Neil deGrasse Tyson Presents: The Matrix
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Director: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
1999 / 136min / 35mm
Keanu Reeves’s cubicle drone/hacker Neo gets a rude awakening, discovering that the real world he knows is a shared hallucination and that humankind are being harvested for bioelectricity by their machine overlords. A watershed movie, not only for the popularization of Hong Kong “wire fu” fighting techniques imported by choreographer Yuen Woo-ping, but for the flexible red pill and blue pill metaphor it introduced, adopted by paranoiacs of all political affiliations.
“Are we in a simulation? Conceived and executed better than anything like it, before or since.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson
Distributor: Park Circus
Post-screening discussion with Neil deGrasse Tyson on Sunday, September 7th
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