On: Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of rea...

[coolThingsFirst]

What did you understand from the matrix?

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Software devs will do anything to escape their existence.

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Kung fu

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Show me.

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This one's a deep rabbit hole: https://.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/11vfp8p/npwas_the_matr...

TLDR: The Wachowskis who wrote and directed the film, later became trans. There's a lot of closet trans themes hidden in the film (closet gays/lesbians can relate as well).

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The rabbit hole goes even deeper than that:

https://twitter.com/genericeddie/status/1659081857793769472

https://web.archive.org/web/20060115061830/http://www.rollin...

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The Matrix is like a modern religion