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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.