The Matrix: Resurrection’s new trailer is much less about what we will anticipate from a return journey to the our on-line world of the Matrix, and extra about what it signifies that the whole lot seems to be so acquainted… with simply somewhat distinction.

Warner Bros. has launched one other cryptic new look at Lana Wachowski’s fabled return to the long-lasting Matrix saga, and whereas there’s not really all that a lot in the way in which of new footage from Resurrections in it, it’s an enchanting and cleverly fashionable approach to attract parallels with the tales that got here earlier than it. Oh, and Keanu Reeves stares at a cat… once more.

Familiar cyber-felines apart, it’s a reasonably slick and intriguing little factor. Interlacing moments from the brand new film with related sequences from the primary three movies don’t simply invite stylistic parallels between Resurrections and its predecessors however provides an enchanting narrative query too. It’s titled “Deja Vú” for good motive, because the trailer is punctuated by a modulated, repeating line of acquainted dialogue from Carrie Anne-Moss’ Trinity taken from the original film: “A deja vú is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.” Back within the unique Matrix, Trinity was explaining to Neo that the black cat he noticed stroll by previous them within the Lafayette Hotel was an indicator that the code of the Matrix itself was being re-written round them, indicating that the Agents had been on their tails.

But pulling it out to be used right here in Resurrections, particularly as we’re invited to attract on all these moments of familiarity throughout all 4 films has us questioning simply how a lot of what we’re going to see within the subsequent film depends on us having the ability to select moments and concepts that we’ve seen earlier than, and what it means to have them re-played within the Matrix all these years later. After all, Lana Wachowski does need us to look past the floor of the mirror mirrored again at us for Resurrections. How deep does the rabbit gap go?

We’ll discover out when The Matrix: Resurrections hits theaters and HBO Max December 22.

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