Lilly Wachowski, who co-directed the Matrix films with her sister, Lana, has confirmed that they should be read as allegories for the transgender narrative. Subsequent to the films’ release, both sisters came out as trans – Lilly in 2012 and Lana in 2016 – and some fans have since identified apparent resonances for the experience in the movies.
Was this part of your paid gender series?
Theories about the film have centred around the idea that the unease Keanu Reeves’s character, Neo, feels – described as “a splinter in your mind” – represents a type of gender dysphoria. Therefore, the red pill he takes to see reality as it is could be seen as a hormone tablet.
90s midcult. I rather watch something great like Ghost in the Shell then. 🤔
charlotteckidd - wow your dad and I used to love these films and there was not the language in those days - you should read and watch the YouTube , then watch the films xx
This is really dangerous. I don't know what has happened to them know but the film was nothing to do with transgender (obviously). The biggest influence on The Matrix is William Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer. Ghost in a shell was also a big influence.
I can't see it. If both say it is, I will believe it, but it sounds like a stretch.
Taking the red pill means something different to a massive amount of people.
Style over substance to me but I know lots of people who are really into it.Which is fine.
I think it was a mental game changer for many people and many different reasons. I was just 16 and it made me get out of the jehovas witnesses...thanks for that!
Literally no one was mentioning it as a trans metaphor when it came out. Revisionist.
Gosh there are a lot of shitty terf goblins in the replies to this
So this film is now an allegory for some mysterious innate concept called 'gender'. Right, lovely, you're welcome to your 'gender'. Most of the rest of us couldn't give a flying f**k.
Yes, both the directors are now trans, and retrospectively you can say this, but I don’t think there’s anything in the film that supports it. There was a cut element about the character Switch being male in the real world and female in the matrix - but it’s not in the film.
Life just seems to be getting more complicated...no wonder our kids are so confused.
Sad to see people revising ones own history and reality.
I don't get it. What trans metaphor Neo remained Neo, Morpheus remained Morpheus 🤷🏽♀️
🤮well, nope
Suddenly some of the most celebrated films of the 90s are bad because some men have very fragile manhoods 😂
It was a fairly average action film with lots of pseudo gnosticism nabbed from comic books..... However it identified as a philosophical masterpiece, so that's OK then
Good grief!
Peak pseud
LGBTHM Explain to me what that is exactly 🧐
How is this news ?
It really was a shit film though - I watched on a recommendation, and kept thinking to myself 'when is it going to get better'? It never did.
Explains how poor the films were the longer they went on...
You make bad movies
Too much ..ride a wave
Started with promise, looked progressive but turned out to be yet another insulting trope? Seems fair.
👍😉
State of them 😂
I'm glad film recognised as trans metaphor? Is that a sentence?
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