The trans metaphor is glaringly obvious if you're in the know and completely invisible when you're not. It's honestly a masterwork of subtle queer coding. Originally, they wanted to introduce a character who has different genders inside and outside of the matrix, but the producers shut that down. What the producers missed is that the red pill looks exactly like estrogen pills looked back then, that there's entire scenes that are nothing but very clear metaphors for getting your egg cracked, experiencing gender euphoria or practicing resistance against misgendering and deadnaming, that the entire romance between Trinity and always smoothly shaved Neo used the stereotypical visual grammar of lesbian romance cinema with all these lingering shots of well-toned women's shoulders, oh and also that Lily Wachowsky was already out to her wife and hormonally transitioning back then.
It's honestly hillarious that chuds do not only completely miss all of that, but call each other estrogen pilled as a compliment every single day. :trans-uno:
:based-department: I love the movie, even more so now that I know all this about it, so cool.
It was all over philosophy classes back then, and it doesn't surprise me. I was deep in my egg back then, i didn't understand any of this stuff as the Wachowskys intended it. The trans stuff is written in a way that you only get when you've been through those phases of coming out yourself, or when you've been told what it means. Because it doesn't use any of the usual trans metaphors that would be about physical metamorphosis and shapeshifting, about becoming somebody else or being seen as somebody else or always having been somebody else and then physically changing into that true self. Instead, it's probably the first trans story that sticks entirely to the mental aspect of transitioning, to how that means to free yourself from lies you've been told all your life and realize what's actually going on. And when you talk about transness like that, when you keep it just to these moments of self-realization and cracking the code and finally shaking off false consciousness and seeing through the bs, that translates so well to other things that people have no problem reading all kinds of stuff into it. And it works perfectly well as a musing on philosophy, it works perfectly well as a story about revolution, it works perfectly well as the beats of an action flick, it just also happens to completely capture the mood of discovering you're trans, moving out of your eggshell and to start experimenting. Because that is a deeply revolutionary act as well.
used the stereotypical visual grammar of lesbian romance cinema with all these lingering shots of well-toned women’s shoulders
Is it just me or was 90s and early 2000s action cinema all about women with toned back and shoulder muscles?
I'm not complaining :crush:
introduce a character who has different genders inside and outside of the matrix
I want to see a George Lucas-style director's cut with this and the robots using human brains for computing power.
The studio executives changing the humans into batteries is still one of the goofiest changes. At least in the recent sequel they've updated that part.
I like how almost everyone in the shipcrew isn't a cishet white dude and the token cishet white dude turned out to be the traitor lol
There's a theory that the traitor is supposed to be Buck Angel, who outed Lily Wachoswky against her will and is just a general truscum piece of shit and persona non grata in the trans community. And he does look kinda like Buck Angel, but the film was made before he outed Lily.
Damn, he does look like Buck Angel. I guess it's an unfortunate case of life imitating art.
9/11 was an occult ritual to destroy gender
ah yes, the famous twin towers of gender
:inshallah: the genders have been freed, the binary seal has been unbound, the ritual is complete
The towers? Phallic. But the planes? Also phallic? By itself, good. But when one hits the other, the resulting vulvic hole leads to the immediate destruction of one phallus, and the eventual destruction of the other, leaving no more gender
The main body of the memorial represents the tower and the planussy that was carved so beautifully into it. There was no second tower, it was actually a hologram the whole time.
The metal drip represents the steel beams that got melted by the jet fuel.
The names at the bottom are children killed by the US military in countries that the attackers were not from.
It's a friggin vajayjay along with the clit and people still don't think 9/11 wasn't an occult ritual to destroy gender!!
When Biden said there were “at least 3” genders, he was subtly hinting at WTC7 👁
Reactionaries and not understanding the meaning behind The Matrix and They Live, name a more iconic duo.
Reactionaries missing the point of American Psycho and Fight Club?
If I see one more Patrick Bateman omg he's just like me fr fr :internet-delenda-est:
I bet they don't even have any video tapes to return smdh :disgost:
These MFs think that it really is hip to be square, smdh my dick head :huey-lewis:
9/11 was an occult ritual to destroy gender
this is technically not true
It was actually an occult promotion for Gender 2: Electric Boogaloo
I mean, a massive destruction of 2 things could be a metaphor for abolition of gender binary in a fictional story. But this the dumbest shit I have heard
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Carpenter had to come out on twitter and publicly tell the moron antisemite chuds that the movie was about Reaganite 80's america and not the jews.
The secret defenders of The Two True Genders should have built a more defensible position then
They're obsessed with phallic objects, that's why they keep building really tall, narrow towers
Yeah, but the Secret Defenders of the Two True Genders didn't have anything to do with that
They're afeared of buttholes
That building is just a Military-Industrial anus
Come onnnn. The war on terror sucked up all of the USA's political oxygen for about seven years. If it weren't for 9/11, the battle to destroy gender could have been seven years further ahead.
I suppose posting 4chan posts is cheating when it comes to the "fucking nonsense-o-meter".
No, 9/11 was the failure of McDonald’s occult ritual to align the chakras of the entire world at once and create world peace. They did it… and it failed.
Yeah neo is the world's only mtm trans person. Obviously the chuds don't see the trans metaphor because they're too dumb to see metaphor
The signs were obvious: Osama bin Laden? Osama been Laden. Laden was Osama's deadname. We were all just too blind to see.
"Only dogs hear the dogwhistle"
"Everything is an attempt to steal my privilege from me! They're out for revenge!"
