The Matrix: Midlife Crisis

The Warner Bros. franchise shows its age—and ours

L.D. Burnett

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Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

Yesterday we watched The Matrix: Resurrections (2021), the most recent film in Warner Bros. multi-film franchise written and directed by the Wachowski sisters. Starring Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss as two humans “unplugged’ at different times from a “matrix” of mechanized placental pods that keep people alive in a state of…

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L.D. Burnett

Writer and historian from / in California’s Great Central Valley. Book, “Western Civilization: The History of an American Idea,” under contract w/ UNC Press.