These party people are supposed to be the ragtag remnants of humanity, which works okay, but like the Rebel Alliance all having uniforms in Star Wars, there's a uniformity to the fashion sense of these ravers that just makes the whole scene. The Wachowskis briefly take the camera in close to show us the faces of a few characters we know who are bumping and grinding (look, there's Link and his wife Zee!), but for the most part this scene is memorable because it's mostly just abs and not faces of dancers, and the fashion of all these people is somewhere between Aladdin's vest and what you imagine rich people dress like in Mad Max. The crowd shots really do convince you this is the last of humanity, all gathered together. These two aspects make this six minutes seem much longer than it really is. It's about six minutes if and only if you count Morpheus' speech and the fact that Trinity and Neo (the main characters of the movie) are not at the rave, but, instead, having sex in a different cavernous room elsewhere. We'll talk about the real purpose of the rave scene in a moment, but the scene is tricky because though it's fairly short, it feels longer.
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(Note, this scene began with one of the high councilors of Zion describing what is happening as a "prayer." Meaning, the way a prayer service was concluded in this movie is with a giant rave.) Plus, the crowd was seemingly primed for this party anyway, because there are a ton of dudes with giant drums just waiting to get the "pump the jam" signal from Morpheus. And because Morpheus has the booming voice of Laurence Fishburne, this works. In the cavernous underground human city of Zion, Morpheus tells a Coachella-sized crowd of people that dangerous Terminator-style machines are advancing on the last human colony, and instead of everyone freaking out, they all listen attentively, because Morpheus just tells them it's time to party. Here's the part in the Wikipedia summary of the plot of The Matrix Reloaded, which should contain at least a mention of the rave scene: "In Zion, Morpheus announces the news of the advancing machines to the people." So let's talk about Wikipedia pages and understatements and how maybe compressed summaries like the summary for The Matrix Reloaded are like the Matrix IRL because this summary totally robs us of a "real" experience. None of this stuff was as divisive as the rave in the human city of Zion where Morpheus, Link, and about 5,000 extras who seem great for a Dove soap commercial really cut loose.ĭepending on how you look at it, the mass rave scene in The Matrix Reloaded is either the goofiest WTF moment in a sci-fi movie ever - or the most genius. Theories about Neo's purpose and the meaning of whatever the Architect said at the end? Nah. You won't find a more than a passing mention of the most insane scene from The Matrix Reloaded in a Wikipedia summary, which is nuts because, in 2003, it was the only scene that people really argued about.
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