I'll always remember the time that, IIRC Lily, replied to a chain of Elon saying "take the red pill" and Ivanka Trump replying "taken" with "fuck both of you"
Switch was supposed to literally switch genders between the matrix/offline.
"And so we had the character of Switch, who was like, a character who would be, you know a man in the real world and then a woman in the Matrix, and, you know, that's both where our headspaces were."
I once had the idea that if they ever remake The Matrix (which I’m open to, even as a lifelong fan), Switch should be played by Matthew Daddario in the real world and his sister Alexandra Daddario inside the Matrix.
What do you think of this idea? :)
I came out in 2021 in MO and I won’t deny I did some deep soul searching on whether I wanted to with all the hate. But I decided it was better to be hated by bigots than to hate myself
Knowing about the Wachowskis sisters makes the trans metaphors a lot easier to notice. And then once you know the film can be a trans metaphor itself, it starts to have a lot more depth to it.
The culmination of Neo vs Agent Smith is Smith calling him Mr Anderson again, Neo asserting "My name is Neo", then jumping out of the way and letting Smith get hit by a train
Once you know the trans allegory it's almost painfully obvious. Now if only we all had a proverbial or literal train
Was pretty obvious like cypher wanting to forget everything because life was so grueling in the real world that he would rather have a peaceful Life in The Matrix again even though it's artificial.
I sorta get it. I didn't have the language to understand or express what I was feeling until much later, so I didn't pick up on the transness because I didn't get it yet. I just identified with the feeling that everything was wrong and nobody else seemed to be noticing.
So much this. I went through so much loss once I finally opened my eyes to the truth I had been running from. I sometimes think about what if's. What if I hadn't come out? What would I be doing today? Eating my mom's food, swimming in her pool, the Fourth of July fireworks parties I've missed,
My siblings, my nephew, my niece. My career, maybe I'd be a manager by now. My little house in Kansas, the value of which has increased to where I wouldn't be upside down on it today if I'd stayed instead of my ever-growing rent here in NH. But I absolutely wouldn't go back even if I could.
This is even predicted sort of by Agent Smith himself metaphorically being radicalized to fascism and violently turning others to his cause by making them uniform, literally!
When Neo defeated him in the first film, Smith understood what the Matrix was but drew all the wrong conclusions from it.
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"And so we had the character of Switch, who was like, a character who would be, you know a man in the real world and then a woman in the Matrix, and, you know, that's both where our headspaces were."
What do you think of this idea? :)
"I can't go back can I?"
"No, but if you could, would you?"
Thanks.
Off to read more!
https://bookshop.org/p/books/begin-transmission-the-trans-allegories-of-the-matrix-tilly-bridges/19861039?ean=9798887711256
Once you know the trans allegory it's almost painfully obvious. Now if only we all had a proverbial or literal train
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"It was not for me, so I will harm everyone for whom it is, leopards won't eat my face, I am sure"
“Because you have been down there, Neo. You know that road. You know exactly where it ends. And I know that's not where you want to be.”
After my egg cracked in 2020, I rewatched the film and could suddenly see all the allegory I’d missed for twenty years. It was mind-blowing.
When Neo defeated him in the first film, Smith understood what the Matrix was but drew all the wrong conclusions from it.