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#LIDD With Matrix Generation (Arte), go down the white rabbit hole


In the morning, the editorial team offers you Intelligent Sunday Links to start the day off right. The goal is to share with you the team’s and/or the community’s findings. We will publish a recap on Sunday, with other LIDDs.

Arte Cinéma invites us to dive into the film by the Wachowski sisters, whose first opus was released in 1999… before the “year 2000 bug,” which never happened. A quarter of a century later (ouch, how old…), Arte wonders “ what is the real message of the matrix movie ” what if ” a cult work can escape reinterpretation by its audience “.

From cyberpunk to Japanese anime, Hong Kong cinema and comics, this film with diverse inspirations and rock sounds, which enjoyed immediate critical and commercial success, became an absolute reference in popular culture. So much so that its progressive message was hijacked by the far right and conspiracy movements. “.

You have 53 minutes to spare? Here’s how to spend them usefully. This documentary is directed by Frenchman Benjamin Clavel.

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