too many things that they had all the source material to handle well and just straight punted on
@aescling you don’t have to agree :P
@aescling oh?
@aescling IF you accept that the matrix is a metaphor for the american mass media landscape, then i feel like “the audience is Neo” follows as a matter of course
@aescling is the backstory of the matrix not literally that the machines fed everyone 90's nostalgia in an effort to quell revolution???
@aescling * pleasant, but not too pleasant, with moments of spectacle
@aescling you can bend this media landscape to your wishes once you stop accepting it on the terms in which it was handed to you??
@aescling people were rioting against the american dream so the structures of power invented pleasant media for them to consume to make them orderly and easy to control??
@aescling i feel like “the matrix is the american cinemetropolis” is not that controversial of a take??
@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
@aescling but we are all the Special Prophecy Dudes to our own personal Matrixes?
if i started to call myself trevor i would not be doing so ignorant of how that name is typically gendered
for some people with heavily gendered names, in fact, i think the anomaly might be part of the point
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