Four Ways of Looking at Speed Racer

Speed Racer is a simple concept picture about futuristic elevator car which producer / director team the Wachowskis have managed to make almost as complicated as their Matrix trilogy . New clips from the movie released yesterday take us deeply inside the visually bizarre world the Wachowskis built for this film , and what ’s becoming obvious is that Speed Racer is n’t just CGI - for - CGI’s - saki . We ’ve set out some clips that will make you think about Speed Racer in a whole new way .

In this scene , where Speed and his pals race through a geometrically - impossible “ internal-combustion engine mickle , ” it ’s cleared we ’re inside an hokey human race where humans and car have become similar . Watching Speed and his auto is like see the movie Tron from the point of view of one of the programs . light dance everywhere , nobody obeys the laws of physics , and the cutsey thrill of it cue me of Mario Kart 64 . This flick captures the fun of racing videogames well than many racing games themselves do .

There ’s a form of Walt Disney - sketch surrealism here : every persona is a caricature , and world has been pared down to one astonishing idea , which is that Nascar has become both beautiful and the very center of all culture . I love the way speeding does something visually incomprehensible with his auto ( going behind a guy to make him swerve or something ? ) that the announcer greets with the cry , “ corking move ! ”

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Speed ’s racecar work - family is like something out of the fifties , the 1970s , and the 2000s ; meanwhile , the scene itself is a mashup of Grease and Power Puff Girls . What is happening here ? What tenner is it ? Who has the freakin heart to make a muscular , tough - guy thing like a race railroad car out of shiny white and pretty , pyrotechnical fizz ? You have to be seriously badass to do that , and the Wachowskis rip it off with glammy zeal .

Ninjas make everything better , as you could see in this vista where the guy being attacked by the ninja knows that first he should put a glistening scarf over his face to do his anti - ninja moves . When I saw this fighting , I was at last sell on the movie . This really is The Matrix , except with a sense of humor this prison term around .

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