What colour pill should we expect from the next Matrix?
The phenomenal success of The Matrix isn’t down to its sleekness or all of its rich allegory. It worked because struck some of the deepest chords of the 1990s: Civilization peaking, the emerging internet, postwar ennui, hating your parents’ lives and going rogue. The Matrix took all these themes, wired them into a single world — and smashed it. It’s the ultimate Gen X film. How do you recreate that in 2021?
The phenomenal success of The Matrix isn’t down to its sleekness or all of its rich allegory. It worked because struck some of the deepest chords of the 1990s: Civilization peaking, the emerging internet, postwar ennui, hating your parents’ lives and going rogue. The Matrix took all these themes, wired them into a single world — and smashed it. It’s the ultimate Gen X film. How do you recreate that in 2021?
The Matrix (1999) has been one of my favourite movies since before I even watched it. The trailer was on a VHS tape I’d been given and it was just about the most mystifying and fascinating few minutes 11-year-old Erik had ever seen.
There was a kind of grand drama to the trailer: a sense that once what the Matrix was, you could never go back to your ordinary life, and that it was something that could never be explained within the confines of language.
