peni is treated like trash, aunt may is treated like trash, gwen is made way less mature, just real rough times for all the female characters
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?
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