The movie that gave all of us a new way to see (or reject) everything.
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We may talk about all those other movies.
But Morpheus was right.
In 2019, we are living in the Matrix.
Or, you know, maybe were not.
In an era when the presidents lawyer can go on TV and splutter, Truth isnt truth!
as if its something everyone should know, and endless speculative conversations proceed not from What is reality?
Its not that the film was prescient.
It didnt anticipate our world.
But it anticipated and probably created a new way of viewing that world.
To revisitThe Matrix20 years later is to make a jolting discovery almost immediately: Its not that complicated!
And only by knowing can he hope to be rescued from it.
Laurence Fishburnes Morpheus lays it all out.
The Matrix is everywhere.
Its all around us, he explains to Neo.
Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is.
You have to see it for yourself.
You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed.
You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland and I show you how deep the story goes.
for its era and, even more, for ours.
We live, today, in the anti-reality worldThe Matrixbuilt.
Before looking at that, though, its worth glancing back at the world that builtThe Matrix.
What is the Matrix?
The answer is out there, she says.
ButThe Matrixisnt just cleverly constructed out of spare parts.
This whole thing youve been watching?
It could be happening inourworld!
Even the Wachowskis may not have realized how much they were onto with that.
The following year brought the disputed presidential election; 9/11 happened ten months later.
With each event, the ranks of those who chose to believe in alt-reality swelled.
It was no great leap from there to Soros controls everything.
The Matrixis in every single Everything You Know About [X] Is Wrong story.
It is in the voguish Trump-era fun of talking about the darkest timeline.
UnlikeStar WarsorHarry Potteror any number of other beloved franchises,The Matrixinspires relatively little devotion to its actual content.
It was not an adventure or a lark but a manifesto.
Its adherents mined it for ideology and info, then discarded the husk.
