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Rewatching THE MATRIX like everyone else and it's a lot less self-serious than I remember and than the imitators (like EQUILIBRIUM) that came after. The goo slide, the jelly street, a lot of elements are positively silly.On Internet Archive
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But you also notice that it's an incredibly solid and efficient script. Rich with foreshadowing and symbolism but flexible to a range of textual readings: the Matrix can be capitalist realism or patriarchy or cisnormativity.Permalink On Internet Archive
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There's a lot of small moments that feel quietly radical for 1999: Morpheus saying "...the enemy" as the film cuts to a cop; Morpheus (a Black man) telling Agent Smith (a white man in a suit) that "You all look the same to me."Permalink On Internet Archive