RECOMMENDED: Movie Collection. “Matrix Trilogy.”

“Matrix Trilogy.” The Matrix, 1999; The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, both 2003. I am not interested with 2001’s The Matrix Resurrections. The first three were written and directed by The Wachowskis or the trans women sisters Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski. (“Resurrections” was directed by Lana.)

       “The Matrix” is a cyberpunk story of the technological fall of humanity, in which the creation of artificial intelligence led the way to a race of self-aware machines that imprisoned mankind in a virtual reality system to be farmed as a power source. The VR system is The Matrix.

       Year 2003 seems like three years ago but that’d be almost two decades ago. And so The Matrix’s truths has evolved really big time, and how! The resounding impact of comp tech to humanity (in the present time) amplifies the credence or veracity of Alvin Toffler’s words in 1970: “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” How true?

       These Matrix guys have become more real: Neo (Keanu Reeves), Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) who battled odds to free humanity from its self-induced idiocy, LOL! Now we know who Agent Smith is, or the Agent Smiths. Though we can’t really tell if they are Left or Right, or just heckling. 

       Meanwhile, beyond ruminations on philosophy, religion, mythology, and spirituality, “The Matrix” gave us kickass Hong Kong styled martial arts c/o Yuen Woo-Ping. As fight coordinator, he also choreographed fight scenes in Quentin Tarantino's “Kill Bill.” You dig The Bride’s duel with Gogo Yubari? So check out “The Matrix.” I keep my DVD collection. 🎬🎭🎬

Visual: Collider.