The Matrix
Who has not seen The Matrix? Itâs the Gone with the Wind and Star Wars of our era, a phantasmagoria in black leather open to multiple readings that was already being described as mind-bending and complex before it even debuted. From this distance it all seems as clear as water â Mr Anderson (Keanu Reeves), a disaffected slacker/hacker is invited to visit another plane of awareness, from which vantage point he can see that the plane he once inhabited, what he thought of as the ârealâ world, is in fact a construct, assembled by a computer program. Strip away the program and in the real âreal worldâ humans are being grown in tanks … Read more