Neo-noir noir. The film directors knowingly refer to 'classic noir' in the use of tilted camera angles, interplay of light and shadows, unbalanced framing; blurring of the lines between good and bad and right and wrong, and a motif of revenge, paranoia, and alienation, among other sensibilities. The term "neo-noir" is a contraction of the phrase "new film noir", using the Greek prefix for the word "new" rendered as "neo" (from the Greek "neo"). "Noir", when used as an isolated term in film theory and critique, is a short form reference to "film noir". As a neologism, neo-noir is defined by
Neo (The Matrix) seems to others as a suicidal journey to the Machine City. Meanwhile, Captain Roland and the "Nebuchadnezzar"'s surviving crew of Link and Morpheus in the hovercraft "Hammer/Mjolnir" return to Zion, which is now besieged and losing to the Machines. Neo and Trinity are ambushed by the stowaway Bane/Smith, who blinds Neo with an electric cable, but is killed when Neo discovers an ability to 'see' programs and Machines independently of his eyesight. Neo, with Trinity as pilot, guide the "Logos" past the Machine City's defenses, but in the effort the "Logos" crash-lands, and Trinity sustains fatal injuries and dies. Neo