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You Can Feel It When You Go To Work, When You Go To Church, When You Pay Your Taxes.

On March 31, 1999, The Matrix was released upon the world. This amazing film blended the perfect combination of sci-fi, action, philosophy, and stunning imagery into a powerful and subversive thrill that nobody has been able to replicate.

I didn’t catch it while it was in the theater, but I VHS’d it like crazy in high school. It got my friends and me running on walls and ducking flying objects by bending backwards Neo-like.

The anti-authoritarian tone of the film is pretty obvious. Anyone who doesn’t get it needs to unplug.

The sequels were disappointing. But The Animatrix is definitely worth it for Matrix fans.

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2 Responses to “You Can Feel It When You Go To Work, When You Go To Church, When You Pay Your Taxes.”

  1. Soviet Onion Says:
    April 1st, 2009 at 6:18 am

    I wasn’t really political at the time, and I thought the movie was interesting primarily from a theological dimension. I had a Gnostic Christian friend who just raved about it for years on end, even the sequels.

  2. Jim Davidson Says:
    April 2nd, 2009 at 7:50 pm

    You might like an essay I wrote about the first film.

    http://indomitus.net/morpheus.html