The Wachowskis- Sense8 First Season

The Wachowskis- Sense8 First Season

“We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.”

Lana Wachowski

By: Ghost Writer

The Wachowski siblings deserve a standing ovation for their enormous ambition, courageously recognizing the confining limitations of cinema that they once cherished and that in chance cherished them culminating on the triumphant Matrix trilogy, the Wachowskis instinctively understood that cinema was restrictive in time matters and they seek for a new space to express their new idea, a mammoth combination of drama, action, science fiction and metaphysics, one that decidedly needed more room to breathe and that was decided to come to life in the way of a series produced on Netflix.

Yes, Sense8 is quite a mess, a complicated statement and a hard to follow storyline combining an amazing array of elements, is obvious that the Wachowskis dared to grab many elements available on world cinema and the TV universe, also of course combined with a more complex almost literary form as I can see a certain relationship with the world of graphic novels and books, some of you may remember Generation A, written by the incredible Douglas Coupland, a talented guy who created a couple of great books, this one specially about a group characters disseminated all over the world and connected by the stung of a bee, but the Wachowskis are not so much into bees as they are on metaphysics, and precisely that's what Sense8 is about, as it depicts the story of 8 characters living in different parts of the world, interconnected by out if body experiences and developing a solidary attitude towards each other, helping the others and themselves in the process.

The amazing interlocking stories go from sophisticated violent action taking place within the German mafia, which the Wachowskis are obviously genius at, revenge martial art sequences developed in South Korea, sort of like the stuff that left you mouth open in Old Boy, U.S. police drama in Chiraq (Chicago), this is perhaps the series weakest point, mysterious computing hackers suspense with a touch of transgender post modernism, African violent urban drama in crowded Kenya, Indian Bollywood choreographic storylines of intolerance and exclusion, to Mexican soap operas about false machismo and Icelandic enigmatic fairy tales, yes, all that rolled into one single piece of mind shaking storytelling.

I don't know how all this complicated storytelling will end, it was kind of exhausting watching the vertiginous first season and its deceptive last chapter, but we end up again with limitations, and the fact that the intricate storyline developing even more in the next season, as thanks to the series format, the sky is the limit for the Wachowskis boundless imagination, and what we can expect is more intellectual depth, crazy metaphysics and the wild characters the Wachowskis have created dancing in front of us in a global ballet.