How The Matrix Got MadeWith the 25th anniversary of The Matrix, here’s a timeline of how the franchise and pop-culture phenomenon came to be, and what happened next.
ByKeith Phipps
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The 17 Best Robot Movies of All TimeEver since the early years of cinema — even before the term “robot” was coined, in fact — the movies have been obsessed with them.
Reckoning With The Matrix’s Gun ProblemThe film’s notorious massacre scene showed slaughter as squad walk, a violation of the unwritten adventure-movie rule not to make murder look heroic.
ByAlan Scherstuhl
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What We Can Learn About Gender From The MatrixTrans women have claimed it as an allegory for gender transition since at least 2012. But allegorically is the least interesting way to read anything.
The Matrix Built Our Reality-Denying WorldIt gave all of us — including Alex Jones, flat-earthers, lizard-people conspiracists, even Rachel Maddow — a new way to see (or not see) everything.