Keanu Reaves, you have only one voice, but I know it well, and it works for you in the roles you’re picked for. This was a good movie, I liked it, but maybe you should see what others think. The whole animation thing was pretty sweet. It reminded me a lot of the art style of the cartoon Æon Flux and also a couple of the Animatrix. Uhm… also, it was pretty funny, there are at least two quite humorous scenes where they are speaking technical jargon in convincingly correct but obviously wrong ways.

There’s a good monologue toward the end which explains the movie title and seems to ask the question, “Does an outside observer see into me, and if so, does it see clearly or darkly?” The title implies that the answer is darkly, but the movie itself I think shirks the options and says, “Neither, it has its own objectives and the thing you think is a big deal isn’t really all that important in the grand scheme”, which is supported by one of the ending scenes where they are discussing the importance of sacrifice, and how the sacrifices made are so huge to us now but become mere footnotes in history, and are ultimately important in the big scheme but the pain experienced won’t be remembered. It’s a bleak view, if I’m interpreting correctly, which I may not be.

Has anyone else seen it? What did you think?

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