10 Recent Movie Scenes Everyone Misunderstood
No, that wasn't a Bane Easter egg in The Batman.
The beauty of cinema, as with all art, is how differently we can all interpret it, bringing our own distinct experiences to the table which colour how we view a movie.
Healthy debate about a film is a wonderful thing, though there are also cases where a large subset of viewers simply get the wrong end of the stick - a stick that's not as ambiguous or up-for-debate as they might think.
These 10 recent movie scenes all divided and polarised audiences who couldn't quite agree on what they was actually saying, even though there's clearly one answer that stands tall among the rest as the right one.
From apparently "sequel-baiting" endings that are actually doing nothing of the sort, to symbolic imagery that isn't supposed to be taken seriously, and characters who aren't quite as dead as you might assume, these 10 movie scenes were all wildly misinterpreted by many.
That's certainly not to say you're stupid if you misunderstood any of these scenes - a lot of people did, and given the techniques the filmmakers employed in each case, it's easy to appreciate why...
10. The Ending Doesn't Set Up A Sequel - The Matrix Resurrections
The Matrix Resurrections concludes with Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) discovering her own One-like abilities and paying a visit to the villainous Analyst (Neil Patrick Harris) along with Neo (Keanu Reeves).
They inform him the Analyst that, as the Matrix's ultimate power couple, they're going to rebuild it in their own image, and promptly fly off into the sky together. The End.
Many viewers quite understandably assumed that the ending was sequel bait intended to launch a new trilogy of Matrix films, even if that couldn't be further from the truth.
While doing press for the film, Lana Wachowski was adamant that this will be her final Matrix film, and the movie itself not-so-subtly implies that she only came back to make it because Warner Bros. was going to reboot it without her otherwise.
This was Lana's last big blockbuster swing by the looks of it and certainly where the Matrix is concerned, and given that Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves have made their loyalty to the Wachowskis clear, it's extremely difficult to believe they'd return without the sisters being involved.
Though it's at least easy to understand why some felt Resurrections' ending was teeing up more movies with Trinity and Neo, the best you can hope for is a reboot sometime in the future. At least it's already got the perfect title - The Matrix Rebooted.