Wednesday, September 17, 2008

speed racer

I rented & watched it yesterday. I enjoyed it, but I understand why the critical forum gave it a lukewarm reception. There's an expectation coming into a Wachowski flick, audiences want raw, subversive & for all intensive purposes "adult". The sibling auteurs this time around chose to honor the source-material & tame their trademark subterranean political commentary. In time, this integration & compromise the Wachowskis made in the stylization of Speed Racer will be imitated & improved on the same way The Matrix Trilogy trickled into popular cinema stylings. But, again, this brings to light the selfish double-standard that the critical circle suffers from. They've lost the ability to empathize with cinema made for a youth's eye's perspective.

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