> Then thereâs the Analyst, which is where the film almost locks in. Naming the villain âthe Analystâ instead of a therapist is not an accident, and itâs one of the smartest choices in the movie. This is explicitly Freudian territory. Sublimation, repression, desire as a power source. Neil Patrick Harris plays him as a smug, gaslighting authority figure who insists reality is a pathology. Itâs stylish, creepy, and completely against type for Matrix villains, which makes it work.
> The idea that Neo and Trinity produce more energy through lack is excellent. Keeping them close but never together is both emotionally cruel and thematically sharp. Desire as a battery. Capitalism perfected. This is where the film should have slowed down and trusted itself.
> Instead, it rushes again. Like so many of its ideas, the Analystâs philosophy is introduced, gestured at, and then abandoned before it can actually land. Itâs all implication, no payoff. The movie feels like it was designed to frustrate its own audience on purpose, which is arguably very meta and also deeply annoying.
