Reckoning With The Matrix’s Gun ProblemThe film’s notorious massacre scene showed slaughter as squad walk, a violation of the unwritten adventure-movie rule not to make murder look heroic.
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What We Can Learn About Gender From The MatrixTrans women have claimed it as an allegory for gender transition since at least 2012. But allegorically is the least interesting way to read anything.
How The Matrix Got MadeAs we approach the film’s 20th anniversary, here’s a timeline of how the pop-culture phenomenon came to be, and what happened next.
The Matrix Built Our Reality-Denying WorldIt gave all of us — including Alex Jones, flat-earthers, lizard-people conspiracists, even Rachel Maddow — a new way to see (or not see) everything.