there’s an entire paper out there laying out the Neo-is-trans reading of the film that unintentionally accidentally makes for a really depressing read of the ending, which it presents as a vision of trans liberation through Neo’s individual self-actualization. which like. bruh, Neo’s only able to do that because Neo’a a Special Prophecy Dude; what are the rest of us supposed to do?
@aescling but we are all the Special Prophecy Dudes to our own personal Matrixes?
@aescling Neo is a viewer standin; he is the special prophecy dude because the viewer IS in a privileged position with respect to the medium. that's the point
@Lady i’m not sure what to make of that reading
i also do not exactly see what supports the reading in the first place?
@aescling i feel like “the matrix is the american cinemetropolis” is not that controversial of a take??