow.
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