Seen enough marvel shlock, want something that isn't subversive within a system but directly fights against it and loudly
Keep your negative takes out please I've had it with the irony poisoned doomerism of late
Seen enough marvel shlock, want something that isn't subversive within a system but directly fights against it and loudly
Keep your negative takes out please I've had it with the irony poisoned doomerism of late
The Matrix. Yeah the system is sorta personified by Hugo Weaving, but in the context of the film it's clear that he's just an enforcer and that what the free humans are actually at war with is the much larger system of control. The first two sequels kind of lose focus on this theme, focusing more on the love story and even going so far as to personify the system at a big robot face, but the most recent one goes all in on the metaphor with Neo's revolutionary message getting coopted and commodified by the system as a form of self preservation.
The Matrix is a movie where the heroes are terrorists who shoot cops and feds and blow up buildings. It's awesome.
I'd argue the sequels focus just as much on that theme, and are largely concerned with the idea that things which on the surface can seem to be subversive and challenging toward that system of control can actually be unwitting reinforcements of the system as controlled opposition.