608: A Centaur, Only for Cars

Published: April 1, 2022, 4:30 p.m.

b'Fire up your Bernoulli Conversionator and check your trunk for stowaways, because we\\u2019re entering the Wachowski sisters\\u2019 candy-colored 2008 road rally through the Uncanny Valley, \\u201cSpeed Racer.\\u201d It\\u2019s an eye-searing acid trip of a movie, with groundbreaking storytelling, an earnest heart, and a curious void at its center. (There is also a chimp.) We\\u2019ll discuss how this film fits into the Wachowskis\\u2019 canon, the supporting character whose story is way more interesting than the lead\\u201a and the only other big-budget film since that has dared to get this stylistically weird.'