Yeah, it just works on all these levels. It does a great job at being a late 90s silly action film, it works as a "what if we're all like, uh, brains in a jar?" stoner philosophy diatribe, it makes you want to fight back against the system when that track by RATM comes on and then you come back to the movie 20 years later, after you've figured out you're trans, and realize you know that exact mood when Neo looks up at Trinity and says "I know Kung Fu!" because that's just exactly what the really empowering kind of gender euphoria feels like. That sensation of everything being possible just because you've figured out the biggest secret in your life.
Yeah, it just works on all these levels. It does a great job at being a late 90s silly action film, it works as a "what if we're all like, uh, brains in a jar?" stoner philosophy diatribe, it makes you want to fight back against the system when that track by RATM comes on and then you come back to the movie 20 years later, after you've figured out you're trans, and realize you know that exact mood when Neo looks up at Trinity and says "I know Kung Fu!" because that's just exactly what the really empowering kind of gender euphoria feels like. That sensation of everything being possible just because you've figured out the biggest secret in your life.