Resurrections' Ending Perfectly Fits One Of Matrix's Biggest Inspirations
The ending of The Matrix Resurrections perfectly matches the Alice in Wonderland inspirations of The Matrix franchise. Keanu Reeves returns as the Matrix-defying Neo in The Matrix Resurrections, now living the life of a video game designer with his old name of Thomas Anderson, and gradually awakening to the truth about the Matrix once more. In doing so, Neo also helps to restore the memory of his love, Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), who is also plugged back into the Matrix with the new identity of Tiffany.
After Neo and Trinity have fully regained their memories and Matrix-bending powers, with Trinity even gaining the ability to fly like Neo, the pair confront the Analyst (Neil Patrick Harris), revealing they will remain in the Matrix and remake it with their own shared vision. This syncs Resurrections up quite nicely with a line from Through The Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice in Wonderland, specifically the line "Life, what is it but a dream?" For The Matrix franchise, this is fittingly meta on several levels.
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The sci-fi action franchise ofThe Matrix movies has long been an existential journey, with the biggest question of all posited by Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne): "What is 'real'?" The Matrix itself might be a simulation of life on Earth before the war between man and machines, but it is certainly real for the programs and human minds inhabiting it. In a sense, the Matrix is both a dream and real, only tangibly existing in the brains of the humans plugged into it but a livable world within a world, nonetheless.
From the very beginning, Alice in Wonderland has been one of the major literary inspirations taken by the Wachowskis for The
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