The Wachowski brothers (of
Matrix fame) capture the progressive edge of teen culture on film once again.
Speed Racer, based on the '60s Japanese animated TV series,
Mach GoGoGo is the newest movie from the makers of the
Matrix, Andy and Larry Wachowski.
The movie is progressive on several fronts. Though it's based on the '60s cartoon, it highlights contemporary questions about average people competing against the big corporation, "the inventor vs. the exploiter, the young athlete whose talents would be used and abused by the establishment." Visually, the film is so progressive the movie's designers had to develop terms for some of the techniques they used in making the film.
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is like nothing you've ever seen, and it is gorgeous: a totally designed environment that is a rich, cartoonish dream: non-stop Op art.
In typical postmodern style, the film defies modern movie rules including those involving actors, scenes and plot. The entire film exists in another Neverland, where standard narrative and visual decisions are dismissed as way too confining. Traditional movie plausibility is irrelevant in
Speed Racer's part retro, part nextro, all-artificial syntho world.
Speed Racer is being said to announce the arrival of the virtual movie.
Discussion QuestionsWhat hints might
Speed Racer give about communicating with youth culture?
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