{"id":2043,"date":"2022-01-29T22:21:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T06:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2022-01-29T22:21:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T06:21:13","slug":"film-the-matrix-resurrections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2022\/01\/29\/film-the-matrix-resurrections\/","title":{"rendered":"Film: The Matrix Resurrections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oh!  So, I mentioned how excited I was about this 4th <em>Matrix<\/em> film back in September, and I&#8217;m happy to report that <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-pink-color\">I adored it<\/span><\/strong> for unexpected reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s funny, and self-aware, and makes jokes about being forced to make a 4th film in a franchise by Warner Bros &#8211; yes, all that.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I saw it in theaters, and <strong>it looked great<\/strong>.  (And then I watched it again online, and it STILL looked great.)  <em>It is action packed! The effects are pretty!  The story lines about re-evaluating life&#8217;s meaning and struggling with middle age are relevant!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pleasant surprise, something I hadn&#8217;t realized during filming here in San Francisco, was how wild it is to see the setting of your real life used in a film.  Sure, I often enjoy seeing scenes from San Francisco in films, but this was <em>different<\/em>.  This was very specific.   <em>SO specific<\/em>.  <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-pink-color\">A building where I worked for 10 years is a settling for key scenes in the film.<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-pink-color\"> The coffee shop meetings and fights were set there.  The top of the building serves as a backdrop in other scenes.  And nearly all of the chase scenes and outdoor night scenes were filmed on the surrounding blocks, where I have walked (and shopped, and dined, and caffeinated) countless times.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even some of the later scenes, where the protagonists flee into other buildings, felt eerily familiar, because<span class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-pink-color\"> I have been in those buildings, too!<\/span>  My second viewing required sending time stamps and photos of filming locales that I&#8217;d walked past just days before to a friend, so he could see what the doors in the lobby scene looked like from the other side&#8230;  Plus time stamps of when our current mayor has her cameo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nNpvWBuTfrc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>I know it wasn&#8217;t as big a blockbuster as the first one, but <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-pink-color\">the film is still a treat for hardcore fans<\/span><\/strong> <em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color\">(yes, I own the prior 3 films; yes, I&#8217;ve seen the first film more times than is reasonable)<\/span><\/em> who were interested in how people managed to recover after events in this world after the ending of the prior trilogy, and anyone who has worked in the area north of Montgomery Street BART!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh! So, I mentioned how excited I was about this 4th Matrix film back in September, and I&#8217;m happy to report that I adored it for unexpected reasons. Yes, it&#8217;s funny, and self-aware, and makes jokes about being forced to make a 4th film in a franchise by Warner Bros &#8211; yes, all that. Yes, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2022\/01\/29\/film-the-matrix-resurrections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Film: The Matrix Resurrections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}